Fashion Meets Fandom: Lane Kim

If you watch Gilmore Girls, you know that Lane Kim is one of the biggest rock music fans. Aside from a her love of music, she always wore a lot of really cute sweaters throughout the series from cardigans to pullovers. I love sweaters, they're soft and warm, perfect for the crisp fall weather and since Lane wore so many of them it was hard to choose just one for Fashion Meets Fandom. But I picked this one because I really love the print.

Characters Reading: Lane Kim and Rory Gilmore

Books are a great source for information which was why in the Gilmore Girls episode "Lorelai's First Cotillion", Lane Kim and Rory Gilmore were at the Stars Hollows Books store looking through books trying to find answers to their problems.

Trying to get a better understanding of her pregnancy, Lane was reading "What to Expect When Expecting" by Heidi Murkoff. She was already freaking out about being newly married and pregnant and the information in the book really wasn't making things better. Meanwhile Rory was trying to find information to help her reconnect intimately with her boyfriend Logan Huntzberger, who was spending a year in London working at one of his father's companies. After her friend Paris Geller told her to try phone sex, Rory was skimming through books such as "Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I" by Henry Miller to see if she can get a little inspiration.

I love these nerds, they're two of my favorite characters.

(Gilmore Girls season 7 episode 3 "Lorelai's First Cotillion")

Geek on a Budget: Four Money Saving Tips I Learned from Gilmore Girls

I think you can learn quite a few things from watching your favorite TV shows and movies such as home decor tips to money tips. And for this Geek on a Budget post, I noticed something interesting about how some of the Gilmore Girls characters deal with money. Here are the four things I learned:


1. Don't Order Take Out Food Daily

Throughout the series Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory either ordered take out food from the various places around Stars Hollow or got something to eat at Luke's Diner on a daily basis. That's a lot of money when you stop and think about it. I think the hard part for serial take out foodies will be breaking the convenience factor and cutting expenses by cooking a few meals at home throughout the week.

Did Gilmore Girls Fail to Give Lane Kim the Life She Deserved?

I was thinking about why I like Gilmore Girls character Lane Kim, she's one of my favorite characters, she's so cool and fun and had an extreme passion for music especially rock music. She went from listening to music and secretly building up her vast music collection (which she hid around her bedroom) to secretly learning to play the drums at the music store Sophie's Music to creating the band Hep Alien. If that's not following your passion then I don't know what is.

(Gilmore Girls season 3 promo)

However, I feel like things didn't go like they should have for her and if I could change one thing about the series is that Lane had not gotten married (and had children) so young and especially to Zack Van Gerbig. She should have had the opportunity to pursue her musical dreams and not just with her garage band. But the show failed her because she went from pursuing her dreams to having to put them on the backburner after she became a wife and mom. It's not that there is anything wrong with being a wife and mom but it felt like it was too soon for her character to be at this stage in her life without having the chance to have pursued her dreams.

I always thought she would have made an excellent music journalist/critic for two reasons: her extensive knowledge about music and her unending passion for it. She lived and breathed music and could talk about it for hours. I believed Lane would have been one of the best music critics and she would have loved traveling around attending concerts while also writing about all the things happening in the music industry from new artists and new music being released to appreciating the rock legends. As for her love life, I would like to think she either reconnected with Dave Rygalski or Henry Cho or simply met a guy who was most worthy of being with her instead of feeling like she settled for Zack.

I still haven't watched the Netflix revival miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life so I don't know if Lane returned to music or not. I just feel like she deserved so much better than never getting a chance to have achieved her dreams.