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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...

I'm heading out of the city this weekend and I'm most excited about the chance to bare my shoulders to the warm sun, in PORTLAND of all places. Here in San Francisco, it's a nearly constant 63° F year round. Thus I've managed to perfect my cycle chic uniform that gets me to work, on a bike and in style. Bike to Work Uniform...

   Today I received an awesome question on my Twitter account: "Do you have any tips on how to bike in a skirt (other than layering w/shorts)?" -@Twice The short answer is to sport an A-line skirt, much like this one:

These beautiful wooden bike-pedals caught my eye a while back. They are handmade in Arezzo, Italy, a teeny-tiny town in Tuscany. I passed through there on my way to the Perugia Chocolate festival a few years ago and found it to be typically charming and very sleepy on a Sunday afternoon. The pedals are made of beech wood by local artisans under the label...

Bow ties and tight lacing at San Francisco Tweed Ride San Francisco's Tweed Ride proved to be the best occasion to give my cycling corset a proper airing. Fortunately, The Bold Italic showed up.

Kelly's Cycle-in-Style Summer tip no. 1: "Layer a 50s/60s-era beach romper over padded bike shorts for a long-ride look that's both quirky and practical. I love me a good vintage romper. Felt like a genius when I realized it was perfect for cycling. They're actually more useful for that, as you and I both know how much I go to the beach (um never)...