The next Butler + Claypool vintage shopping event has been planned! This time we’ve partnered up with our friends Kristen and Erin from Ginger Root, debuting their new, expanded space upstairs....
A few weeks ago I spent a lovely sunny day with a gaggle of ladies to shoot a lookbook for Ciao Nina, the line of quirky handmade accessories based here in DC (and worn, notably, by Leighton Meester ...
This thoughtful and genuine email landed in my inbox and I feel truly inspired and reminded that one of the best things about blogging (and when I was doing my Washingtonian column) is the amazing pe...
{image courtesy GAP via iVillage} Sister: omg diane von furstenberg has made miniature wrap dresses for baby gap me: YES they are fucking adorable Sister: so cute! me: i know! WANT Sister: ha me: for...
Well helloooo, Spring social calendar, you’re looking mighty full! Thought I’d share the wealth. Some of these are as soon as tomorrow. Giddyup! WHAT: TIFFANY event in Tysons. WHEN: Tomor...
Check out all of the Mad Men-era ads in the new issue of Newsweek, including our ad, above (it’s in the DC edition)! There’s so much retro fun in the mag: 60s type treatment on everything...
I’m very excited to share some behind-the-scenes photos from the styling shoot I did for the Newseum the other weekend with my B+C collaborators. It’s for an ad for the Mad Men-themed iss...
The innovative dance company Keigwin + Company comes to the Kennedy Center for a brief engagement this weekend. The vaguely retro, colorful makeup and clothes in this addictive video – not to m...
Hey, all of you last-minute-lovers: it’s the day before Valentine’s Day, but all is not lost. If you are reading this blog, the person you love (or the one who loves you and knows you wel...
Tomorrow at the Corcoran, local artist Holly Bass will perform “Moneymaker”– ;involving a faux derriere, a sick soundtrack of soul jams and old-school interviews and recordings, and t...
The ladies and I are throwing another Butler + Claypool vintage shopping event this weekend, from 11 AM-5 PM at Cork Market’s Tasting Room. We’ll be bringing out our best women’s AND men’...
Your final dose of 90s magazine goodness is brought to you by an issue anyone reading this should probably own: the Vogue 100 anniversary issue (start your eBay search engines!). It’s the ultim...
A few weeks ago, a good friend threw herself a middle school dance-themed 30th birthday. There were bottles of ! perfume, mixtapes featuring Julianna Hatfield and the My So-Called Life theme, babydol...
I found this amazing antique bag at a Goodwill a few years ago and I always get compliments when I wear it out. Not exactly Goodwill pricing, but here is an identical-looking one on eBay.
My vacation in Austin included dancing with gentlemanly strangers with boot-scootin’ skills at The Broken Spoke, a silver-lame-masked bartender at The White Horse in East Austin, coveting objec...
Our winner for tickets to see ‘Ann’ at the Kennedy Center January 4, Holly Marshall, wrote in with some images of the item in her wardrobe that makes her feel most powerful: cowboy boots!...
{photo by torgy2k] I fly out for Austin, TX Thursday morning, where I’ll divide the time between the city and a house in the Hill Country. I’ve been doing a little internet research, incl...
Former Texas Governor Ann Richards told it like is. She also (for better or for worse) helped define the 80’s power suit look in Washington, with its wide shoulder pads, large buttons and straight li...
I went to the White House for a holiday party and what can I say?! It was as gorgeous and special as you would hope, and truly an only-in-Washington experience. Our President and his Lady have such s...
I missed Holly’s Refinery29 deadline for a roundup of local blogger holiday wish-lists by a hair, so here you go! Here’s what I’m lusting over for the holidays; if you’ve stil...
I’m invited to a holiday party at the White House! With the POTUS and FLOTUS! What to wear, what to wear….!?! In case you were wondering, it’s because of a partnership I’ve be...
I met Gabrielle Fouche Williams at Pulp the other night and promptly abandoned all urgency fr purchasing a wedding card to peppered this gorgeous stranger with outfit questions: where did you get tha...
Something super sad just happened, and it’s called I Just Found My Dream Sofa on Craigslist and Someone Else Got to it First. Insult to injury: all three pieces were for $100. If any of you lov...
OMG: The ladies of Treasury (who used to be Listopad, read the interview with them way back when) are taking over DC vintage institution Meeps! Cathy and Katerina will add buy-sell-trade and local de...
Eddie Bauer recently invited local bloggers to check out their latest cool-weather collections and to put their individual stylist stamp on men’s and women’s looks (and to eat awesomely b...
…and now more home-decor obsessed than ever. Just moved into a new one-bedroom apartment on the Hill (I’ll blame the near month of blog silence on that!) and now find myself daydreaming a...
{unironic bust in the Hillwood foyer} One of my favorite ladyfriends gets marrried (at the Corcoran, no less!) in just over a week, and it’s reminding me of the visit I paid to see Wedding Bell...
There’s an amazing, relatively new art-decoish painted mural on the building that houses the Capitol Pool Checkers Club in Shaw. I’m not sure who painted it, but it was done this summer a...
First up: tonight, local designer Dana Ayanna Greaves hosts a fashion party at the Shaw Library (styling by fellow rag+bone DIY Ambassador Brooke Kao). Right now I’m crushing on her magazine to...
The magnetic boards above my desk at home hold random detritus that I think is beautiful or inspiring or funny, and changes constantly. It’s changed since I snapped this the other day! I think ...
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