Neat feet! Solestruck shoes anniversary party + sale
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Sometimes things just don’t turn out as you’d expect. And sometimes that’s fantastic! Case in point, Solestruck, the stellar local shoe shop that began as an online retailer, then opened a “temporary” pop-up shop in October 2009 and became so popular they stayed open for good — and for [...]
All aboard! Designer deals at the Le Train Bleu Pop-Up Shop
May 25, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Hop aboard, we have some amazing news for Portland’s most stylish shoppers! Beloved local online retailer Le Train Bleu will open its Northwest Portland doors to the public to shop in person during the first week of June. The Le Train Bleu Portland Pop-Up Shop will chug along with the hottest designer labels, deals and discounts [...]
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 STREET style: A hunger for fashion beneath the bridge
April 25, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STREET, Neat STUFF
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Just look at this fashionable foodie, Jill Seapker, who we plucked from a very long line waiting to enter Willamette Week’s Eat Mobile food cart festival beneath the Morrison Bridge on Saturday afternoon.
Seapker drove up to Portland from her home in Corvallis just for the food festival, but she [...]
Squeeze your mind grapes for “Design on the Vine”
April 19, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
By Erin Flesch, NEAT Contributor
Inspiration often strikes us the hardest after we’ve had a glass or two (or three) of quality vino, which makes the “Design on the Vine” design contest right up our wine-lovin’ alley. Local Portland apparel company I Walk the Vine wants your help designing its next wine themed T-shirt to be sold [...]
Neat STREET style: Mixing it up on Northeast Glisan Street
April 18, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STREET, Neat STUFF
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
When Michelle Gerlach strolled past our sunny table on the patio of Northeast Glisan Street’s new Migration Brewing pub, we were so captivated by her grass green espadrilles we slammed down our happy hour glass to chase her down and ask where she got ‘em.
“I have a passion for shoes,” she said. [...]
Neat STREET style: Colorful good vibes on Mississippi Ave.
April 11, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STREET, Neat STUFF
Laura Bieluczyk was putting off good vibrations when we found her breezing down Mississippi Avenue on Saturday afternoon. This was due in part to a nice lunch she’d just had at Miss Delta with her mom, who was visiting from Houston, Texas, and in part due to the positive energy coming from her pretty stone [...]
Pedal Nation Urban Riders Bicycle Fashion Shows
March 31, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat EVENT
Pedal Nation is gearing up for The Bicycle Show, a weekend’s worth of bike-related exhibitors, speakers and workshops cruising into Oregon Convention Center on Saturday, April 10 and Sunday, April 11.
Chic cyclists will want to roll in for the most fashionable part of the weekend’s events, two Urban Riders Bicycle Fashion Shows to be held at 3 [...]
FREE lunch + spring shoe sale at Solestruck
We’ll keep this short because you really need just two little words: SHOE SALE! Or wait, maybe two more: FREE FOOD!
Solestruck shoes, formerly an online-only footwear retailer based in Portland, opened a sweet Pearl District pop-up shoe shop last fall, and it’s been so successful they’ve decided to keep it open permanently.
Stop by Solestruck from [...]
Hop to it! Win these cute, classic bunny slippers
March 1, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF, Neat WIN
Who knew Portland serves as home base for the world’s premiere online retailer of furry critter slippers?! True that, fur sure!
Ok, technically bunnyslippers.com is headquartered in Sandy, Ore., but close enough. The point is this local company offers online shoppers more than 45 varieties of novelty and animal slippers, including eight different styles of bunny [...]
