The leaves are changing color, Pumpkin Spice Lattes are on sale, Halloween candy is front and center in the grocery stores… and yet the weather doesn’t quite feel like fall. How can you dress for the season and the warm temperature? Here are a few hints. Look for Light Fabrics During this time of year, your first instinct may be to reach for your chunkiest sweater or fleece-lined, plaid flannel. However, if you throw that on before the temperature lowers, you’re going to find yourself sweating all day long. Instead, build your early-fall wardrobe around pieces in lighter, more…
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How To Up Your Style Game: Accessorizing
It’s not hard to accessorize your outfits – you just need to know where to look, what to do and how to do it. There are so many choices of style to go for, and searching for influences is becoming easier and easier thanks to the internet. It’s not so much stealing a person’s fashion, but instead magpieing ideas for your own benefit. As the saying goes, imitation is the best form of flattery – and why try and reinvent the wheel? If you know something looks good and will suit what you’re going for, wear it. Jewellery There’s an…
Rainy Day Fashion From ShedRain Umbrellas
Most people in the northern hemisphere will get a lot of rain this Spring; between El Nino and regular spring weather, some of us have already been getting more than we could ever want. So, maybe it’s time to start thinking about our umbrellas as part of our fashion? My favorite umbrella was a bubble umbrella. We were visiting New York City, just walking around Manhattan, when it started raining and wouldn’t let up. Where I lived before, Portland, no one really used umbrellas. It was either a hood or nothing or people would make you feel like a tourist, however, now that…
Shammane Watches – Fashionable Parisian Smart Watches
A big problem with smart watches, as mentioned by the new startup, Shammane, is that they’re just not good looking watches. They’re often techie looking, hard edges, uncomfortable bands and generally eye sores – I agree, which is why I haven’t even considered getting one. That is until Shammane watches did something about it. Shammane is a fashion smart watch company currently in its funding stages, perfect if you want to get one of the first Shammane watches on the market at a huge discount. Their watches were meticulously designed by fashion minded people, who also care about how the…
The Hat Hypothesis – Improve an outfit with a hat!
Here’a few tips on how to improve an outfit with a hat! Hi everyone! How are you? So there I was at the movies the other day when I reached an interesting conclusion: any outfit can be improved by adding the right hat. Sounds basic, right? It’s fashion 101, but at the same time, hats are not the most popular…
Nectar Sunglasses – Retro Originality, Modern Style
I’m sort of addicted to sunglasses as you may have noticed, and I love the original and /or retro styles when I can get them. I’ve been sporting some vintage ‘big eyed’ pink sunnies from the 80s for much of the summer, but the visibility in them is pretty terrible. They’re excellent for covering up tired eyes but not for a whole lot more, so when I got my new Nectar ‘Drift’ sunglasses I was pretty stoked! Mine have a special kind of sunburst coated lens, rarely seen on anything but cheesy gas station glasses that people going out on boats for the day have…
KorBáta Bows and Ties, Guatemalan Flare that Cares
Korbáta is a new company making gorgeous, skillfully crafted, hand woven ties and bows like no other. Not only do they make beautifully colorful pieces, but they do it with a conscious, benefiting the economy and lives of people in their family’s home country of Guatemala. KorBáta Guatemalan ties and bow ties are definitely made for the 21st century man. Made from colorful cotton, each piece holds unique characteristics – Colorful and bright, with original patterns to express the unique individualism of the 21st century man. We need more companies like Korbata who care about the environment and world economy as much…
Camera Straps for the Cool Kids
Cool camera straps can be really hard to come by so when I heard about 30poulets, I was intrigued! I myself have a standard “Pentax” camera strap and often feel like an idiot (still glad it’s not canon). The idea for 30poulets camera straps came when the creator was living in Paris, 30poulets noticed all these tourists with their huge cameras started looking all the same. With the rising in popularity of digital cameras, 30poulets wanted to color this Black/grey images and make it more fun, more unique. The 30poulets straps become trendy. With a vintage look, it gives personality…
New Year’s Contest: Winter Hats by Yak Apparel!
We spent last winter really stocking up on winter apparel when we lived in Colorado, Sweaters, coats, goggles, gloves, hats, ski gear and boots galore. Buying all that stuff all in one season can really get expensive so I had planned on using most of it in the years to come, however a love fashion doesn’t always permit you to just wear the same things every year. I found the key to using some of the same seasonal clothes while not getting bored is definitely Accessorizing. Getting yourself a new hat, scarf or pair of gloves can really mix up…