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Thursday
Feb112010

Fashion Friday: Collegiate Apparel Shop Opens Downtown

DateThursday, February 11, 2010 at 11:33AM | AuthorIesha Brown | Comment4 Comments

School House of Ethical Fashion, a university-licensed clothing and accessories retail shop, is officially open for business today. The shop, located at 407 N. Mangum St.,  offers t-shirts, hoodies, yoga pants, lounge wear and the likes to represent area schools including Duke, UNC, N.C. State and Wake Forest. Rachel Weeks, founder and president, acknowledges that most of the store's clothing is geared toward college-age women, but she says guys can find cool items there as well. She also hopes to include 40 additional schools by the fall. 

Durham Magazine's senior editor Lisa Rossi first introduced Rachel and School House of Ethical Fashion in a December blog post when Rachel was transitioning her Greensboro-based company to Durham. Rachel started the apparel company in 2007 when she traveled to Sri Lanka as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar on a mission to bring better collegiate apparel to her alma mater. Moreover, she pays premium prices to her suppliers to ensure that the people who work in the manufacturing facilities producing her brand are paid living wages. Rachel Weeks at School House Ethical Fashion

The store is open Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm. By the way, if you mention Durham Magazine when you go, you'll get 10 percent off your purchase.

If you have any Durham fashion-related ideas please email Lisa at lisarossi@durhammag.com. 

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Monday
Feb082010

Exciting Changes to Our Blog

DateMonday, February 8, 2010 at 9:58AM | AuthorMatt Dees | Comment1 Comment

Hey there, dear readers:

Wanted to give y'all a heads up about a new format we're bringing to the blog. In an effort to ensure we have new content every day, we're going to launch daily standing features that will appear each week.

As you may have noticed, Lisa Rossi has started putting together Music Mondays (yes, I'm a sucker for alliteration) where she highlights an artist from our local music scene.

I'm going to start profiling the good work of a local nonprofit every Tuesday. (Urban Ministries of Durham is coming tomorrow!)

Arturo will continue sharing his best finds every week in Wine Wednesdays.

Iesha Brown will continue bringing you the hottest weekend events every Thursday.

And Lisa and Iesha will team up to bring you Fashion Fridays each week. The first installment will feature the new fair trade college apparel business School House Ethical Fashion.

To be clear, this will not be the be all and end all of our blog content. We'll continue to bring you news and notes from around our city as they happen. This is mostly an effort to widen the reach of our blog and ensure we have something for our faithful readers every single day. We'll do our best to post each of these daily features first thing every morning. Hope you'll check it out.

Most importantly, we'd like to hear from you. Got a suggestion for any of these features or anything else? Please let us know. I can be reached at mattdees@durhammag.com

Thanks so much for reading.

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