October 7, 2011
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Shopping
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tamia
Just because I’m not shopping doesn’t mean I can’t encourage other people to do so! When I find good stuff, I like to share (I’m generous like that), so let’s Shop Around: Almost exactly a year ago during Style Tour, I visited Casablanca Vintage and it was a hot mess and a half. There was a mountain of clothes piled on the floor, there didn’t seem to be any order to the way things were...
The easiest way to make comfypants look elevated.
May 17, 2016
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Personal Style
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tamia
When May flowers give way to October temperatures, a traffic cone-colored vintage coat is the best way to brighten your day. Seriously though, summer is coming eventually, right? RIGHT?!? My 1950’s reversible coat is from Casablanca Vintage. Shop more options below!
February 12, 2015
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Designers
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tamia
There’s not much I love more than authentic vintage fashion. Something about the history, the stories, the nostalgia, the what-were-they-thinking excites me and makes me wonder what about today’s styles will look absolutely ridiculous in 10 years’ time. So when Cincinnati Magazine’s Managing Editor brought me a book from her archives called The Designing Life—published by W Magazine in 1987—all it took was one flip through the pages and I was obsessed. Take a look...
Watching Casablanca last weekend put me in the mood for a little suit action–but with a feminine touch. The lacy blouse is was a Gunne Sax-ish Little House on the Prairie dress I picked up at a thrift store a while ago, which wound up hanging out in my trunk (aka “storage”) for the better part of a year. I finally dug it out and attacked the dress with a pair of scissors in a...