Some Recent Peacock Parade Purchases

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ShareThis post is a long time coming as some of the purchases came over two weeks ago!  Since I signed up for the flash sale site,  Peacock Parade back in the fall, I had mostly been buying dresses.  Lately, it has been tops – ones that I can wear into spring and even summer.  The [...]

Should H&M Have a Petite Line?

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ShareI saw a Tweet from @hmusa recently about the fact that the plus department in the US is rebranding from Big & Beautiful to the more appropriate H&M+ name.  Sizes this department will carry will range between 14 and 24.  While I knew that H&M had plus sizes, I can’t help but wonder if they’ll [...]

NYFW: 1960s Betsey Mania!

ShareWith a theme of 1960s London, going into the disco era of the 1970s, Betsey Johnson’s Fall/Winter 2012 collection opens with a short video of girls screaming at who’s presumably The Beatles.  The collection was full of bright colours, miniskirts, floppy hats, chunky sweater dresses and po’boy caps we see a typical Betsey production of [...]

Petite Friendliness and Hervé Léger: A Total Yay?

ShareI like much of the collection, especially the pairing of the dresses with tall boots (this style is pretty much all I wear in the winter.  Glad to see that I won’t look out of place next year – lol).  Most of the skirt lengths are above the knee, which means that they’d be right [...]

BCBGMaxAzria F/W 2012: Yay or Nay?

Share So New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week started yesterday, presenting collections for the upcoming Fall/Winter 2012 season.  As with previous seasons, many of the shows were streamed online, including BCBGMaxAzria.  Though I really like the colour blocking, palette and found the designs to be better than past seasons, the skirt lengths, as usual, were really [...]

January Poll Results: Are You A Member of Any Flash Sale Sites?

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ShareLast month, we asked you whether you were members of any flash sale sites.  It was kind of surprising to find that more than 41% (41.2%, actually) of you didn’t know what they were, since so many people have been talking about them over the past few months.  Some of you, at 29.4% said that [...]

J.Crew Opening Another Toronto Store

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ShareIn case you haven’t caught my post over at DelectablyChic!, J.Crew is opening another Toronto location at the Eaton Centre later this year!  Other stores slated to hit the downtown mall include Express, Pink (opening across from sister store, Victoria’s Secret) and Juicy Couture.   What stores would YOU like to see in Toronto?  What [...]

Maybelline: Toronto Fashion Week’s New Make-Up Sponsor

ShareYou might have already read my post at DelectablyChic! about MasterCard being Toronto Fashion Week’s new title sponsor, but this morning, I found out that L’Oreal has been replaced as well. The new cosmetics sponsor is Maybelline!  Maybelline is the official make-up sponsor for Fashion Weeks around the world, including Berlin and of course, New [...]

Chinese New Year Dinner at the 360 Restaurant: What I Wore

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ShareMy family went to the 360 Restaurant, a revolving restaurant at the CN Tower for our annual “spin of luck and good fortune” dinner.  This is a tradition that we have continued to do for over The dinner was absolutely amazing (we were very lucky to go on a clear night so we got an [...]

Are You on Pinterest?

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ShareShorty Stories is!  Or rather, Shorty Stories shares it with DelectablyChic!.  Pinterest, if you don’t already know, is one of the hottest social sharing sites right now, allowing people to “pin”  things they find on the web,organize them into different “boards” and share them with their friends.  You have to be invited (or request an [...]

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