I’m forever fighting with the temperature of my coffee. I like my hot coffee moderately warm, but the second it starts to really cool off it begins to taste stale to me. Yuck. For iced coffee, I only handle the ice slightly melting before it becomes another yuck. I’m picky, what can I say?

My affinity for having my coffee exactly the way that I want it causes problems in my day to day life. Hot coffee cools off? Gotta take a break and put it in the microwave. Ice coffee melts? Gotta take a break and run to grab another one. And since I may quite literally have coffee running through my veins instead of blood, I find myself taking a substantial amount of breaks… making my level of productivity non existent. Cause after I get my coffee I need to Myspace for a little…. Read More »

Let’s see. We have fashionable clothes for our dogs, stylish plugs for our ears, and cute cases for our cell phones. And finally, the day has come. We now have couture for our coffee cups, making our daily dose of caffeine yet another true accessory.

Cupcouture.com offers you “high fashion thermal sleeves for paper cups” – sassy alternatives to those old, boring, brown cardboard things. They’re insultated, resusable, and they range from 12 to 16 bucks a pop.

My personal favorite “cupcoat” is the Andy, inspired by Andy Warhol. Very funky. But there’s a wide selection of patterns and materials for every Coffee Fiend, from flowery to furry. And there’s even a selection for guys! Although, if your boyfriend is envious of your cupcoat, I would find a new boyfriend.

Are these things over the top? Yes. Unnecessary? Of course! But when it comes to couture, it always is. Cupcoats just make something already hot even, ahem, hauter.