What beats women who accessorize with minature dogs in Louis Vuitton or Chanel dog-carrying bags? Hands down: the fashion parrot.

I'm not sure if I witnessed an isolated incident, but I passed a sharply dressed couple on the street the other day -- an older man with a young, modelesque woman. She was perfectly coordinated in a modern emarald green and royal blue A-line dress, carrying a green and blue parrot in a small cylindrical green and blue wire bird cage. Maybe it was a parakeet. Whatever it was, it was a bird that matched her outfit, and it was definately on purpose.

Maybe she was a pirate?