Bluet New York

Bluet New York is the destination holiday shop for all you fashionable girls. These say it all:

Handbags:

Shoe clips, grosgrain belt & pin;

Dresses and T's:

Designed and handmade by a mother/daughter team and produced in New York, I'm totally sold. It's not easy to find well-made, high quality clothing and accessories for manageable prices, but to find all this in a unique local store is an even bigger plus. The flower accessories are made with Japanese satins and French grosgrain, and most of the clothing is 100% Pima cotton. Me, I want a T-shirt, the Vionet dress and the black and white flower pin. Oh, and throw in the orange caterpillar clutch as its color and styling is the perfect blend of vintage and modern. And I'm not going to see every girl in town carrying it on the subway.

Dresses: $70 - $120

T's: $20 - $35

Tops & blouses: $60 - $75

Handbags: $70 - $200

Shoe clips: $30 - $60

Bluet New York, shop directory coming soon!

Cuff Them

Market shopping is for the great, unusual find. At Taara, the wrist cuffs ($25) are one of these delights. Buy these for a trendy niece (they could have walked off a Gaulthier runway) or any crunchy punk rocker with whom you may be acquainted. They will think you are so cool.

(red cuffs below left, green cuffs below right, with flower pins, $15)

Taara's products are handmade Estonian, and the scarves, too, are so cool. There are heavy, organic ones (below left, $40) which will look fantastic with black anything and jeans, and the dressier, delicate thin-as-silk ones (below right, $60). These are thin because traditionally, in Estonia, they were worn pulled through a ring. Hmm, I see Estonian scarf rings in Taara's future...

Taara, B8 on the venue guide