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You Can Still Benefit (from) Earth Day!

Because recycling/upcycling/donating is the best. Mail in any secondhand athletic apparel (any brand) to GRACEDBYGRIT by May 1, and you get 40% off one item! They are donating everything to the Community Resource Center in Encinitas, a center aiding women, children and victims of domestic violence. All you have to do to get the discount…

Over it. Leggings.

You guys. Some top-ranking keywords driving traffic to this site: leggins* and long dress leggings+corti what to wear with leggings in the summer *fact. no g YOU GUYS. First, don’t ever wear leggings and a long dress. That’s just stupid, unless it’s cold outside and no one will ever see the “leggins”. Second, don’t ever…

Straight From a Fella’s Mouth: Yoga Pants

Introducing a new sporadic series that cannot be planned (think: Compliment or Insult), entitled Straight From a Fella’s Mouth, where we reprint here some amazing gems of … wisdom/stupidity/hilarity straight from a fella’s mouth. The fella will remain anonymous, but all of female-kind will benefit. Male-kind, you will learn what not to say … On Yoga…

How to Wear Crazy Leggings

You know how crazy-printed leggings are on all the shopping sites and in the mags, but you never see them executed (well) in real life? Well, here’s how to wear crazy leggings without looking crazy. It’s as easy as pairing with classics: chambray (or another comfy but crisp top) and riding boots.

Fair Isle

Love it. Nothing says winter like Fair Isle print. Not just for sweaters! In fact, knit pjs, skirt, or keds are our fave picks … and the only sweaters have modern spins on the classic print.

Leggings. Revisited. Again.

I don’t understand how there is so much confusion over leggings. They are not hard. In fact, that is the whole point of leggings—to be easy to wear, easy to style. It is said that the Aspen uniform in the winter is skinny lululemon yoga pants (NO visible logos), a tunic sweater, riding boots, a…

Lisse Leggings + A Summer How-to-Wear

Leggings … that most-lambasted, favored by many a starlet, pants-substitute. It took me a little while to come around to the legging (and even longer to accept jeggings as part of my life). As summer approaches, what, erm, leg does the legging have to stand on? See, summer leggings are what caused my initial legging…

Let’s Talk About Jeggings

[12/21/10: UPDATE: In the most recently compiled NPD research, sales of jeggings in the U.S. rose by 103 percent and it is women between the ages of 12 and 29 that account for the largest share of those purchases. “Jeggings have grown in popularity over the last 12 to 18 months as the skinny jean trend gained…

Leggings: A Tutorial

Dedicated to my mom, who has abstained from leggings for over a year just because I said so. I just got back from a week in Colorado (blame the Vermonster), and I am pretty sure that I rocked the leggings/boots combo for over 50% of the time. Little-known perk of cold-weather dressing: you can wear…