SUSTAINING SUMMER

One of us good girls at Thread Ethic is in denial that fall is approaching. She saw Tera here and wanted everything about her outfit to be locked in time. The warmth, the perfect late summer weather, the slight cool breeze; the bright yellow, nautical stripes, boat shoes, and bright orange accessories... it all just needs to remain in a capsule for the perfection of late summer. Boating, beaches, picnics and pools are coming to an end. Isn't this just a bit sad? We think so. Anyway, enough of the summer nostalgia, Tera's pants and amazing cat eye sunglasses are Urban Outfitters, shirt is Forever 21, shoes and bracelet are H&M. We're excited to see what she may do with the yellow pants come fall. Fur anyone?

TECHNICOLOR ACCESSORIES

Brights, brights and more brights my friends. What better way could there be to get in on this trend than with your accessories? These stylish girls show exactly how to go bright, right.

COLOR COORDINATED

Color was everywhere at FW - even apparently in the form of green lipstick. Even though we're not going to be sporting any green makeup, we definitely love this beautiful gold blouse (which I happened to see being sold at Zara, in case you want to run out and get one yourself, but a modest girl might need to put a little underpinning, or liner, in the drop V back) blue pencil skirt and purple bag combination.

FRESH

This is me, having some fun at fashion week. I asked another photographer there if he wouldn't mind taking a couple shots on my camera for me and he graciously agreed. He took the camera and told me to look off in the distance very dramatically. Seeing as he was doing me a favor - and seemed like a guy who liked drama and wasn't going to take the shot until I did - I am indeed looking off at the banners hanging from the Metropolitan Opera House. Interestingly, other fashion bloggers at FW also took some photos of this look (which was kind of cool...) and one of them was kind enough to let me know when the shot was up on her blog. You can view it here. Some of the photographers referred to the pastel palette of this look as "so fresh!", and thus you have the title of this post! Thread Ethic was also recently featured on the blog Clothed Much.

PLATFORMS

Now it's time to share some shots we took at Spring 2012 Fashion Week! We will be showing more of our favorite Fashion Week fashionista looks in upcoming posts as well.

It would only take two seconds at Fashion Week for a girl to realize that platforms are not going anywhere, anytime soon. Platform booties, platform gladiators, wedges, stilettos with platforms...you name it, they were everywhere! We had heard rumors in the past few seasons that the kitten heel, or other heel heights, might be edging the platform out but we are here to tell you that almost every stylish girl we saw was wearing some type of platform. Aside from discomfort and possibly foot surgery when one is in their 50's, why shouldn't a girl wear a platform? The platform promises to make us taller, longer, slimmer, appear more toned and, honestly, it usually does all those things. So we say hang on to your platforms and enjoy those extra 5 inches at least another season or two, maybe longer (or until you just can't take the pain anymore...whichever comes first).

MIXING TRENDS

The two of us girls at Thread Ethic were invited to a fashion show at Lincoln Center as part of Fashion Week. We've been to Fashion Week before, first as musician guests, and then to grace the runway as performers. But this time we were invited as fashion bloggers. Can you imagine? Two modest girls playing dress up get invited to Fashion Week. Seeing as only one of us at Thread Ethic lives in New York City and could actually go to the show, I was the lone representative from our little fashion outpost here. We will have more pictures to come, of course! But first, a girl has to figure out what to wear to an event like this. Here's what we came up with - a little moto, a little pleated midi-length skirt, a blousey-blouse (how many trends can we work at once here people!) and some killer bootie heels. Fashion Week here we come!