Tax-free shopping
When you experience the excessive price points at boutiques like Cusp on M Street, Georgetown shopping can seem like it’s limited to getting fingerprints on the storefront glass.
With a little help from the District of Columbia’s Sales Tax Holiday, though, your window shopping dreams could finally come true.
Washington, D.C., is offering the city’s second Sales [...]
Popularity: 92% [?]
Ahhh… casual and supercasual Fridays
Casual Friday may be the trickiest day to keep it chic in the workplace. How casual can you be? This question makes dressing on a Friday more of a headache than it’s worth. Sometimes you wish you didn’t have the choice and you were just putting on those drab slacks, same as any other day [...]
Popularity: 29% [?]
Peek-a-boos and pit stains: dress shirt faux pas
They are ugly, uncomfortable, and difficult to maintain. The sizing is confusing. They only come in drab pastel colors and look terrible with short sleeves. Most require ironing, tucking in, and the only way to cool off is by rolling up the sleeves.
The ultimate “go-to” work shirt has far too many flaws to be such [...]
Popularity: 42% [?]
Reality strikes: your first suit
As soon to be members of the human rat race, college graduates have to face one inevitable thing—the horror of their first suit.
Now this horror could take a variety of routes. For some it’s the costly price of the suit that strikes fear. For others, the first glimpse of themselves in the suit contorts their [...]
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Buttercream battles: Georgetown Cupcake vs. Love Café
Maybe I’m a sucker for the latest and greatest trends. Maybe it’s the rich butter cream atop a mound of deliciously moist fluffy goodness. Maybe because US Weekly featured them as TomKat’s favorite snack to bring home for baby Suri. Maybe it takes me back to my fifth grade, Disney Princess-themed birthday party. I love [...]
Popularity: 37% [?]