Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Sew Your Own: "Green" Grocery Bags

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Green Eco Conscious, Hobbies Crafts Diy, Crafts, Green Living, Reusable Bags, Sewing, Shopping Bags

  September is National Sewing Month.  Last year, if you recall, I gave you some guidance on the basics of sewing (here, here, here and here.)  This year, we're applying those lessons again. I've picked a favorite craftying activity of mine: sewing some kind of bag.  It might be a simple grocery tote, a cute felted bag, or a real

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Anita Roddick, The Body Shop founder, dies at 64

  Published: September 11, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Beauty, Fashion Shopping, Feminism Gender, Animal Testing, Anita Roddick, Barbie, Beauty, Cosmetics, Fair Trade, L Oreal, Mattel, Peta, The Body Shop

  and her rejection of the fashion industry's emphasis on perfection. Roddick opened the first Body Shop store in 1976, with 15 products. Over the next 15 years, The Body Shop grew, with Roddick's own political agenda a key component of the business. Roddick described her stores as "billboards" and used them to campaign for various issues,

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Fashion Week in Review Fashion Trends for Spring 2008

  Published: September 14, 2007, 2:42 am

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Design, Fashion, Fashion Week, Style

  happening in fashion this week?  New York Fashion Week wraps up, but the trend analysis just begins. Fashiontribes gives us the scoop on up-and-coming talent from Gen Art's Fresh Faces in Fashion show. Second City Style wraps up Fashion Week with the key trends for Spring 2008. Couture in the City declares that Monique Lhuillier's

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Tim Gunn's Guide to Style

  Published: September 15, 2007, 9:49 pm

  Tags: Entertainment Books, Fashion Shopping, Pop Culture, Guide To Quality Taste Style, Bravo, Clinton Kelly, Fashion, Stacy London, Style, Target, Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn S Guide To Style, Tlc, Veronica Webb, What Not To Wear

  his inimitable approach to fashion to the people, employing the now-familiar formula of the sixty-minute makeover. The self-nominated participant has her closet decimated, goes shopping, and returns as a reformed, more beautiful version of herself. Along the way, she confronts her demons, learns to walk like a supermodel, and meets a super

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Plus-size basics

  Published: September 18, 2007, 1:28 pm

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Basics, Figure Magazine, Plus Size, Project Blog, The Budget Fashionista, Thick Misses

  our own JenB takes you shopping, in the US and Canada. Pack your bags! To tide you over until then, some plus-size fashion inspiration from the blogs: The Budget Fashionista gives us the best and worst from the Emmy's red carpet. Renae at Thick Misses has the scoop on Jennifer Hudson's role in the forthcoming Sex and the City movie. Kiki

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Maddison Is Too Sexy for Thirteen

  Published: September 24, 2007, 9:53 am

  Tags: Beauty, Body Image, Fashion Shopping, Life, Mommy Family, Pop Culture, Maddison Gabriel

  the catwalk. The British Fashion Council has announcing (sic) models aged 15 years or younger should not be allowed to enter the London Fashion Week one of the world's most famous fashion events. And another British inquiry this week recommended that models provide "health certificates" from doctors to prove they don't have an eating

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Taking summer skirts into fall

  Published: September 25, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Boden, Denim, Fall Clothes, Fall Fashion, Skirts, Tights

  see . . . Amethyst at The Fashionable Housewife tells you how to take trends from the runway to your real life, without breaking the bank or looking like a goof. Style and Substance at The Well Heeled Society shows off fall's fabulous flats (practical! AND stylish! perfect). And finally, lest you think that fashion is all frivolity, there's

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Fashion Week in Review Introducing the new Project Runway contestants

  Published: September 28, 2007, 3:08 am

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Design, Fashion, Style

  happening in fashion this week?  Fashiontribes gives us a Moschino leather skirt suit look for less. Couture in the City plays "Hit or Miss" with celebrity fashion photos. Second City Style rounds up the Top 20 Most Viewed Fashion Shows from Fashion Week. Fabsugar gives us the scoop on Project Runway's season four hopefuls.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• I Am a Big Clothes Horse

  Published: September 29, 2007, 12:43 am

  Tags: Canada, Fashion Shopping, World

  (also no online shopping), When I had a "real" job in an office, I bought a lot of work clothing at, Laura (again, no online shopping) they do petites, plus and regular. They do have some casual stuff, and a more mature customer base. There is also Addition-Elle, which is probably the most popular plus size chain, since we lost

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Let your inner slob out (and then post her picture on Flickr)

  Published: September 29, 2007, 10:46 pm

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Dress Like Slob, Flickr, Secret Agent Josephine

  know, in parody of the ever fashionable and trim-as-a-whip Ms. Susan Wagner of Friday Playdate? Maybe you are familiar with her Working Closet pool? I've been following it for quite a while, wishing I could play. But sadly, I don't own any fancy clothes like that. And if I did I'd probably hide them because Baby Bug would smear greasy goldfish

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Giddyup! Shopping Plus Size Online.

  Published: September 30, 2007, 11:46 pm

  Tags: Canada, Fashion Shopping, World

  conditions of plus sized shopping in Canada. It really isn't so dire and so lacking in real selection. You have to work all the angles to get the wardrobe you want. In case you missed it Susan Wagner wrote a post on WHAT to wear when you are in plus sized fashions. Go read her!!! I forgot to write about Tabolts. We have had several

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• October is class reunion month --what are YOU wearing to your reunion?

  Published: October 2, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Cocktail Dress, Embellished Flat, Garnet Hill

  to "pickup." Any more shopping websites you can point me to? Nicole Nicole isn't the only one with reunions on her mind just now; Rach at Come as You Are Party is going to her husband's 20th reunion this month, and she's not sure what to wear either: Oh no. What if I look like...like...a stay-at-home-Mom??? ACK!!! Heaven forbid I should

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Fashion Week in Review Trend-Proof Must Haves for Fall

  Published: October 5, 2007, 3:04 am

  Tags: Fashion Shopping, Design, Fashion, Style

  happening in fashion this week?  Fashiontribes dishes up the 5 Trend-Proof Fashion Must-Haves for Fall. Couture in the City discovers must have crib and kids bed sheets from Serena & Lily. Second City Style dissects It Girl Style, from Mandy Moore to Jennifer Garner. Clothes-Pin interviews Bria Phillips from fab online boutique Le

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• First comes the baby, then comes the boob job

  Published: October 6, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Body Image, Fashion Shopping, Feminism Gender, Breast Implants, Mom Job, Plastic Surgery, Postpartum Body, Tummy Tuck

  does this have to do with fashion and shopping? Everything. The way you feel about your body has a tremendous impact on what you wear and how you shop. When you are struggling to live happily in your body, it is hard to find the energy to dress well; this can be particularly true in the years after a baby, when you are tired and stressed

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Winter shoes, for your pregnancy and beyond

  Published: October 9, 2007, 10:42 am

  Tags: Fashion Shopping

  Susan Wagner writes about fashion at Friday Style and The Working Closet, and about everything else at Friday Playdate. She has an unhealthy love of flat

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0