Apr�sChi-Chi

Vintage skiwear is white(out) hot.

Fashion Drop the thong and back away slowly--winter is not finished with you yet. NYC's Fashion Week notwithstanding, February is the dullest season for style--the leftover "holiday" finery on the sale ra ... More

Wednesday, February 20, 2002 Elizabeth Dye

Get Your (Shoe)Shine On

Fashion Who doesn't envy the well-appointed, those polished people who always manage to look shiny from the tip of their slicked scalps all the way down to their buffed brogans? Don't get mad...get even.I ... More

Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Elizabeth Dye

Soak It to Me!

Soap stalls winter woes.

Fashion Honey, there is no ritzier antidote to the mean reds of a biting cold winter than a piping hot bath and a sweet cake of soap.But wait! Before all you Ivory girls and Dial dudes dunk your frosty toes ... More

Wednesday, February 6, 2002 Elizabeth Dye

Saddle & Bridal

The Portland Bridal Show broke records (and a certain WW fashion filly's heart).

Fashion The 23rd annual Portland Bridal Show cold-cocked previous attendance records by luring 5,000-plus pre-nuptial junkies to the Oregon Convention Center for a midwinter weekend of froth, fashion and ... More

Wednesday, January 23, 2002 Elizabeth Dye

Slumming in 'Swego

Lake Big-Ego is rich with fashion.

Fashion Although Lake Oswego is only 15 minutes from downtown, a Gatsby-wide world of difference stands between civic-minded Oswegans and metropolitan-proud Portlanders. City dwellers have excuses why they ... More

Wednesday, January 16, 2002 Elizabeth Dye

To Do in '02:

Your Style Survival Guide

Fashion Attention, troops! Is there a chance that our global anti-terror campaign has diverted our attention from the decorative delights of fashion? Have the Evildoers actually accomplished one of their ... More

Wednesday, January 9, 2002 Elizabeth Dye

Jewelry 411

Fashion Although shiny, new jewelry makes for the perfect squeal-inspiring cadeau, most discriminating giftees do not want their new bijou from a "friend in the diamond business." For genuine gems t ... More

Wednesday, December 19, 2001 Elizabeth Dye

LICK THE GLASS...

It's time for the first-ever Window Wonderland Awards!

Fashion The French call window shopping leche la vitrine or "lick the glass." That frisky idiom sums up the delicious envy that is window shopping--it has nothing to do with promotions or "extended store ... More

Wednesday, December 12, 2001 Elizabeth Dye

Butterfly Stitches

PDX's own Kayla Kennington reigns supreme in the art-to-wear design world.

Fashion On the fringes of fashion design lurks a distinguished and highly skilled coterie of art-to-wear designers. Their reigning queen is none other than West Linn artist Kayla Kennington, who just won ... More

Wednesday, November 28, 2001 Elizabeth Dye

PLANET GIRL

Dispatches from the Vergotis Holiday Fashion Show

Fashion There's a dainty, moon-sized planet on Northeast Broadway: a women's clothing boutique called Vergotis. In that gentle land, where ceilings are frescoed with sweet fluffy clouds amid an azure sky ... More

Wednesday, November 21, 2001 Elizabeth Dye