Jerry Bistline spent most of Saturday at his coffee shop on Richmond’s North Side, waiting for the power to fail.

But the lights at Stir Crazy Café on MacArthur Avenue stayed on, leading to booming business Sunday and Monday as Richmonders went searching for a place to eat, to connect to the Internet, to charge their mobile devices, to conduct their business and to escape the heat.

Sales were generally strong at area retailers and restaurants like Stir Crazy Café that had electricity Monday, especially at hardware and grocery stores as shoppers picked up essentials.

But stores without power missed out on much-needed businesses, owners and managers said.

Tricia Alford, owner of Buttons & Bows, a children’s clothing and gift store in the Ridge Shopping Center on Parham Road, said her business has now lost three days of revenue because of the storm.

She opened her shop Monday, but customer traffic was very light, coming mostly from people leaving the nearby Panera Bread store that operated with a generator.

“The money from this (past) weekend was supposed to cover end-of-the-month payroll, and now it’s lost,” she said. “My sales are maybe 15 or 20 percent of what’d they’d normally be.”

The biggest problem, she said, was that Hurricane Irene hit during what should have been a busy back-to-school shopping weekend.

“We would have sold 100 pairs of shoes over the weekend normally, and we’ve sold none,” Alford said. “This is an unfortunate time for this to happen.”

Major grocers saw mixed results on the power front. Of Kroger’s 16 area stores, 13 were open by Monday afternoon. the remaining three were expected to open Monday night.

A Food Lion spokeswoman said about six of the company’s 30 Richmond-area stores were closed.

All of Martin’s Food Markets stores were open Monday, but three operated with backup generators. Those stores were unable to sell frozen food and dairy products until full power is restored.

Many businesses along Parham Road from Interstate 64 to Patterson Avenue in Henrico County were without power, including Regency Square mall. the mall plans to reopen today, assuming power is restored. the nearby Walmart also remained closed.

Stony Point Fashion Park also was closed Monday but planned to open today if power was restored.

Virginia Center Commons in northern Henrico had half of its power restored, primarily around the food court and the Burlington Coat Factory store. the mall hoped to have the rest of its electricity fixed by Monday night.

Short Pump Town Center and Chesterfield Towne Center opened Sunday.

In eastern Henrico, the Shops at White Oak Village shopping center was without power, though large retailers such as Target, Lowe's, Martin’s and Sam's Club were open and using their own generators.

Area Home Depot stores remained busier than normal for a Monday as consumers tried cleaning up from Hurricane Irene. Demand has been high for typical recovery items such as chainsaws, trash bags, wet/dry vacs, sump pumps, dehumidifiers, generators and cleaning and sanitary supplies, spokesman Stephen Holmes said.

“Prior to the storm, people were buying some items like generators as soon as they arrived at the store,” Holmes said.

Sarah Alderson, a freelance writer and producer, usually works from home. but with the lights still out, she was holed up at Stir Crazy on Monday.

“It’s been really helpful, and I’ve actually gotten some work done,” she said.

Sammy Marques, a carpenter, came to Stir Crazy to avoid going stir crazy in his Ginter Park house.

“My shop is behind my house, and the door is electronically controlled,” he said. “So I can’t even get my rake to clean the yard; I’m just totally incapacitated.”

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THIRUANANTHAPURAM: The very idea was as cinematic as it can ever be. a group of youngsters, who have never known each other before, meet in a film camp. on the final day of the camp, one among them comes up with the idea of a film. The rest readily agrees and part with a promise to raise the required money for their film. Eight months pass by and the pals keep their promise and meet again with the script and money. two days of production and a week-long post production work, the youngsters realise their dream.thus runs the ‘behind the screen tale’ of a short-film titled ‘Daivathinte Noolpavakal’, a film on cancer patients which has been produced by a batch of college students. The preview of the film will be held at Kalabhavan theatre here on August 26.The credit list of the film leaves the producer column blank simply because of the long list. The major contributor is the director himself, Arun a R, a native of Thiruvananthapuram, who even forsake his engineering studies to do catering and other minor jobs to raise Rs 25,000.The other men even went a step further. Wilson B and Sudeep P T, both hailing from Idukki, sold tapioca, pepper and other agricultural yield which they cultivated themselves to shell out Rs 10,000.another crew member Sabin Das, an undergraduate from Kozhikode, somehow managed to give his share of Rs 8000.”Sabin Das does not even have electric supply at his home. but he took up all sorts of jobs to make sure that he also contributed,’’ says Arun, who has now joined Mar Ivanios college as a visual communication student after quitting engineering studies in the second year.it was Arun who broached the idea of a film at the end of the camp held in the capital about eight months ago. he had a story drawn in his mind about the cancer patients. The boy kept calling his friends reminding them that they should meet again in the capital with their money within six months after they had parted.The boys did meet and the twist in the tale happened when television cameraman Kalliyoor Jayachandran chanced upon the boys who could then bring serial artiste Valiyasala Ramesh to do the lead role. The film also has a big surprise in the form of Kailasehwar, the little boy coming from the family of Kottarakara Sreedharan Nair. Kailaseshwar plays a cancer-afflicted patient in the film.

