Showing posts with label fashionistas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashionistas. Show all posts

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Brilliant Store Just for the Fairway Female!

If you're looking for some one-stop golf shopping, free of frustration, you have to visit this store!

Catherine Cole of Long Island put a good hunch to work when she started Forward Tee Golf last month. Fed up with the lack of quality service and supply while shopping for golf equipment she decided to open her own store. One mildly entertaining example (only because it's so blatantly sad & we can all relate) was when she was looking for a new putter ...

"So I'm in this store and I'm trying out a putter on the putting green and a guy that works there comes up to me and says, 'Can I help you?' "

Cole said she was in the market for a new putter and thought she would receive some expertise in picking out one that fit just right.

Instead, this:

"He picks a putter off the rack, hands it to me, and says, 'You'll like this one, it's pink,'"

It is tragic how the only way to find a worthwhile selection is online. How on earth are you supposed to locate the appropriate items online?? Whether shoes or a new 460 driver ... you just have to test everything out before identifying what works for you.

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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Ladies' Golf Fashions Draw Big Attention

Today the Associated Press published an article highlighting the rapidly evolving apparel for women on the golf course. Most of the brands have been previously featured here at The Fairway Flapper except for one: LIJA.

This brand is amazingly street-wearable, with lines like City Luxe and Nouveau Riche. There is also an overwhelming amount of merchandise offered! Fun color themes include Sweet Like Sangria, Green with Envy, and Dawn to Dusk. You're bound to have one huge "shopping cart" after taking a look at lijastyle.com.


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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Stylin' On Course

Apparently fairway fashions are continuing to become runway-savvy as Swedish clothier J. Lindeberg Women's Wear has launched a golf line! Canada's Globe & Mail published a very fun article reminiscing upon the evolution of women as an influential part of the golfing industry. The posh attire offered has the classic golfwear design with a soft feminine twist. Check it out at the women's section of their online store.


Very cute indeed! The brand also has a men's line and is working on putting out a golf shoe with Puma.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Fighting Breast Cancer on Mother's Day

I've noticed three things appearing together recently: a cure for breast cancer, golf and mother's day.
Here in Philly the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is being held this Sunday, May 13th (also in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis).

A lot of golf is being played in order to raise money and awareness too,

Rally for the Cure - presented by Golf for Women magazine


Birdies for Breast Cancer - started by pro golfer Christine Kerr.

On May 14th the Birdies for Breast Cancer Golf Tournament in Concord, NC will be held.

The EWGA - Worcester Chapter in MA is hosting the Breast Cancer Golf Challenge on June 18th.

The Royal Canadian Golf Fore the Cure, played on September 17th.


Champ Spikes is hosting Pink-on-the-Links on Mother's Day - calling all golfers playing in PGA or LPGA events this Sunday to wear Champ pink spikes and a donation will be made to the Breast Cancer Research Fund in his/her name.
There are a ton of golf items sold to raise money for breast cancer research.
Things include:
Wilson 'Hope' golf line (Wilson is the official athletic gear sponsor of the BCRF)

Glove It & designer Nicole Miller golf accessories

Also check out Pink-Ribbon-Store.com



Golf for Women has been very vocal on the issue of breast cancer.
In 2004 GFW featured an article "Survival 101: How Golf Can Bring You Back."
They've also covered Birdies for Breast Cancer. GFW hosts Rally for the Cure and partners with Yopliat (which does the yogurt-lids fund raising).



... I could go on forever there's so much out there!!!

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

For the Very Vogue Golfer

I continue to stumble upon more uber-luxe golf gear! Here are a few select items,


Chanel Golf Bag ($2,965)
*clubs ($795)

Louis Vuitton Golf Glove ($300)


Dior Golf Bag ($1,679)

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Saturday, May 5, 2007

Cute "Gift Buckets"

The smart-boutique GirlsGreen.com offers many cute products but the standout item has to be their gift buckets. The Beginner, Bogey and Scratch Golfer Buckets range from $36 - $80 and include the standard golf-gift items: a polo, balls and tees. The green driving range buckets that hold the gifts are what really make them eye-catching.

Be sure to check out the other cute stuff at GirlsGreen, which was started by two sisters in New Jersey, in 2003.

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A Simple Skort

I headed out to pick up a staple item for the golf course, a khaki skort. Sounds simple enough, so I headed into Golfdom and snatched an Adidas one. When I got home and tried it on I was pretty disappointed! It resembled an unflattering potato-sack! How could they mess up a khaki, stretch skort??

