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Fashion Math: BikePretty deciphers the formula for Hi-Viz style on your bike
Here at BikePretty HQ, we take fashion safety seriously. Now that we’ve all quit Daylight Savings Time cold turkey, slapping on some hi-viz kit is a necessary evil great way to get the attention you deserve during your commute home. "What if I look like a huge dork?" you may be asking yourself. But don’t worry! Just take a page from the workbook of... -
Bike Handsome: I lived with a male model
What's it like to live with a male model? It's effing awesome! I met Mike Thomas when I was living in a converted warehouse turned gallery turned Burning Man artistic abortion. I had moved back to California after living away for about ten years and I didn't really know anyone in town, so moving into a freaky party house seemed like a good idea... -
San Francisco Tweed Ride: Riding the Woolen Legend
On July 28th we grabbed our warm layers and suited up for the first official San Francisco Tweed Ride in nearly two years. It had been so long since the last Tweed ride that when the e-mail arrived, I had forgotten ever signing up for the blasted thing. No, Sir, I thought to myself, I want none of your muted woolens as I wear only... -
In the bins: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' video perfectly captures the feeling of thrifting awesome clothes at second-hand stores
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' new cd, The Heist, will be in stores October 9, 2012. I've shopped at thrift stores for second-hand clothes ever since I was a tiny child and I've never stopped. As a teenager I used to take the train up to San Francisco to visit Clothes Contact on Valencia St. -
Do you like great deals on awesome second-hand clothes? Check out Twice & get the discount
Important announcement: the sweethearts at Twice, an awesome site where you can buy and sell second-hand clothes online, are offering BikePretty.com readers a 10% discount until the end of September. Simply enter the code BIKEPRETTY10 at checkout until 11:59pm PST 9/30. BONUS: If you like the Twice Facebook Page, you can get an extra 20% off as well. BikePretty is going on a shopping spree to... -
An Italian company that actually makes beautiful leather bags for your bicycle
Fun fact: I lived in Italy for three and a half years. The first two I spent in Fashion School and for my last year and a half I worked as an assistant designer for a luxury handbag company. No, not this one or this one. This one. Don't laugh: those are some of my designs in that horrible flash slide show. Speaking of...