Throwback Thursday: Downs Designs and Comfortable Winter Sweaters

Welcome to another week of Throwback Thursday of highlighted posts from a year ago this week. Check out the below posts, both of which I think are quite inspiring for totally different reasons.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Karen Bowersox, like so many grandmothers, wanted to dress her granddaughter Maggie who has Down Syndrome, but typical clothes simply didn't fit her. Karen was stuck clipping, and hemming. She went online, assuming that someone had creating a line of clothing specifically to meet the needs of people with Downs Syndrome. Realizing there was a critical need she started Down Designs. Read more.
When it is this cold fashion sort of takes a backseat and we rely heavily on things that not only keep us warm but offer us comfort. Yet between our low levels of Vitamin D, the grey weather and repeating the same stalwart comfy sweater over and over again, it's easy to get cranky, to feel uninspired and blah. For today's One Item, Five Fashionable Ways I decided to do something about this and offer my tips on how to look stylish in your favorite winter sweater. After all, we're not even close to being done with this cold weather and if we don't figure out how to be warm and stylish soon, and get 5000 IU of D3 in us STAT, we're all goners. Read on.