The Hill is Home. Indeed. Is it though? I returned from New York Sunday night, but before I had left I found myself caught in a crying jag, sitting in a 100 year-old family-run pastry shop, which I have to leave again, with only a biscotti for company, trying not to wake the sleeping old [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fashion'
Homesick on the Hill: Meditations in an Emergency
July 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill
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Fashion on the Hill: Angel skin, one flight up
June 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Eastern Market
I looked on in wide-eyed wonderment — a less damaging alternative to my procerus muscle than creasing my brow in constant befuddlement — while at the Botox or Bangs event at Mickey Bolek’s Michael Anthony Salon across from Eastern Market on C Street SE. The event drew both hotties and hippies, sometimes in the same [...]
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Sporting the Sportif Hill Look
May 28th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Eastern Market
I was in line somewhere in the Metro area, a museum I recall, and turned to ask a relaxed, jeans and untucked oxford-wearing woman behind me where she lived on the Hill. “I don’t,” she said. Yet, she had that “Hill look” that makes some people far away look as if they are our neighbors [...]
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My Personal 180°
May 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill
When The Hill Is Home blogger Liz Festa asked me if I’d like to participate in a makeover story for the blog, I was quick to say yes. Just days before, I had been offered a part-time job with a non-profit organization on the Hill. It had been six months since I worked in an [...]
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Fashion on the Hill: Kyra, Part Deux
April 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Capitol Hill
Fashion on the Hill will be spotlighting the personal wardrobe transformation of Kyra DeBlaker-Gebhard, one of our most enthusiastic and prolific bloggers, busy Mom and part-time professional, aided by the pro bono work of style talent Jenn Bussell of Wardrobe 180°, profiled here a few weeks back. Our Kyra went for round two in her [...]
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Fashion on the Hill: THIH Blogger Kyra Gets Wardrobe 180° Treatment
April 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill
Fashion on the Hill will be spotlighting the personal wardrobe transformation to a better-fitting, chicer and more stylish look for one of our more prolific bloggers, a busy Mom of a toddler and part-time professional, Kyra DeBlaker-Gebhard through the kindly pro bono work of style and branding talent Wardrobe 180°, profiled here a couple of [...]
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To Market: Gems & Jewels by Enise
April 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Eastern Market
Neighbors come and neighbors go, and trust me, all of mine have been interesting characters, including the former drug kingpins of 14th Street. The only one who has tempted my pocketbook is Enise, owner of Enise Jewelry and Silverado jewelry stores, and a stalwart of the North Carolina plaza at Eastern Market. Girls, you know [...]
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Fashion on the Hill: Couture Sewing Classes
April 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill South
Couture in Washington? Sure, if you do it yourself, you can drape and dart while everyone else tucks and rolls thanks to new classes beginning this week at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) taught by Nora Elias, a former atelier member trained at the most prestigious fashion school in the world. No, not the one [...]
Local Business: Wardrobe 180
March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Riverfront/ Near Southeast
If you’re an apostle of Tyler Durden, then you know you are not your khakis. But Jenn Bussell can help you figure out how to make your khakis more you. Bussell, a stylist and marketer by training, owns Wardrobe 180, and helps clients put their best foot forward in any situation with advice on building [...]
Fashion on the Hill: Hats Off, Heels On, to Spring
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
“Goodbye ugly boots, helloooo heels,” says my friend Heather. We are talking about the onset of spring-like weather, hopefully heralding the arrival of a season of pretty, diaphanous, sugar-spun days, and how we greet them sartorially, at least. Because these days will soon greet us with their cherry blossoms, daffodils and tulips all in a [...]
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