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ALEX Cornish, a British singer-songwriter, is struggling. he has watched his music being downloaded thousands of times for nothing. he is brilliant, but not rich. He's in trouble. "If just a small percentage of those who are sharing my music online pay for it," he writes, "I will be able to get to work on my new record . . ."

The problem, as the problem has been for years, is that countless music fans are not used to paying for anything online. they do not see it as theft, they see it as free. now, though, with the rise of the smartphone, there is a way for the industry to fight back, offering bigger, better, and brighter ways of enjoying music through apps. Leading the way, as she so often has, is Bjork.

The Icelandic singer’s new album, Biophilia, is released next month both conventionally and as a series of 10 apps. an interactive experience of music, videos and games, Biophilia is the world’s "first iPad album". in an interview on Twitter (where else?), Bjork says: "I’ve tried the hardest I can to make the album in a way that it can stand on its own or be connected to apps. I like to encourage the fans to buy only what they want." the key word being "buy".

Music has always been largely dependent on the means available to distribute it — the three-minute pop song is a direct result of radio determining that to be a good length for attention spans. then there were music videos. then there was the CD. "So, take that notion, introduce all kinds of amazing technological innovation and, all of a sudden, we can do so much more than just deliver a CD with 12 or 15 songs on it," says Ole Obermann, senior vice-president of international digital business for Sony Music Entertainment. "the magic of the app is that it completely reinvents the creative product that the artist can deliver to fans."

One band Sony works with is Slayer, the American thrash-metal favourites who hardly look like techie types, but who had a pinball app developed for their 11th album, World Painted Blood. on sale for $2.99, it plays snippets of the record as the game progresses, and with close to 100,000 sold, it is clear this is revenue for the music industry that would not exist without the new platform.

As Bjork puts it: "People get scared when the new thing is invented, because they think it will erase the previous one, but they all co-exist."

Such paid-for apps are just one way smartphones are helping the industry. Another, the largest revenue generator, is subscription services such as Spotify, for which customers pay to receive songs on their handheld device. a third format is free-to-user apps.

"It’s the convenience factor of having all an artist’s media at the click of a button, all stored on your phone and really easy to access — all the music, videos, photographs, tour dates," says Stephen O’Reilly, director of international sales for Mobile Roadie, whose apps include ones for Madonna, the Beatles and Take that, the last of which was downloaded 250,000 times last year. "You can check in at a show via Facebook, get exclusive tracks, get a discount off a T-shirt, things that you can’t do on a website."

Of course, that is 250,000 times free, but, as O’Reilly says: "Fans don’t want to pay to enter the store, they want to have a look around." Inside the app the links to iTunes reap revenue, to the ker-ching of more than $140,000 in less than a year for a Taylor Swift app that cost $1000 to build.

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MSI’s latest gaming notebook, the MSI GT683R, will catch your eye with its flashy LEDs, but it’ll keep you interested with its speedy performance. This gaming powerhouse is one of the first laptops to ship with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 560M graphics card, and it features all sorts of boosts such as MSI’s Turbo Drive Engine technology (for overclocking) and cooler Boost technology (for controlling the fans with a single touch).

Our review model, priced at $1450, came packed with a second-generation Intel Core i7-2630QM processor, a whopping 12GB of RAM (upgradable to 32GB), an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M graphics card, and 1TB of hard-drive space spread over two drives. The GT683R also features a built-in 720p HD webcam, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a DVD-RW drive, and 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.

