My family has gotten into a wonderfully fun tradition the last couple of years where we go Christmas shopping together, after Christmas. All four us! It’s loads of fun as we team up at Last Call and Nordstrom Rack, so both the boys and girls can have a wide selection. We’ll also usually stop at…
Remember when Patagonia introduced recycled down in their beyond-fab Bivy jackets and I was obsessed? I’m—if possible—even more obsessed with their new recycled cashmere collection. We took cashmere scraps, spun them with five percent virgin wool for strength, and created a luxurious new cashmere collection with a much lower ecological impact than virgin cashmere. 95%…
100% Recycled Down! How cool is this?? Patagonia has created their signature jackets and vests with recycled down. It’s a mix of 600-fill-power goose and duck down reclaimed from used items (mostly quilts and pillows), which is cleaned, sorted and resurrected. It offers identical performance benefits to virgin down. As if I wasn’t obsessed with…
The bikini was created/first appeared at a poolside fashion show in Paris on July 5, 1946. The then shockingly skimpy design, dubbed the bikini after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, took twenty-plus years to really catch on … and now we’ve moved to even more shockingly-skimpy designs with the prevalence of thong bikinis (remember…