Ruche Visits NY in 13 days!!

I live in sunny Southern California where the sun shines pretty much all year round. I have trench coats, thick scarves, and fuzzy warm boots that have been dying to get worn. California rarely gets cold enough! But.... in 13 days, Josh (hubby) and I are heading to New York City for a short 4 day trip! This is our first time to NYC and I haven't been this excited over a vacation in so long.

I CANNOT WAIT to be

-in the middle of the hustle bustle city life
-under the Christmas tree at the Rockefeller center
-ice skating in the snow
-looking up at the Statue of Liberty
-sitting on a beach in the middle of Central Park
-window shopping the pretty Christmas displays
-playing Sartorialist
-eating at all the yummy restaurants
-scrounging for vintage goods at the SOHO vintage shops
-freezing my butt off
-shopping shopping shopping (don't worry, I will be shopping for you too)
-the list goes on and on...

I am currently planning my trip, looking for must see places and must eat at restaurants. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

I am also working on my outfits to bring with me. Ruche needs to go to NY in style! I'll be dressing up Josh as well haha. Hopefully I can post up pictures of my outfits each day. But somehow, I'm guessing I'll be covered up in a trench coat. Is it too cold to wear skirts with thick sweater leggings?

NY Street Style Inspirations - pictures from altamiranyc





I will definitely be taking these things with me!

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Gap - Extra 25% Off on Sale Items

Gap is having an extra 25% off all their Sale Items! Hurry up before your sizes are gone. They were running out of sizes for some cute dresses, but overall they still have a lot of stuff available. The hubby and I got four pairs of pants for less than $100! The cool thing is they have an extra sale for women's pants "Buy One Pair of Gap Adult Pants, get Get One Pair of Gap Adult Pants 50% off" + 25% off. So I ended up getting two pairs of pants for $30. =)

OR you could wait for the friends and family sale on Nov 13-16.
"30% off Gap, Banana Rep, and Old Navy (In-Store & Online) Nov 13-16
Gap is giving 30% off during our best-ever friends and family event. Gap is calling it Give & Get, because for every purchase you make, the Gap will give 5% of the amount you spend to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Includes Outlets!"

Link to coupon

Here are some cute things I found on sale with sizes left. You can definitely create some vintage inspired looks with these pieces!










I got a pair of these.

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Ruche's Lookbook is Live!

I am so happy to announce that Ruche's Fall/Winter 2008 Lookbook is finally done! After weeks of hard work, I have finally gotten it up =).

Here are a couple pages from the lookbook. Feel free to visit the boutique to view the rest of the pages.












Most the items that are worn by the models have also been added to the site so there are a bunch of new items! Click here to see all our newly added items.

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Ruche Look Book Photoshoot and New Items

I had my photo shoot last weekend and everything went very well! The models looked beautiful already but with the help of our makeup artist, hair stylist, and of course photographer, they looked ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!

First time modeling for these ladies and look and how they did! Standing ovation please! Here are a couple pictures but there are LOTS more to come. I can't want to update the look book on my site. It is your last time to view my current look book before I update it! You have to tell me what you think when I'm done. =)

Here is a preview of some proofs:



Erica wears peacock earrings $12.99 with the cream flutter sleeve shirt $29.99 (Coming soon, email us if you would like to be contacted when it arrives.


Alexandra wears the floral tapestry babydoll dress $29.99 with the gold studded pointy shoes $36.99. She also has on the emerald drops golden ring $9.99 and the NEW minty paisley heart chain necklace $12.99. Scarf coming soon!


Andrea wears the NEWchiffon beige sunday dress $39.99with the chocolate pebbles suede heels $36.99. She has on these earrings: golden delicacy chandelier earrings. $8.99


Photo Credits
Models: Erica Garlieb, Alexandra Georgiou, Andrea Miller
Photographer: Ranz Photography
Makeup and Hair: Julia Lee and Kathy Cruz

Stay tuned for more pictures!


NEW ITEMS

I've added some new items this week! Sorry for the delay. I have been super busy. There are a bunch more things coming soon, hopefully within the next two weeks!

This week: more feather barrettes, earrings, knitted tights, shoes, dresses, and tops. ENJOY!

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Ruche's Big Day

Ever since I opened Ruche, my goal was to create an online catalog/lookbook. I currently have a lookbook on my site, but I just don't think it is going to cut it. I need professional photos with real models! So this weekend, I've set up a photo shoot with an awesome photographer, three of the most adorable models, along with a makeup artist and hairstylist. I'm going all out baby! This is my first time doing this and I'm having a fun time so far, except it has been really stressful at times. I had the models drop by for a fitting. It was just so cool to see real ladies getting all "Ruched" up. Seeing them on a real person is way different. I will try to document the photo shoot and post it up next week. Wish me luck ladies!

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Ruche's Most Popular Purse in Black

Ruche just got the same popular drawstring chain tote in BLACK! Add one to your purse collection. I promise you won't be disappointed.

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Ruche's Most Popular Purse

Ever since The Clothes Horse featured our "gray drawstring chain tote", it became the most popular purse at Ruche! Nothing makes me happier than happy customers! The Clothes Horse has showed us how versatile the purse actually is! Omiru.com had also featured this same bag last week!

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