Posts with tag retro

While the season's hottest hue might be purple, gray is coming in a very close second, and with good reason. It's neutral enough to go with practically everything, it can go casual or dressy, and in the right shade, it can work with any skin tone.

If you're trying to incorporate some vintage appeal into your daily style, you might luck out and have pieces that were handed down to you from grandmothers or aunts. Or, perhaps you have a talent for shopping in thrift stores and have found a few authentic items that you just love. But some of us aren't so lucky or talented.

Are you mad for the style of Mad Men? Are you sad that the second season's over? So are we - but we're not going to sit around moping until next season starts! Instead, we've collected modern day interpretations of some of our favorite characters' style so we can look the part even if we can't enjoy the high jinks at Sterling Cooper.

Joan Holloway is the office sexpot - she drives men wild just by entering (or more likely, exiting) a room. Her style is an alluring combination of buttoned-up professionalism and body conscious dresses in confident brights. If you want to show off the fact that you're All Woman (caps intended) look for simple silhouettes that emphasize the waist, but never ever show cleavage. That's too easy.

The key to Joan's style is confidence - she's smart enough to use her gifts, both physical and intellectual, to her advantage. Don't be afraid to do the same.

Fans of Mad Men no doubt had their DVRs at the ready to record Jon Hamm's first SNL appearance. (Ahem.) We weren't disappointed - especially when he poked fun at his dark and outrageously sexy alter ego, Don Draper.

"Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women" was spot on, and the funny thing is that most of his suggestions will work. Just trust us on this. You too, can be Don Draper - and StyleList can help, to a point - when it comes to lying to everyone about everything and disappearing for weeks at a time? Well, then you're on your own.

They just don't make shoes like they used to. Unless, of course, you order a pair of handcrafted, custom made shoes, like these amazing 1930s inspired derbies. The shoes are made to fit your personal foot measurements and tracings, and since they're custom made just for you they can be modified with different options such as other colors or toe shapes. More custom shoe styles are also available.

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We love all of the amazing independent designers out there and we wanted to find out more about what makes these creative types tick. If you do too, check out more of our Indie Designer Interviews.

Today we'd like to introduce Megan Burgess, the young designer behind Lemonade Accessories, a line of retro-inspired bags, headbands, scarves and more.

With cooler weather coming just around the corner, we've noticed that all of the conditions are right for a sweaterific fall and winter for men's fashion. Cardigans, turtlenecks, and yes, even the nerdiest of all -- sweater vests -- seem to be turning up in all sorts of fall collections. While the sweater vest is an easy way to add some colorful layers to your wardrobe, we kinda have to wonder if men are really going to embrace the sweater vest this season -- or if that's just wishful thinking.

From what we've gathered, this year's sweater vest look is all about the pattern -- and the nerdier the better. Forget solids or pinstripes, its all about checks, argyles, or a bold houndstooth. Basically, anything reminiscent of an ugly retro sweater that your parents dressed you in as a toddler. We like the depth that a SV can bring to an outfit, but we don't expect to see many on the street. What do you think? Is the sweater vest going to be a hot item this fall?

Maybe this is our fault for thinking we were bored with Christina Aguilera's sexy retro look. That matte red lipstick and old-fashioned hair that was, frankly, kinda aging her. But mostly it worked for her, and at least she had some dignity to go with her world class talent.

Gallery: Half-naked on the red carpet: Who's revealing too much?

We should have realized that the old Xtina would bust out (cough cough) soon enough.

So what is she wearing here? This looks like the "Sexy Spider Web" costume from the Halloween Store. Those stripes turn her gorgeous curves into bottom heavy saddle bags of doom!

Then there is her hair and make up. It's a look straight out of the Donatella Versace School of Understated Klass, minus the spray tan. An understandable omission. A working mother doesn't have time to fake bake.

In the gallery, more views and angles, for better or worse, of the New Christina Aguilera.

We love all of the amazing independent designers out there and we wanted to find out more about what makes these creative types tick. If you do too, check out more of our Indie Designer Interviews.

If you long for the days of the mixed tape and prefer a well-loved boombox to the ubiquitous iPod, then today's featured indie designer is right up your alley. Meet Debbie Kelly of Custom Ink, an Edinburgh, Scotland based line of cassette tape belt buckles, kitschy accessories and original artwork perfect for the 80s child in you.

Honestly, it's been quite a few years since we've put any effort into finding Waldo. You know, once we left elementary school, he really just kind of fell off our map ... until now.

The normally elusive Striped One was strangely conspicuous this weekend in the front row at Charlotte Ronson's show. Of course, perhaps he figured that with Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson in the audience, nobody would see him. And if that was the case, he was almost right. Although, sitting right next to Jessica Szohr of Gossip Girl didn't exactly get him out of the paparazzi's sight.

We love all of the amazing independent designers out there. In order to find out more about just what makes all of these creative types tick, we present to you an ongoing segment called Indie Designer Interviews.

We'd like you to meet handbag designer Lesia Griffin of 144 Collection. Lesia creates one-of-a-kind custom handbags and accessories as well as limited edition bags in a variety of eye-catching prints and styles.

We can't deny that we love watching a college football game and seeing the stands filled with school colors and pictures of mascots -- it creates this amazing feeling of team spirit and unity, and we're complete suckers for it. However, it's really unfortunate that so many college tees seem to cram as many images and words and ridiculously bright colors onto the front and back of each shirt as possible. Spirited, these shirts might be, but they are also ugly.

If you're opting to wear a t-shirt representing your school, find one that stands out. The old-school mascots and vintage tees are still very in, whether it was your mom's shirt from the seventies or you just bought it new.