Shop Fashion’s Night Out in downtown Portland
August 30, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat EVENT
By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
Just as fashion magazines double in size this time of year, fall fashion events tend to be pretty heavy as well. In early October, we’ve got our very own Portland Fashion Week to look forward to (and believe us, we are), but before that there’s Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s ode to [...]
Neat STREET: Talkin’ trash with McMinnville’s fashion elite
May 23, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STREET, Neat STUFF
Allow us to introduce you to the best-dressed water well driller you’ll ever meet. Shelby Wilcox was strutting her sexy stuff past McMenamins Hotel Oregon in downtown McMinnville, Ore. last weekend when we spotted her glamorous spots, so we chased her down and wound up talking trash – literally.
Wilcox told us she’s a huge collector of [...]
Neat STREET: Spacey style at the McMinnville UFO Festival
May 16, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STREET, Neat STUFF
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
There was no shortage of fantasy fashion to be found among the alien antics in McMinnville, Ore., this weekend, when the 11th annual McMinnville UFO Festival took over the town’s picturesque main drag. But among the standard green face paint and bobble antenna headbands, only a select few style [...]
“Sex and the City 2″ Sweepstakes + Girls Weekend at Macy’s
May 10, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF, Neat WIN
We’re pretty sure Charlotte, Carrie, Samantha and Miranda have spent a fair amount of time shopping at Macy’s, so its only fitting the department store gets in on the “Sex and the City 2″ movie action with some sweepstakes fun leading up to the movie’s release date on Thursday, May 27.
First up, you have two [...]
Neat STREET style: A nod to ’90s neon in the Pearl
May 9, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STREET, Neat STUFF
Sculptor Jessie Weitzel, a student at Pacific Northwest College of Art and part-time animator, is having a ’90s neon moment. “It’s a weird, premature nostalgia,” she laughed when we asked about her choice of neon orange toenails, which lit up Northwest Lovejoy Street as she shopped for Mother’s Day gifts on this sunny Saturday.
Weitzel, staying [...]
Neat TREND! Portland fashion dallies with dahlias
April 27, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF, Neat TREND
By Erin Flesch and Karen Vitt, NEAT floral trend conspirators
Random horticulture fact of the day: The Portland area is home to the largest dahlia growers in the entire country. We may be known as The Rose City, but there is considerable evidence to suggest that we are just as much a city of dahlias, too. [...]
Portland Prom Planner 2010 + Win a Benefit beauty package
April 14, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Brittnee Rosenblum has been prom shopping for weeks, and she still hasn’t found what she’s looking for. “It has to be perfect,” she said. “After all, it’s something you look forward to all year.” Totally! The day we met the Central Catholic High School junior shopping for prom dresses at [...]
100 Years of Jantzen exhibit + Win a retro ruffled swimsuit!
April 7, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF, Neat WIN
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
“Own the sea and the sun and the sand and all the men in site!” That fabulous copy, lifted straight from a 1954 Jantzen ad in Look magazine, sums up exactly why we love Jantzen and all it’s vintage, vampy glory. Especially here in Portland, where the legendary local [...]
Neat SHEET: Pretty local luxuries to weather April showers
April 6, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Once upon a time, The Neat Sheet was just that – a neat sheet of pretty things to buy and wear in the Portland area. We’ve decided to go back to our roots and introduce a new Neat Sheet feature that rounds up our favorite local luxuries each month. We can all use a bit [...]
The Teaches of Peaches: Spring beauty tips for 2010
March 23, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF, Neat TREND
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Peaches ’n cream skin. Cherry red lips. Plum eye shadow. Candy-colored nails. Portland women are biting into all these juicy beauty trends for Spring 2010, and as usual we are not following any rules.
“I love the diversity of Portland women’s style,” said Deborah Haynes, owner of Blush Beauty Bar [...]