The GT683R performs quite well, even for the desktop replacement category. This should come as no surprise, considering the GT683R is designed for gamers. in PCWorld’s WorldBench 6 benchmark tests, the GT683R scored an impressive 146. This is one of the fastest desktop replacement laptops we’ve tested, though not the fastest (that distinction goes to the Origin EON 17-S). It is perhaps best compared to the Dell XPS 17 3D.

The Nvidia GeForce 560M graphics card gave the GT683R a boost in our graphics tests. in our Far Cry 2 test (high-quality settings, 1920 by 1080 resolution), the GT683R managed a frame rate of 47 frames per second. by comparison, the Dell XPS 17 3D managed only 30.8 frames per second with the same settings.

The GT683R is housed in an average-looking black chassis. The notebook’s cover is made of shiny black plastic and features some aerodynamic-looking molding with an MSI logo in the middle. It looks a bit cheap, but it does grow on you. The machine isn’t exactly svelte: The system weighs around 7.5 pounds and is 2.16 inches thick.

The inside of the notebook is more attractive. The keyboard is full-size, with a number pad and island-style keys. The deck is shiny and gray, and features a honeycomb texture. Above the keyboard is a shield-shaped power button, along with several touch buttons: Turbo, extra cooling, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles, Eco mode, and LED controls.

That’s a pretty typical chassis, right? until you turn the machine on, that is. The GT683R adds pizzazz with funky orange LED lightstrips–one is on the cover, plus two on either side of the screen and two on the front (below the keyboard) of the machine. The lights are bright, but are thankfully situated out of the way, so they won’t bother you while you’re working or gaming (though they will look pretty awesome to people sitting around you). MSI includes software for tweaking the lights (choosing different performance modes, say), but when I tried to use it, all I managed to get was an error message stating, “LED light manager not supported.”

Port-wise, the GT863R is set up like the gaming machine/desktop-replacement that it is. Several of the key ports, such as ethernet, VGA, eSATA, and HDMI are located on the back of the machine, while the sides are dedicated to USB ports, card slots, and audio jacks. It has only four USB ports, though two are USB3.0, which is nice. There’s a multi-in-one card reader (SD/MMC/MS/XD) on the left side, and microphone/headphone/line-in/line-out jacks on the right side.

The GT683R’s keyboard is, as mentioned earlier, full-size with a number pad and island-style keys. The keyboard is mostly comfortable to type on–the keys are widely spaced and feature a nice amount of tactile feedback. Still, it’s a little flimsier than I usually like, and therefore not ideal for lengthy typing sessions.

Below the keyboard and slightly off-center is a medium-sized touchpad with a black matte surface. The touchpad isn’t nearly as comfortable as the keyboard. It’s ever-so-slightly too small, and the matte surface makes it difficult to move the mouse smoothly across the screen. Add a brushed aluminum rocker bar that’s hard to press–instead of discrete mouse buttons–and it’s generally not a fun experience.

The GT683R sports a glossy 15.6-inch full HD screen, which has a native resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. The screen is nice and bright, and throws back surprisingly few reflections despite being glossy. Colors tend to look a little washed out, though–a little more contrast and darker blacks would be good. The screen is also a little too bright, even at the lowest brightness setting.

Because the GT683R is billed as a gaming machine, its speakers are slightly better than what you’ll find in most laptops. Only slightly, though. The two HD speakers and the subwoofer make for decently loud and full sound, but it’s still not loud enough to compete with regular desktop speakers. However, remember that the GT683R has line-in and line-out jacks, along with microphone/audio jacks, so you’re not dependent on the built-in speakers.

MSI’s GT683R is definitely a powerful machine, but its peripherals (built-in as they are) leave something to be desired. This is a desktop replacement, so it’s likely you’ll have an external mouse, keyboard, and even speakers, but it’d be nice if these felt like an option rather than a necessity.

T-shirt printing famous horror characters provides a creative resource for t-shirt artists. Horror movies are a popular film genre with a wide range of subcategories that mix horror with another genre, such as horror comedy, romantic horror, or horror sci-fi.

Artists can create printed men’s t-shirts, printed girls’ t-shirts and printed hooded tops with designs for a horror movie theme, featuring famous classic characters like Dracula and Frankenstein, or modern horror villains like Freddie Krueger and Jason Voorhees.

