Etsy Finds: Dressin' Up
I don't care if it's winter, summer, fall or spring: I'm a dress enthusiast through and through, no matter what the weather. Regardless of the style, dresses just make a more fashion forward statement than simply resorting to jeans and a t-shirt. Insert some flair into your wardrobe with a handmade or vintage …
Costume Ideas
Are you having a hard time figuring out what to be for Halloween? You could always go with Buttonhead's tattoo idea above! (Speaking of temporary tattoos, click here to see a selection.) Check out these items from Etsy sellers. You can collaborate with a talented Etsy artist if you're not up for making your own …
Etsy Finds: Un-Dead Can Dance
Being a Halloween baby, All Hallows Eve has always been my favorite holiday. What a perfect opportunity to masquerade as the living dead: Why dress as a sexy nurse when you can be a zombie nurse?! Going as a zombie "fill in the blank" is the easiest costume to transform into a new outfit for the rest of the year. I've …
Etsy Finds: Perfectly Purple Fairy Dress
Playing dress up? Looking for the perfect Halloween costume? If you have a little girl in your life that loves all things pink, frilly, and princess-like, the Perfectly Purple Fairy Dress by Frogprincesscouture might be just the thing for your little princess. Don't forget the hairpiece and a wand for the …
Etsy Finds: My So-Called Life Dress
"People are always saying you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster. Like you know what it is even. But every so often I'll have, like, a moment, where just being myself in my life right where I am is, like, enough." -Angela Chase In the late summer of 1994, I was uprooted from my easy …
Trends: Diana, Goddess of the Forest
The Roman trend has been all over New York this summer. Mix it with some natural, rustic pieces and transform yourself into the goddess of the woods and the hunt. It's the perfect way to wind down the summer, and you can even take it with you into fall if you add some light and natural sweatery layers. All you need …
Fresh Shops: vintagegreenpeas
I consider myself extremely lucky to have both a son and a daughter. While there are plenty of differences, there is one that I wasn't expecting at all : people LOVE to buy clothes for girls. My son was born first and plenty of friends sent us gifts; we expected fewer gifts when my daughter was born. Um, no. People …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: July 17, 2008
This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere is pretty photo intensive. What can I say? Photography can be fashionable, historical, stylish, thought-provoking, haute or gauche, and the blogosphere brings all of that and more to your RSS reader. Here's what I'm excited about this week... Getting …
Trends: BurdaStyle Meets Fairy Tale
This summer, against all odds, we at BurdaStyle have decided to relaunch the myth: the fairy is back in town. The Sibylle dress has been making waves within the BurdaStyle universe due to its relentlessly floaty behavior and the unmistakable magic about its hems. This sew-it-yourself dress pattern …