Needless to say I brought the $60 purchase back and exchanged it for a nearly identical looking Nike one, but somehow the Nike cut and fit is perfect!

So take a pass on the Adidas stretch skort and pick up the Nike UV Dri-FIT skort.


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Friday, May 4, 2007

Lela Designs for the Glamorous Golferette

Canadian based Lela Designs makes some amazingly sophisticated golf-wear for ladies. The brand was started by three savvy females, Tina Hofer, Perry Sharma and Margarita Angelatos, with the mission of making "functional, fresh and fashionable apparel."The trio have managed to cover just about every base in making their product GREAT! They are environmentally friendly and the clothes are even made from organic materials. A portion of the profits go to The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), which works to fight AIDs in rural Africa by educating women.

Lela Designs made it onto the runway this spring at Fashion Week in British Columbia.



Very cute! I'm loving the "sugar-daddy" vibe to their photo shoots, how very country-club-scandalous!



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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The Fashionable Birdie

Due to my crazy corporate schedule this month I've been severely slacking as The Fairway Flapper. Luckily, my good friend was nice enough to alert me on FabSugar's Designer Spotlight: Birdie (be sure to check out any of the "sugar" blogs - they are top notch). Young golferette Kate Sutton was fed-up with golf wear closely resembling a potato-sack, so last year she launched her own line. In just one year Kate's clothes have soared into the lime-light, having been featured in numerous magazines, of course including Golf for Women.




Birdie's brilliantly cute logo ... .







Check it out - even the website is utterly adorable!!!

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Fairway Fixations

On a personal note ...

Inconveniently, the corporate world has been keeping my focus occupied lately. I have however managed to squeeze in some golf gear shopping.

Due to my "green" golfer status, it was high time for a fairway makeover. Interestingly enough my automatic "must" items are The Bag and The Shoes ... how predictable.

The Bag:

Ridiculous vs. Respectable
I was instantly drawn to the lure of the chic black Burberry bag ($335). My irrational "Veruca Salt shopper" instinct kicked in, with justifications such as "it's not that much more than you were planning to spend ..." (only 3x's more) ... "you'll never need to buy another bag again!"

Then there was the very smart looking Callaway, with a practical price tag ($139).

Standing there in the store I had a golferette epiphany: How ridiculous would a Burberry golf bag look, being toted around the course by a freshman-female golfer?? Not that I care what the boys think or anything, but who's going to take a girl on the golf course seriously if she's toting around designer duds with no talent?

Needless to say, I am the (reasonably) proud owner of the basic yet smart Callaway cart bag.




The Shoes
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Ecco Enchantment
Again, being the clueless golf shopper, I did some minor investigating to figure out the optimum shoe to attain. So far the obvious answer has been an Ecco, and if "you get what you pay for" I suppose that makes sense. Ecco's give a girl comfort, support, quality, and style. Its website demonstrates the technology behind the shoes.

The website Ladies Golf Journal highlighted Ecco's in two articles. One posted back in 2006 and a more recent piece, which explains,
"Leading the sleek and chic fashion is Ecco. "ECCO loves women. And women seem to love them right back," reports Golf World Business. It is one of the most popular on private courses and on the LPGA Tour."

Ecco is partnered with the Ladies European Tour and became the Official Parter to the 2007 European Challenge Tour. Pro-golferettes sporting the Ecco include Carin Koch, Anna Rawson, Meena Lee and Juli Inkster.

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Saturday, April 7, 2007

Like a Kid in a Candy Store

So in my amateur quest to officially join in the vocation of golf, I headed into my local Golfdom store. Wow! It's amazing in that place! Normally, a decent selection of quality women's golf goods is somewhat hard to come by, but Golfdom has some seriously cute things, from clothing to golf bags.

Oddly there are only two locations, each in an area I frequent - being from Northern Virginia and now residing in Philadelphia. Sorry to everyone not passing through either place. Tragically their online shopping isn't quite up to par and does no justice to the great stuff available on site.

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Friday, April 6, 2007

Birdies in Burberry

Apparently the world of fashion is smart enough to extend its designer-labeled hand and bring the competitive display of materialism onto the golf course.

Burberry has an entire women's golf section on its website! The clothing selection isn't very extensive but there are some great accessories.

Here are some choice picks:



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