What are your holiday traditions? For my husband and I, one of our favorites is adding ornaments from the places we’ve traveled that year to our Christmas tree. (This year, we’re adding ones from my 30th birthday in St. Joseph, Michigan, and our trip to … Read moreAn Old Hollywood Christmas
ABOVE: Designer Brooke with her suede messenger bags Brooke Lindemann can credit her foray into leatherworking to an unlikely source: her mischievous dog. After she found the leather fringe on her favorite pair of boots chewed up, Brooke opted to fix them herself instead of … Read moreFACES OF FASHION: Leather Feather Stone
… And here it is! Happy Halloween from IndyDressed and the zombie bride of Frankenstein. May you all find yourself with a bag of treats instead of rocks (Charlie Brown reference) and only as much thrilling fear as you can handle. 😉
Halloween is one of my favorite days. Not for the supernatural thrillers that give me nightmares for a month straight, or even necessarily for the unofficial start of the eat-everything-in-sight season. What I love most is the fantasy, the ability to dress up as someone … Read moreHalloween Part 1: Calling all warrior princesses
On a surprisingly chilly September evening, more than a thousand Hoosiers — dressed in their finest white suits and cocktail dresses — emerged from dozens of coach buses and converged on the hallowed Yard of Bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, tables and chairs in … Read morePosh plates and dinner dates
When hunting for apples for a pommes de terre recipe from Michel Roux’s “The Essence of French Cooking,” it’s only appropriate to wear Parisian-inspired designs, oui? Maybe not my most logical outfit, but a trip to Stuckey Farms was the perfect opportunity to officially usher in fall … Read moreApples and fashion, the French way
What do you do when your trip to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child coincides with New York Fashion Week? Wear a celestial dress Professor Trelawney would approve of, paired with a Horcrux handbag, of course. Continue scrolling to see more of my experience … Read moreBroadway magic
Where can you play in a bathtub ball pit surrounded by Balenciaga handbags, pretend you’re an outlaw in the Wild Wild West wearing Givenchy cowboy boots and strut your stuff along a tinsel-lined runway? At the Saks #ItList Townhouse, a $31 million townhouse on Washington Place that was … Read moreNew York: Saks It List Townhouse
It doesn’t feel like New York Fashion Week until you’re dressed to the nines and sitting on the side of a runway, ready to capture a collection for an Instagram story. (Or, in my case, wielding a huge Nikon DLSR camera to get some detail … Read moreNew York: Style Fashion Week
When that strange-yet-nostalgic scent combination of fresh popcorn and livestock wafts through the neighborhoods near 38th Street in sizzling-hot August, you know it’s time for the Indiana State Fair. With new foodie adventures — deep-fried sugar cream pie, anyone? — and even a new fashion … Read moreStep right up: #FairFashionFridays