"So I started a blog to answer my own question about what makes a tomboy stylish." "Something clicked in my head," Mettler says. Crew, where you can find a "schoolboy blazer" on the streets, where the Breton sailor stripe shirt trend 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 oversized button-down shirt looks by Phoebe Philo at Celine. Indeed, in recent years, men's wear-inspired fashion for women has gone mainstream. Maybe, Mettler thought, there was something to her lifelong fascination with Belgian loafers, tattered Lacoste polos and Barbour jackets. That changed when she started reading street fashion blogs like the Sartorialist and A Cup of Jo, and saw comments from readers who couldn't get enough of Alexa Chung and Lou Doillon's "tomboy style." "It was a nightmare for my parents to get me into a dress for a stretch of years."Īs she became a teenager and young adult, she pushed that side of herself away. "I was a definite tomboy when I was a kid," she says. For years, L.A.-based author Lizzie Garrett Mettler thought "tomboy" was a dirty word.
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