Fashion Forward Bicycling Part 1: Helmets

Sporting apparel is not necessarily the most stylish, it's meant to be functional over fashionable.  Of all the sports, cycling has gotten the worst rap, for it's ultra tight and ahem, very unflattering apparel.  With the recent insurgence of people commuting by bike there has been a plethora of street style photos of women in their fashionable finery perched on the seat of a bike.  While I love that people are being more active and earth friendly by cycling to work, the one major piece of equipment absent from these photos...a helmet!  I know that women riding bikes want to look cute and not arrive with helmet hair to where ever they are going, but not wearing a helmet is dumb and it could be deadly.  Yes you want to look good, but there are some rules to follow when cycling to keep you safe.  In that vein I want to introduce my newest collaborator Thomas Griffin of The Bicycling Gryphon. Tom is here to lay the ground rules for cycling safety.  Together in the next couple of posts we will discuss what to wear, what to watch out for and how to have a safe and stylish journey.

A Haiku to My Favorite Shoes

Now I know from the title alone you probably think that I have gone completely bonkers, but before you assume that I have started writing poetry to all my footwear, let me explain.  The Independent Fashion Bloggers website has been issuing projects each week that challenges members to write about a particular topic.  This week's assignment is to write a Haiku about a piece in your closet that you love. The item of my adoration, my leather French Sole ballet flats. For someone who loves clothes as much as me you would think it would be easy for me to wax poetic about a favorite item, well I'll let you be the judge of my success.

Lovely Caramel

Supple and sweet perfection

Cradle weary feet

I really enjoyed this assignment and look forward to the next project from IFB.  It was something I would not have tried on my own and it gave me an excuse to count syllables on my fingers and use a thesaurus.  To read all the Haiku entries that participants submitted visit The Independent Fashion Bloggers site.  

Outfit Chronicles: Mellow Yellow

They call me Mellow Yellow. They call me Mellow Yellow, quite rightly. Well no one has ever called me mellow... or yellow for that matter.  The sunshiny days of summer are here and to glorify this golden hazy day I felt like donning some clothes in...what else, yellow.