Little Black, Red, Blue, Neon, Polka dot, Plaid, Striped etc. Dress

It's no secret that I have a lot of dresses. Summer dresses are my particular weakness. Last weekend I switched my fall/ winter clothes in my closet for my spring/summer ones. I realized that I may have one (or 50) too many dresses...


Looking to expand your dress collection? Check out the dress section in our Etsy store.

Clothes + Ladies + Food

Bunch o' ladies popped on over this past weekend and brought with them a whole heap of clothes they no longer wished for...a ton of food, hilarity, dressing up and contortions resulted (no full length mirror just the crappy bathroom cupboard!). Highly recommend a swap to boost your wardrobe and clean it out all at the same time...plus dear Bonnie and Edwina above were put to good use modeling some Sweet Clothes stock! Thanks ladies.....

Spring Dressing: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Mmmm...Just Right:

I find early spring dressing difficult and often feel like I have a case of "the Goldilocks". Too cold for bare legs. Too warm for boots and tights. I don’t wear dress pants very often and I can’t wear jeans every day.

I do have some dresses and skirts that work for both winter and summer and I tend to gravitate to them. Wearing them with lighter coloured tights and flats/ heels or without tights but with boots is usually my solution.

If you love pants (I don’t as I find it hard to find one’s that fit me properly), try them with a more spring/summery shoe and a light trench coat. Trenches also look great with lighter weight fabric dresses and certain types of boots (i.e. slightly bohemian). The fashion peeps call the articles that work for this time of year “transition pieces”.

What’s your favourite transition piece or what are your suggestions for unpredictable early spring weather?

Here are some good transition pieces in our Etsy shop:

Airy floral dress with some nice boots...



Classic trench with some jeans and ballet flats...



Cobalt blue blazer over a floral dress...


Dove Grey Skirt with a jean jacket and boots...

Race to the Primaries!

Some bright and sunny stuff for this warm weather (yippeeee!), first up from our wee store and then some beautiful vivid colour from some fab Etsy sellers we found when we put in a search for primaries! Now we just need a touch of tan so we don't have scary skin tone clash....

Jordache Shirt Dress (in a decent size!)

Sunny Side Up Wedges (size 8)

Slouchy Red Pants (Small)

Cobalt Blazer (Small)

Breakin' tee SOLD

Striped 1970s tee (Small)

Regal Red Mini by vintagestew (super affordable great dress, get out those pins!)

Yellow Phone (round and round not up and down, remember?) by Gingersgirl

Nautical Skirt (excellent scalloped sailboat trim!)by cloudninevintage

Brunch Bribes

Need some help from friends to take Etsy pics? brunch bribe! they'll be putty in your hands! After strawberries, wholewheat English muffins, scrambled eggs and tomatoes with basil, garlic and fennel sausage a good friend was happily posing and snapping away, here's some of her handy work below. Plates above are the exact 1970's plates I had at home as a kid, found them on ebay, they are Crown Lynn made in NZ, love those sunflowers, the memories.

Dove Gray Medium Fit Skirt

High Waisted Teal Linen Skirt SOLD

Khaki Skirt SOLD

Sequin Sea

I think most women love a little sparkle in their wardrobe. I'm not talking about the beauty pageant variety, but a sequin top or sparkly shoe for cocktails? Absolutely.

I was recently reminded of this notion when a group of my friends travelled to Las Vegas for our friend Alex's 30th birthday. I wasn't able to partake in the festivities (i.e. rolling around on the casino floor), but I was able to be a part of some of the pre-trip shopping. The ladies took it to a whole new level of sparkly. I think the bedazzler was set to high that weekend.

Here's a close-up of Alex's sequined leggings which look amazing on her mile long legs.



Last month I also got to indulge my inner beauty pageant contestant. I bought an amazing red sequined vintage dress last fall and hadn't had the opportunity to wear it.....until recently. My man and I had tickets to the Gold Medal Olympic Hockey Game. As we were cheering for Canada (apologies to our US readers) and being that this was one of the most historic sporting events in Canada's history, we thought it would be appropriate to dress up. So I wore the dress. What I love about the dress is that while it's bright, red and sequined, it has a demure shape.

Here's me after we won GOLD with Dean Caten (of DSquared2) who also happened to be celebrating in Vancouver that night. He might have been "celebrating" a little more heavily than we were...


Apparently sparkles and sequins are big for spring. Here are some sparkly things in our shop...

Gold Pencil Skirt

Shades of Mauve Dress




Black and Gold 70s Disco Dress



Silver Metallic Heels

Ione brought cookies with me.

Today I was reminded of a rather hilarious Xmas couple years ago when I went to a friend's intimate Xmas dinner he had bought and cooked entirely alone and wonderfully, we all took champagne, dessert, you know the usual Holidays goodies. Turns out another guest knew singer Ben Lee, he came along and brought his girl, the actress Ione Skye. So, Xmas, there's guests, there's amazing food, there's champagne. At. Xmas. Guess what they brought?.....a bag of wholefoods cookies. Who does that? I've always wanted to share that. Here have some Moet Ben & Ione, oh ummm yes sure I'll have a wholefoods coconut cookie thanks. There it's out in the universe I'll let it go now.

photo courtesy of WireImage, not entirely sure we can use it.