“Goodbye ugly boots, helloooo heels,” says my friend Heather. We are talking about the onset of spring-like weather, hopefully heralding the arrival of a season of pretty, diaphanous, sugar-spun days, and how we greet them sartorially, at least. Because these days will soon greet us with their cherry blossoms, daffodils and tulips all in a […]
Now that actress Natalie Portman’s vegan shoe line has gone extinct, er, belly up, what’s a vegan girl to do when she wants to look fashionable? And stay chic and comfy without feathers, fur, or fluffy, warm wool, spun silk or those toasty cashmere socks from The Forecast? Sure, it is easy to avoid fur, but […]
You would think there was a festival on Capitol Hill. With all of this snow going to turn the ground into squishy mud, and you look around and expect staid Yankee footwear, but you don’t get it for long. Stand on any street and you will see the utilitarian scuffed black boots with a bit […]
Nicole Thorne’s work as a fashion stylist is fixed behind glass and framed by the picture window of women’s consignment boutique, Clothes Encounters of a Second Kind. It’s always as current as the times, and always as pretty as, well, a picture. Thorne has been designing the window displays and other mannequin and wall displays […]
If you have ever liked collecting colored stones as a kid, moved up to Mood Rings and Secret Agent gadgets for the sleekness but the aps, admired jazzy cufflinks but wanted to forgo the shirt itself, or merely wanted to adorn yourself with a shot of color perfect and complete unto itself, you will find […]