Seen & Heard at Greenpoint Food Market

I spent what seemed like a billion hours hawking nut pate and iced coffee at the Greenpoint Food Market last Saturday. Which was a wonderful way to meet even more lovely people doing groovy food things in these parts; sample a billion cupcakes (and a macaroon, but more on this later); and generally taste, see [...]

No longer surprising, but …

… overalls in In Style magazine: June 2010 issue; page 164 In Urban Outfitters: Georgetown, DC store In H&M: Georgetown, DC store

Overalls: The Italian Beauty.

Name:  Dana Bruno Location:  Astoria, Queens. NY. Works at a Swiss perfumery, married to a rockstar, and evokes la dolce vita. Swoon.

Upstate Escape

Brooklyn Home Companion took a short vacation to New Paltz this weekend.  It is a place we visit every summer to revisit camping under stars, practice our rock climbing, swim in glorious waterfalls, and quietly weave daisy chains. Depending on where you are here—the earth smells like fresh vegetables, neighboring clouds, brewing yerba mate, the [...]

We’ve got Overalls. And the World Under Our Feet.

Meet our newest friend and world traveler. K Peter Dahlström.  Sintra, Portugal. 1998.

“Noticed – Overalls Find Their Way Into Urban Fashion”

We’ve been noticed, darlings! Perhaps recession solidarity is behind overalls percolating on the street and trickling down from the runway. Long associated with farmers, Rosie the Riveter and OshKosh B’gosh babies, the uniform is having a moment: the blog Brooklyn Home Companion has declared that “2010 is the Year of the Overall.” The blog, chronicler [...]

Overalls Everywhere

In The Gap: (want – though I’d wear it all summer with a bikini top, not a crew-neck tee) In Forever 21: On this guy who is some kind of artist and throws parties I want to go to: He is also the host of the Doo Nanny, the annual alt/folk art “micro” festival, as [...]

Celebrity Overalls

Katie Holmes sporting some fancy bibs:

Overalls Potluck @ Cafe Royal Tonight

So Niels Windfeld Lund, aka The Bib Professor, is visiting New York for a conference and asked your Brooklyn Home Companion bloggers here if we would support him organizing an overalls party in Greenpoint while he’s in town. Of course! This is the kind of just-random-enough-to-be-fun endeavor we fully support. So, if you happen to [...]

Overalls on the L Train

[Secretly snapped by Gina Telaroli]