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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...

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.

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...

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: