The Clothes Exchange

The Clothes Exchange is right around the corner!  Last week we participated in a give and get program.  We asked our customers to bring in one gently worn item and in return, they got a 20% off coupon, good for the month of April.  We had many generous donations - two boxes worth!  Thank you to the generous donors.

Tonight is a benefit night at The Bluebird Tavern, one of my personal favorite places to eat.  Stop by, bring something to donate, have a drink, have some great food and hang out with your fellow Clothes Exchange supporters.  A portion of the sales tonight will go to the cause.

This year is also the tenth anniversary of the program!  Spectrum Youth and Family Services was chosen to be the beneficiary but they will also be giving a portion of the proceeds to the previous beneficiaries.  Paying it forward. 

Video from the final night

They finally posted a video from the Charleston Fashion Week final night.  Click here.  Charlotte is planning on coming to Burlington to share her collection with us.  I think she may be leaving with one less accessory! 

She WON!

Congratulations Charlotte - winner of the Emerging Designer competition at Charleston Fashion Week.  I will post any new materials as they become available.  For now, here's a great video of Friday night's competition, that put her into the finals.  She got a standing ovation (of course she did).  Click here to see some of her runway pictures.

p.s. a special thank you to all of our sweet customers that contributed to her fashion fund. 

Charleston Fashion Week

I'm sitting in my office, feeling completely miserable with a nasty cold but all I want to do is scream with joy because Charlotte made it to the finals in the Charleston Fashion Week!

Tonight is the finale and one of the guest judges is Michael Knight from Project Runway.  

I can't wait to see these pieces up close.  Each piece is hand knit and look at the accessories!  Let's wish her the best of luck tonight because she deserves to win this runway competition!  Go Charlotte! (I tried yelling that but it came out in a squeak - I've got to go home...)

Happy Spring

Spring, spring, spring!  Welcome back longer days and chirping birds!  Bye bye snow and winter boots!  We've gotten in so many great pieces, I want to tell you about some of my favorites.  

 -a great leather, bone and horn chain necklace from Roost

- A leather belt from French Connection.  I think it's going to look great with a maxi dress this summer.

- a silk dress from Left on Houston (the Roost necklace will look great with it)

- the perfect pair of white jeans from James
 

Silva/Bradshaw

Silva/Bradshaw was one of my favorites finds from the Accessory show.  The pieces pictured above are rings, that also can be necklace pendants.  All of the pieces come with a chain.  They are available in nylon (super lightweight and in fun colors), sterling silver, blackened silver and gold plated.  

I have my eye on one of the "tool" pieces.

Thinking about fall

Fall?!  I know, I know but all of these fabulous fall fashion shows are making me crave next seasons clothes!  I'm going to try to use what I have now to emulate the look for next fall (and breathe some life into my tired winter wardrobe).  One of the major trends was leather and fur.  I think that this cape looks like something that Charlotte would make...I could rock it with my leather BB Dakota dress.  Are you listening Charlotte? xoxox