Ready to Wear, If I Can Find It: Shopping for My Personal Style

My fashion role model is a 40ish woman I saw several years ago walking through a square in the Renaissance town of Conegliano, Italy, just an hour or so north of Venice. The beautiful hilly town, part of a wealthy section of the Veneto, enjoys a diversified economy based in wine, textiles, shipping, and manufacturing, and many of the residents look like fashion plates. The time was autumn and the town was wrapping up a mushroom festival when I noticed this woman strolling through the square. She had longish dark blonde hair, pulled back in a loose ponytail, and she was wearing straight-leg blue jeans, a fitted tweed jacket of autumn colors, an artfully wrapped dark green scarf around her neck (could have been pashmina) and on her feet, she had on drop-dead gorgeous Italian boots. She looked confident. I think that it helped that she was tall, but maybe the boots (I think they were Salvatore Ferragamos) gave her the illusion at least of being tall in the saddle.

Images: Zooming in on the Empire State Building this morning, and a little cut and paste for my WOTBA paper doll.
See the follow-up post: Gucci, Prada and Pucci on Fifth Avenue: Thoughts Outside the Box.
I love the Housing Works on W. 10th -- a tad pricey, but still often more interesting styles than rows and rows of retail offerings. I haven't been to the Upper East Side location, but I bet it's pretty good, too. Whenever I go to Manhattan, I hit the vintage shops. Of course, the HW Bookstore is amazing, too, and for such good cause.
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