Ask The Fashionista
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Ask The Fashionista: I Want YOU To Write A Blog Posting
I’ll keep this short and sweet, dear readers. We’re making some great changes here at the DC Goodwill Fashion Blog and we need YOUR help! Ever read the blog and thought, “I could do that!” Well think no more…now’s the time to act. We’re turning Fridays into an interactive experience with blog posts written by [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, blogging
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Ask The Fashionista: You Can’t Always Get What You Want (But You Can Try)
The DCGF received a very specific question via email this week, dear readers, but i think the broader implications are something all of us have struggled with at some time or another: ” I have been searching and searching trying to find [Cheap Monday's] Mega Bottom jeans with no success at all. I was thinking [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, celebrities, Cheap Monday, Moschino
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Ask The Fashionista: Suited Up
The DCGF received an urgent email this week: “…I find myself, at the ripe old age of 29, with a new job in DC where most of the men wear SUITS on a daily basis. Needless to say, I am stumped. I own one suit, which is a pair or black pants and black jacket [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Filene's, Loehmann's, New York and Company, Pendleton, Sofft, Talbots, women's suits, work attire
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Ask The Fashionista: Shoes For A Song
Reader Katherine indeed threw the gauntlet down this week with the following question: “I want shoes like Kyra Sedgwick’s in that boppin’ Trop50 commercial, but thanks to Shoe Bunny, I’m now thoroughly disappointed that I’ll never own them due to their price tag! Has the DCGF seen any similar styles for a more reasonable price?”Okay [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, Forever 21, Irregular Choice, shoes, We Who See
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Ask The Fashionista: You’re Not A Freak
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Fashion Trends, trunk show
The DCGF gets barraged with questions all the time in the retail stores: Does this color flatter my skin tone? Should I allow my thirteen-year-old daughter to wear this dress? Does this suit jacket fit right in the shoulders? But the one variation upon a theme I hear time and again is that “my arms/legs/torso/hairline [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, New York and Company, Travelin' Trunk Show, vintage
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Ask The Fashionista: Just A Regular Guy
Ah yes, dear readers. Sometimes it’s very easy for the DCGF to get stuck in her rarefied (in my own mind, anyway) world of highfalutin’ fashion and forget about some potential blog readers who have never heard of Thakoon or Lanvin, and spend most of their thinking on fashion deciding which pair of jeans to [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, Ben Sherman, Brooks Brothers, Kenneth Cole, Swatch
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Ask The Fashionista: Apron-mania
Everyone who throws on an apron when they go home, in order to fix a home-cooked meal, please take one step forward. Not so fast, DCGF! I’ll confess: I’m not much into things domestic. But when reader Michelle sent me the following email, my interest was piqued: “Dear DCGF,I’ve been reading here and there about [...]
Tags: Anthropologie, Ask The Fashionista, DIY, Ten Thousand Villages, Thakoon
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Ask The Fashionista: Ann Taylor LOFT & Goodwill
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Reader Julia brought this to the DCGF’s attention in an email on Wednesday: “I see that LOFT and Goodwill are partnering… very cool! Did you have anything to do with this?!” You see, Julia had received an email from LOFT announcing their “Out with the Old, Save on the New” event. Any customer who donates [...]
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Ask The Fashionista: What’s It Really Like
This week I’m asking the question for you, dear readers: What is Fashion Week actually like? Even though I wasn’t able to make it up to New York yesterday, I still have a few insights from season’s past that will quickly disabuse you of any “Devil Wears Prada”-like fantasies regarding the world of fashion. Hold [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, New York Fashion Week, runway shows
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Ask The Fashionista: Dress For Your Body
Reader Marlie writes, “I have a fashion question: If one is overweight and uncomfortable about how they look in form-fitting clothes….isn’t it better to wear looser clothes and feel less self-conscious and always looking in a mirror than to succumb to the “fashion experts” about wearing slimming attire and esp. belts and be totally uncomfortable!?” [...]
Tags: Ask The Fashionista, dresses, Free City, Freya, ShapeFX, undergarments