Jet Boutique Anniversary Party + Flybabe Deal
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Jet boutique landed on North Mississippi Avenue a year ago, serving up chic, sustainable and comfortable designs by shop owner Jennifer Thomas, plus a sleek stash of artful bags, shoes and local jewelry. We’re excited to start our weekend with a layover at the Jet Anniversary Party, 5 p.m. to [...]
Isaac Hers Fall 2010 Launch Party at Phlox
September 19, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
Portland Fashion Week is still weeks away, but there is another opportunity to check out new designs from one of our fave local indie designers. To get an early fall fashion fix, you’ll want to stop by the Isaac Hers Fall 2010 Collection launch party at Mississippi’s Phlox Boutique from 6 p.m. to 9 [...]
Neat TREND! How wood you like some cute clog boots?
August 31, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Marianne Schnell, NEAT contributor
Chances are if you’re a Portland gal you own more than your fair share of cold weather boots. But living in the Northwest, where cool temps and rain rule, there’s always a good reason for yet another booty call. Meet your new BFF: The clog boot. It’s a hybrid of sorts [...]
Blowout End of Summer Sale at Phlox Boutique
By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
There are blowouts that are good (hair), blowouts that are bad (tire) and blowouts that are just plain awesome. In this case, the latter is referring to end-of-summer blowout sales. Favorite local Mississippi Street shopping haunt Phlox is having just such a sale this Thursday, August 26 through Sunday, August 29.
In [...]
Neat TREND! Portland fashion is one big rose parade
June 2, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Erin Flesch and Karen Vitt, NEAT Rose City petal pickers
Spring fashion in The Rose City comes with a few thorns. We’re grateful for the citywide parade of sweet-smelling blooms and floral-filled fantasies of Portland Rose Festival (which is under way now), but we could do without the prick of this never-ending dreary June weather. This [...]
Neat SHEET: What’s blooming in Portland shops this May
May 3, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Karen Vitt and Erin Flesch, NEAT shopping conspirators
Portland shops are blooming with floral things to fawn over this month, and The Neat Sheet has rounded up a few of our favorites for your purchasing pleasure. Going back to our roots as a literal neat sheet of pretty things to buy around town each month, [...]
Neat TREND! Portland fashion dallies with dahlias
April 27, 2010 by karenvitt
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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. [...]
Neat fashion TREND: Go west… on your motorcycle!
March 30, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
Geographically speaking, Portlanders have gone about as westward as we can go. On the fashion frontier, however, we still have some trail blazin’ to do. Sure, cowboy-friendly Frye boots are a staple of practically every fashionable PDX gal’s wardrobe, but come summer we’ll want to kick our western ways into high [...]
Mardi Gras on Mississippi + Haiti benefit Saturday
February 12, 2010 by karenvitt
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Keep your tops on, people. This Saturday’s Mardi Gras on Mississippi event in North Portland is a decidedly more family affair than those raunchy Bourbon Street festivals down south. Plus, all proceeds from this Saturday’s Mardi Gras event will benefit relief work in Haiti.
Merchants on Mississippi will create a carnival-like atmosphere on Mississippi Avenue from [...]
Neat street style: Saturday strolling on Mississippi
January 10, 2010 by karenvitt
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How adorable is Grace Alie, strolling Mississippi Avenue in her playful coral tunic and yellow sock combo, topped and tamed with a classic trench? Alie, an interior design student at Portland Art Institute, was kind enough to pose for The Neat Sheet’s first ever issue of Neat Street – our new weekly Sunday street style [...]