T-Shirt Printing with a Classic Horror Theme

Of all the classic horror characters, the most popular are Dracula and Frankenstein. the tale of a bloodsucker from Transylvania had been retold many times in different mediums, from literature to film and TV.

There are many spin-offs to this tale, and the vampire myth has expanded and grown from numerous books and movies created.

The tale of a man made monster made alive by an accidental surge of lightning is as fascinating as an immortal man who needs human blood to live. Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, is actually the name of the mad doctor who created the monster.

T-shirt printing with these characters in mind is a fun project to do. Images of popular classic horror characters may be screen printed in different ways, like cartoons, sketches or photos. These designs may be printed on printed girls’ t-shirts, printed men’s t-shirts or printed hooded tops.

T-Shirt Printing with Modern Horror Characters

The most popular villains in modern horror movies are Freddie Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Freddie Krueger attacks his victims in their sleep, while Jason Voorhees kills teenagers after they have committed an immoral or socially unacceptable act, like using drugs or engaging in premarital sex.

Classic horror films are not as terrifying as modern horror movies. the black and white images are not filled with blood and gore, unlike modern horror films. Some modern horror films include nudity and simulated sex in their scenes to attract adult moviegoers.

Even the avant-garde horror films like SAW, which combines psychological elements with horrific images, show too much blood and skin. Sci-fi and fantasy horror films, such as “Thirteen Ghosts,” sometimes cannot avoid including nudity in its scenes. One ghost, a woman whose naked body was covered in blood, appeared in key scenes of the film.

Printing t-shirts with these designs always include the image of dripping blood. Freddie Krueger with his trademark glove with claws and the masked Jason Voorhees with his bloody machete are not fit designs for printed kids’ t-shirts.

Horror comedies and romantic horror movies, like “Casper” and Eddie Murphy’s “Vampire in Brooklyn,” are rated General Patronage. Printed t-shirts with GP designs are fit for any demographic in t-shirt printing.

Although horror movies are scary, the t-shirt designs that one can create from these movies are definitely a challenge for any t-shirt printing artist. Cartoonish or photographic images can be used as designs on printed t-shirts and printed hooded tops for any gender or age.

BY JEREMY PAWLOSKI | Staff writer • Published August 17, 2011

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Thousands of stolen items sit waiting to be reunited with their owners in a warehouse on Mottman Road.

Detectives with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office and the Lacey Police Department will display the property during open houses from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the old Tyson Seafood warehouse at 3400 Mottman Road S.W.

To view the property, people must show detectives a case number or a police report from when they reported a burglary or theft, Thurston County Sheriff’s Sgt. Cheryl Stines said Tuesday.

The loot was recovered in June from a home in the 8300 block of Rich Road Southeast, along with 300 marijuana plants that were being grown in an underground tank on the property.

Lacey Police Detective Steve Brooks, who helped detectives break the case, said the home’s occupants must have gradually accumulated the massive amount of property, likely from different thieves who fenced stolen items for cash or drugs.

Stines said some of the items had been stolen from a Thurston County residence in 2006.

Most of the merchandise would be the prized purchase of any yard sale. Collectibles include old comic books, baseball cards and a baseball signed by a famous retired major leaguer in the Hall of Fame.

Other items include a John Deere riding mower, a motorized mini-bike, iPods, stereo speakers, silverware, snowboards, golf clubs, a Nintendo Wii, video games, jewelry, antique dolls, a microwave oven and a collection of flat-screen televisions.

“It’s a huge process to inventory it,” Brooks said.

Detectives were loath to put a dollar value on the property. Three people who lived at the Rich Road property likely will face a number of possession-of-stolen-property charges after items are returned to their owners.

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Maryann little has adapted to life in her uninsulated and south-facing Dunedin City Council flat, dressing in extra layers and running heaters in both the small living area and her separate bedroom.

she can cope with her electricity and gas bills by “being frugal with heating”, has got used to a small bedroom window which will not shut from the inside and warms her clothing by placing items under her duvet overnight. but it is the water dribbling down the inside of the concrete block wall in her lounge which really annoys her.

“It drives me nuts,” she said on Friday.

Mrs little (66) said she was sure the roof leaked and dismissed the view of council staff who told her the dribbles were condensation caused by running a gas heater. A neighbour, Michael Dyer, whose flat is in a separate block, also ran a gas heater and he did not have water on his walls, she said.

