Looking back at my 2018 travels, returning to New York City nearly 13 years after my first adventure there — as a 17-year-old high school senior bumming around the famous sites with her parents — meant rediscovering a city I sort of knew alongside my … Read more2018: My favorite places to eat (New York edition)
It’s officially the holiday season — and I’m excited to share another Instagram giveaway for you all, my awesome team of supportive readers, thanks to the generosity of the Macy’s beauty team in Castleton. This week’s prize package includes about $300 worth of beauty products … Read moreHoliday 2018 giveaways
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
There’s nothing like the buzz of a runway show. Maybe I’m biased, as a fashionista and former (local) model, but the energy is always something else, like a pulsating aura of colors reflected off lights and fabrics and sequins and the emotions of the crowd. … Read moreMidwest Fashion Week (F/W 18)
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
If there’s a new sweets spot in town, you know I’ll sniff it out immediately. (Consider me a sweet-tooth hounddog.) After a few months of delays, Macaron Bar‘s first location in Indiana is open for business on Massachusetts Avenue across the street from BRU Burger … Read moreMacaron Bar
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