Delicious Gourmet Quick Bite SLICED

Gourmet quick bite restaurants are popping up all over the city, but few are anything like SLICED Gourmet, which recently opened on Bay and Elm.  This restaurant, with its rustic interior, features both packaged, ready-to-eat sandwiches as well as the standard pressed with delicious fillings such as fig and prosciutto, a delicous-sounding Nutella-based sandwich called […]

BlushPretty Event Launch Event: April 3, 2012

Toronto-based beauty studio and boutique, BlushPretty, held a launch event on April 3 to introduce new additions to their store.   These brands are EcoTools,  Alterna Bamboo, A Paper Story(stationery!), Flirt Custom Lash Studio and stella+dot.  The event featured chips and deliciously homemade salsa and hummus as well drinks.  Attendees also had the opportunity to […]

Ann Taylor and Kate Spade Join Tory Burch at Yorkdale…(UPDATED – FALSE INFO)

Whoops!  The news is not true, according to a note from a rep at Oxford Properties. The floor plan that was originally posted in this article was not supposed to be public and has since been removed.  However, the Ann Taylor/Kate Spade speculation is still on my books, especially after Kate Spade sponsored a TIFF […]

Coach Classics: Leather Shoulder Purse

Coach’s Classics line, long available online at at many other locations across North America (including Toronto’s Yorkdale store) finally made its way to the Bloor and Avenue Road location.  There was a “preview” for the line a couple of weeks ago when author and TV host/judge, Gail Simmons was in town, promoting her new book, […]

March 2012 Poll Results: Petite Sizing Ownership and You

Last month’s question asked you what percentage of your closet is made up of petite sizes.  I was NOT surprised to find out that for many of you, it occupies a good chunk of your wardrobe.  33% of you said that petite sizing occupied 80% or more of your wardrobe (I guess this means there’s […]

Old Navy Launches Sub-brand, Studio Spotlight

While many mall brands are collaborating with major designers to create capsule collections, Old Navy has decided to look within.  They will be launching their first Studio Spotlight capsule collection later this month.  Studio Spotlight features creations by the brand’s design team, with each highlighting the designer’s personality.  The first, launching later this month, is […]

Blogiversary Day: Looking Back at Five Years of Shorty Stories!

Yes, we’re five years old today!  You can find our very first post here.  Many of our earliest posts were image-free, since the site was more of a rant about petite issues blog than one that was style-related.  I wish I can get a screen capture of what the blog looked like when it first […]

Blogiversary Day: Looking Back at Five Years of Shorty Stories!

Yes, we’re five years old today!  You can find our very first post here.  Many of our earliest posts were image-free, since the site was more of a rant about petite issues blog than one that was style-related.  I wish I can get a screen capture of what the blog looked like when it first […]

Does Anyone Get the Printed Pants Trend?

They’re everywhere.  It’s in the magazine.  It’s on social media – there have been  numerous Tweets, pins, and Facebook posts about them, but what’s the deal?  Why are we, all of a sudden, wearing them?  I feel like patterned pants came almost out of nowhere.  Before this season, only a few designers were coming out […]

Blowfish Bay Street Celebrates One Year Anniversary

Media and foodies were invited to a delicious event at Blowfish Restaurant and Sake Bar‘s second location on Bay Street last night to celebrate its first anniversary.  Like the King and Bathurst restaurant which opened nine years ago, the location is a fusion of traditional and modern as well as east and west, with its […]