“I’ve spoken to three different people [at the council] and they don’t give a damn”.

both Mrs little, who has rented her Fingall St flat for six years, and mr Dyer (73), who has been a tenant for five, have asked the council to insulate the four flats in their complex.

mr Dyer said he had offered to buy underfloor insulation if the council would pay for the installation but that offer “went in their too-hard basket”. He also offered to buy a heat pump and leave it for the next tenant if the council paid for its installation, but that offer was not accepted either.

Council housing manager Sharron Tipa said last week the council had a $5 million, five-year programme to upgrade insulation in its 990 flats, accessing Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority subsidies to do so.

but she said the Fingall St flats had skillion roofs – where the ceiling is the same angle as the roofline – and there was no easy way to install insulation. there was also no space for underfloor insulation.

mr Dyer said ceiling insulation was installed at similar flats in Cuttance St when the roof was replaced recently.

Mrs Tipa said that was correct and had happened because the Cuttance St roof was asbestos and needed to be replaced. The Fingall St roofs did not.

she said she felt for Mrs little and mr Dyer.

“I wish we had the money to insulate all the flats at once, but we don’t. The flats are self-funding. if we insulate more flats than we have programmed we would have to increase rents to pay for it.”

Mrs Tipa said about 600 flats would be insulated by the end of June next year and another 280 had been programmed for the 2012-13 financial year.

The council could not allow the installation of heat pumps because of question marks over who would maintain them, and because of the difficulties of placement and noise from external compressors. A few tenants had bought portable heat pumps which required an exhaust hole to be cut into a window. The council allowed those provided the tenant met the cost of replacing the window if they vacated the flat.

Paul Booth, a tenant in Rutherford St, Caversham, said his bed-sit flat had been insulated this year. while his wardrobe and its contents were drier, he was not yet sure whether his house was warmer.

“It’s a bit hard to tell. I think my electricity bills have gone down by $15-$20 a month, but it has been so cold recently I’m not sure if that is going to last.”

mr Booth lived in a council flat in Burns St, South Dunedin, before leaving Dunedin for a time, returning and moving into Rutherford St. The Burns St flat was cold and lacking in sun.

Mullet: check. Aviator glasses: check. Tower defence with a twist: check. It’s time to protect yourself from plastic surgical strikes in TOY SOLDIERS: COLD WAR, so let’s take a look behind the Iron Curtain.

There’s something immediately appealing about Signal Games’ return to the Toy Soldiers universe, which comes as something of a remarkable contrast to its predecessor. Cold War takes all the espionage, subterfuge and deniable operations of the greatest conflict that never was, and replaces it with every ounce of ’80s action movie bravado and over-the-top action that XBLA can handle. It’s as far removed as it could be from the dull greys and browns of trench warfare and mustard gas, and drenched in so much childhood nostalgia you can almost smell the VCR chewing up that ex-rental Rambo video again.

In the absence of an actual, all-out battlefield conflict during the notoriously subterfuge- and espionage-led Cold War, just about every piece of anti-Communist entertainment has been boiled down to a series of plaster-cast models and hand-crafted environments to construct each of the hypothetical diorama. gone is the antiquity, replaced by colourful jungles, the blue chill of Russia and the bright lights of the bedroom outside your interactive war. this is the playset of a child of the 80s, complete with viewfinders, cassette tapes and empty soda cans.

As crowded as the tower defence genre gets, there’s always space for one that can mix the action up like Cold War. The basic formula remains the same: to protect your Toy Box from the invading hordes, you need to prepare for each wave of the enemy onslaught by managing, fixing and upgrading your turrets, switching and selling them to plug weaknesses and gaps in your defence. Threats come on foot, via caterpillar tracks and from the air – once by sea, too – so it’s all about funnelling the bad guys into your meat-grinder before they can chip away at your base. The more you kill and the faster you kill, the more money you earn.

The Toy Soldiers hybrid touch comes in the form of direct control. At any point you can hop into a turret and take the place of your army men. The payoff comes from your greater range and awareness, allowing you to shoot a little further and sooner than the AI would, and even guide shells and artillery directly for added effectiveness. You even get to jump into battery-powered vehicles too to support your emplacements, but if you can’t find any extra batteries your firepower won’t be around for long.

