Shop in the Buff
Pinch pennies. Scrimp and save.
No matter how you put it, saving money always sounds like a painful experience.
This time of year that’s the last thing we want to be doing, especially with holiday party invites and festive get-togethers to look forward to.
So save money the chic way. Study the streets and style guides in magazines for this seasons cutest looks and go to The Buffalo Exchange, on Broadway and Surf in Lakeview or on Milwaukee and North in Bucktown and be prepared to find deals, steals and the most eclectic assortment of apparel and accessories under one small roof.
They buy and sell clothing and accessories directly from their chicest customers. Their “ever-changing inventory includes designer wear, vintage, jeans, leather, great basics, and irresistible one-of-a-kind items. You’ll also find new merchandise and accessories to choose from.” (http://www.buffaloexchange.com/how.htm)
From Diane VonFurstenburg geometric print dresses to leather-studded wristbands, The Buffalo Exchange never ceases to surprise and amaze.
This season sweaters are a necessity as well as an accessory. Pair a vibrant long sweater with conservative looks for work, then throw it over your favorite party dress with a pair of tights and some jewelry and you’re a Poster Girl for this season’s best layered look.
This whole look cost about $70.
Color Creeps In This Winter
From punchy handbags to jewel-toned overcoats, this season color is the quickest way to break up the sea of grey and black that flows through the city on a winter’s day. Designers are introducing teal totes, checkered capes, and fuchsia fedoras that are great punches of color in anyone’s winter wardrobe.
But how do you incorporate color subtly? Not everyone can comfortably commit to a mustard blazer for the rest of the day or coordinate with a plum tote, so the answer is to think smaller.
Much smaller.
Suzanne Miranda is the mind behind the Nomadic Ant collection – a line of jewelry so bewitching with touches of color and graceful curves that you can’t help but think of waves and the summer.Working with stones of red coral, black onyx, blue turquoise, and white halite, Miranda’s unique earrings are the chicest accessories that commit to color and echo every season with their organic shapes and natural elegance.
Creations like these offer accessible color; versatile, youthful, graceful and chic. This is a color option for anyone that goes from day to night and work to weekend, and can transform any outfit, summer, winter, spring and fall.
Winter is when we need to get creative with fashion. Start small with color.
Havana earrings $48 / Madras earrings $36 / Dhaka earrings $38 / Cadiz earrings $48
For inquiries contact:
nomadic.ant.designs@gmail.com
Because Your Apartment Wants to Look Good Too
Even in this economy you can still justify spending $200 on that pair of slimming dark-wash jeans, but how much do you tend to spend on playing dress-up with your apartment?
With rent through the roof, paychecks out the window and your budget stretched out the door, decorating your home can take a backseat, because keeping your walls fashionable and fabulous can be costly.
So how do you keep couture in your place without breaking the bank or dipping into your shoe stash? Try decorating with fashion…when you aren’t sporting it around the city of course!
www.realsimple.com
RealSimple.com has ingenious decorating ideas, from a toothbrush holder-turned-unique vase to wine glasses as tea light holders.
Check out these and many more affordably chic and unique decorating tips at www.realsimple.com
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Studio-808, Inc. is the brainchild of Erin Creaney, a PR executive with a near-athletic enthusiasm for emerging designers. Finding herself searching the city for great designers with new and different looks, she knew a larger operation was in order. What's more, she felt the world needed to know about the fashion percolating in the Windy City. Thus was born Studio-808.com.
