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70′s are back baby!

The 70’s are back! Mar 17, 2011 by The Dress Recycler The fashion cycle keeps repeating itself, and this spring the trends give an honorable nod to the 1970s. This spring, designers are showing the softer side of the 1970s with large blouse bows, tweed skirts and large platform heels. If the thought of your [...]

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Dressrecycler on Location; Country Music Hall of Fame

The best thing about the Country Music Hall of fame in Nashville is the costumes. Dresses, jackets and cowboy boots from every artist that ever was.   I was in heaven. I had the best time in the WORLD viewing all of these historic costumes of the Country Music Industry.  What an honor to be able [...]

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Greenpoint Gazette: Living in the Hipster World

Whether or not you consider yourself current with today’s fashion and style, you can’t help but to be influenced somewhat by your surroundings, fashionably speaking. If you live in a neighborhood like Williamsburg, Greenpoint or Bushwick, then you understand the demographic of the businesses of the neighborhood in which you reside. The hipster movement started [...]

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The ’20 are Back!

Back to Governor’s Island this weekend!  The 20′s came back with a vengence at the Jazz Age Lawn Party with flappers, beads, straw hats and the Charleston.  Dapper Dandy was there as was Michael Arenella & His Dreamland Orchestra.  Fabulous! NICE FLASK!

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The Print Diary Volume 4: Floral Prints

Florals, florals all day long.   Nothing brightens up a room like a pretty girl in a floral print dress.  Here are some different categories of florals that I have chosen that qualify as my top faves: From the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibit: Balenciaga  A vintage all over rose bunch floral print [...]

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