New to Cold War is the Commando, a one-man Rambo wrecking crew (or an Ivan Drago-alike for the Soviets) you can inhabit for sixty seconds. Doesn’t sound like a lot of time, but when he fires rockets with one hand lets rip with a machinegun in the other and constantly spews slightly off movie quotes all the time, it’s plenty of time to crush an incoming wave or devastate a versus opponent’s frontline. Other bonuses include the distinctly Modern Warfare Close Air Support, allowing you to rain death on Soviet troops from on high, bombing runs, artillery strikes or even call in a friendly Nuke.

Despite being a much more diverse and visually appealing game than the original, where Cold War falls down is really in its sluggish tactical controls and the one-note action. The ten-mission campaign only takes a few hours to complete and is capped by a ludicrous final boss, leaving you wondering why there isn’t a complimentary Russian campaign too. some of the turrets also feel a bit weak and useless, with Anti-Air lacking potency until its reach level 3 and the Makeshift’s microscopic range leaves it a liability later in the campaign. The camera’s rather frustrating too, making viewing distance on the larger maps a bigger pain than it should be, and highlighting the sluggish controls.

It’s far from a perfect experience, but Toy Soldiers: Cold War features plenty of replay value and additional content for those happy to while away hours mulching army men, smashing tanks and swatting choppers. Each mission comes with its own set of challenges and targets, the game constantly compares and tracks all manner of statistic and compares your performance to friends, and once you’ve completed a mission you can play it on one of five difficulty settings. The hardest, General, even removes direct control from the equation.

Versus multiplayer only has a paltry three maps, but it spices up proceedings by removing AI control from turrets. Soldiers automatically spawn from either side, but you have to buy a wave of soldiers and manually switch between turrets to deal with whatever the other player is sending your way. The real multiplayer fun is in the Survival mode, where you and a mate hold out against increasingly devastating waves, until the constant bombing runs and insurmountable odds finally wipe you away.

Even if you’re not generally much of a tower defence fan, Toy Soldiers: Cold War is a superb sequel and a perfectly priced guilty pleasure that throws cheesy action at you faster than you can say glasnost. It also comes with easily the greatest Avatar Award of all time: a mullet and a headband. That alone is worth 1200 Microsoft Points of anyone’s money.

It’s not trying to be smart or revolutionise the genre, but this is the game the original Toy Soldiers should have been: cathartic, colourful and chaotic. this is strategy and action at its finest on console, and it’s a great deal of fun.

Toy Soldiers: Cold War, from Signal Studios and Microsoft Game Studios, is out now for Xbox 360 via XBLA.

Lizzie Garrett Mettler is a 28-year-old writer from Los Angeles, California. The Guardian Fashion team became a bit obsessed with her blog, Tomboy Style, and we asked her what she finds inspiring:

Lizzie Garrett Mettler of Tomboy Style Photograph: Lizzie Garrett

LGM: I launched Tomboy Style in may 2010 after noticing I was reading my husband’s magazines and men’s style blogs much more than fashion magazines geared towards women. I found his reading material to be a bit more grounded and more inspirational than the typical women’s fashion magazines. I really wanted to look at that from a female perspective. I like clothing that is about purpose, but I’m not against having fun—I try and straddle those two elements with Tomboy Style.

Tomboy Style is made from equal parts wardrobe and spirit. often a tomboy is identified by clothing borrowed from or inspired by menswear, but what makes a tomboy is an inherent sense of confidence, rebelliousness and adventure.

The tomboy look seems to be really hot right now, so there are certainly a lot of clothes to choose from. in the couture world designers like Isabel Marant, Stella McCartney and Celine have me drooling. But, my pocketbook dictates that my threads more often come from places like J.Crew and Madewell, the local vintage T-shirt shop, oh and one of my all-time favourite places to shop: my husband’s closet!

Jane Birkin and her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg. both rocking some serious Tomboy chic. Photograph: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage

Katharine Hepburn is certainly an undisputed icon of tomboy style, but for me the ultimate tomboy woman is Jane Birkin. her hair was often tousled and her signature outfit was no simpler than jeans and a white T-shirt, but somehow she always looked chic. I mean, she could make a motorcycle helmet look sexy! Most of all I love how the most coveted Hermès bag on the planet is named after her but she couldn’t care less about its ‘status’ — in fact, her Birkin bag is typically adorned with stickers and worry beads and is all scuffed up from actual use — to me that’s tomboy style at its best.

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