A forest through the trees . . .

The Portland label Church & State always makes me think of Elizabeth Hawes, for some reason.  I think that it’s because the clothes they design are always the good, simple American clothes that Elizabeth Hawes was always talking up in her books.  They’re pretty clothes that don’t try to be anything they’re not . . . they look perfectly at home in the forest and oceanside settings they get photographed in, and I can definitely picture them on the cute girls of magical Portland as they ride their bikes around town and visit flea markets and go to concerts and do all of the magical Portland things there are to do.  (I’m jealous!)