Tomboy book takes page from history

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“I was a definite tomboy when I was a kid,” she says. “It was a nightmare for my parents to get me into a dress for a stretch of years.”

As she became a teenager and young adult, she abandoned that side of herself.Then she started reading street-fashion blogs such as A Cup of Jo and the Sartorialist, and saw comments from readers who couldn’t get enough of the “tomboy style” of TV host Alexa Chung and model Lou Doillon.

Maybe, Mettler thought, her lifelong fascination with Belgian loafers, tattered Lacoste polos and Barbour jackets didn’t have to be ignored.

Indeed, in recent years, fashions for women that are inspired by menswear have gone mainstream.It’s seen at J. Crew, where you can find a “schoolboy blazer”; on the streets, where the Breton sailor stripe shirt won’t go away; and on the runways, in Scott Sternberg’s neo-preppy Boy by Band of Outsiders collection and in the 1970s-inspired trouser and oversize button-down shirts by Phoebe Philo at Celine.

Source: Columbus Dispatch