Need glamour heading into the “social season? ” Need a closet pick-me-up or a special dress you can’t seem to get on the Hill? Or anywhere downtown? Get ready for ReadysetDC, which is holding its Capitol Hill fashion show, featuring all local designers, this Saturday at Eastern Market’s North Hall. It is an evening affair, a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fashion'
Fashion on the Hill: Attainable Fashion Meets the Runway–at North Hall Saturday
October 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill, Eastern Market
Tags: Eastern Market·Fashion
Capitol Curb: Trash, Trinkets and Treasures?
April 22nd, 2011 · 14 Comments · Capitol Hill
Some of my favorite ‘things’ on Capitol Hill are in its trash. Or next to it. That is to say, things put out on the curb either intended as giveaways or trash, depending on who gets there first – the garbage collectors or the lucky folk who sometimes literally stumble on a cool or useful [...]
Tags: Fashion
Instant Gratification
January 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments · H Street
If you haven’t been to SOVA lately, its time to make the trip. Now until February 20th, the space is alive with a special kind of nostalgia. Twenty-one photographers armed with retro instant-film cameras have taken thousands of photos for Exposed: The Polaroid Retrospective. Taken with different types of cameras, these are definitely not your [...]
“Fashion on the Hill” Hillys al Due
November 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill, Eastern Market
An out-of-town (just-over- the -bridge) guest at the second annual Hilly Awards sponsored by CHAMPS summed up the look among the many Hillys sparkling attendees Friday night by noting that the women who tried hit it out of the park, and the men looked like they were at least trying. Since I live here, I [...]
Fashion on the Hill: Fashionably Business- H Street Workshop for Fashion Startups
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · H Street
The growth of new business on H Street combined local interest from the vendors at Eastern Market to the aspiring fashion folk among us — who collect, knit, knot, consult, style themselves, sew and blog — has resulted in the perfect match: a workshop for those who want to start up a fashion business and [...]
Hand-Knit Hats Top Fall Offerings at Monkeys’ Uncle
September 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Eastern Market
The cutest little hats for Hill babies, toddlers and even some lucky adults are now in stock at The Monkeys’ Uncle, hand-knit by expert knitter and long-time resident Elizabeth Nelson. First the hats, then the full Nelson. Hats: OMG, the hats are exquisite little gems of needlework meant for heads as small as a babies’ and [...]
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Cocktail Dresses from a Bygone Era Get Another Whirl
August 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Capitol Hill
I was at that happy place, the H Street Temporium, Sunday after a friend emailed me a picture of a white beaded sheath and asked what I thought of it. “I’ll be right there,” I said, and hoofed it down in flip-flops. Amid the varied and clever accessory offerings on display were racks of full-on [...]
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WPost’s Scene In Hits H Street
July 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments · H Street
They’ve covered Eastern Market and Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, and now the Washington Post’s Alexandra Garcia has come to H Street to feature the many eclectic styles of the city for their “Scene In” video series. Click through to watch the video at WashingtonPost.com (god forbid they allow us to embed it here…)
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Fashion on the Hill: MOTHs Find a Good Fit at Nordstrom
July 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill
A couple months ago Anna Cranage Conathan, 37, went to a cosmetics trend show at Nordstrom. She thought it was interesting, but it focused far more on luxury than practicality. It wasn’t for her, she thought, at least not where she is in life right now: a work-at-home mother who tries to remember to brush [...]
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