Fashion Archives | Cool Mom Picks

4 cool mask accessories to make wearing a face mask a little more comfortable

by Caroline Siegrist | Fashion, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing

If your ears ache like crazy right now, you’re doing something right, mask-wise. But good news! With these accessories, you can make wearing a face mask a whole lot more comfortable, and for glasses wearers, a whole lot less foggy. Plus, if your state is like...

5 stylish, comfy robes because do we really need to get dressed?

by Kristen Chase | Fashion

I was never really a robe person until this whole Coronavirus quarantine went down, and now I barely take it off. I wear mine the second I wake up, and then when 5pm hits, it’s back on again. Full disclosure: There may have been days these last two weeks where I...

5 of our favorite sweatpants and leggings. Because right now, we’re not wearing anything else.

by Kristen Chase | Fashion

Props to you if you’re stuck at home like us these days and are putting on more than leggings or sweatpants. If you’ve been catching our #StyleOver40 on Instagram, then you know that for us, that is not the case. We are currently living in our favorite...

Pregnant? How to score high-end maternity clothes at huge discounts right now. | Sponsored Message

by Cool Mom Staff | Fashion

We all know how expensive maternity clothes can be, but we also know how great-fitting, smart, stylish clothes make us feel so much better when we’re pregnant or postpartum. Well here’s one way to score lots of fashionable, high-end maternity clothes that...

Nike nurses’ shoes honor everyday heroes working in medicine and healthcare.

by Kate Etue | Doing Good, Fashion

Sometimes the best way to appreciate the work someone does is simply to recognize it. Which is why all of us were so thrilled to come across the new Nike Zoom Pulse. People are calling them “Nike nurses’ shoes,” because it’s their first shoe...

Tons of beloved Hammitt handbags go on sale, big time. Why wait until Black Friday?

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion

When our own Lisa told me about a massive sale on “my favorite handbags” from Hammitt Los Angeles, I clicked over immediately. Lisa has great taste, first off. And, well, I love bags. If you’re in the market, don’t wait until Black Friday!...

Long belted shirtdresses: 5 favorites you’ll want to live in this fall and winter.

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion

This past week, I made a rare impulse clothing purchase: a gorgeous, long belted shirt dress from Uli Herzner that I spotted at a Chelsea Market pop-up. I’ve admired her work ever since she made it to the S3 fashion show on Project Runway, and I’m so...

These hand-knit animal scarves require no food, no water, but lots of love.

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion, Kid Fashion

While a real pet requires food, water, and responsibility, the phenomenal hand-knitted animals scarves from Dutch Etsy artist Nina Fuehrer require…well, just enough responsibility that they come home with your kids at the end of the day. At a recent Etsy holiday...

These new PLAE x Jasper Wong glow-in-the-dark sneakers are lit (ha)

by Kate Etue | Fashion, Kid Fashion

Fall nights means it gets dark before our kids are done playing, but I may have found the most fashionable possible way to keep them going—and glowing—all night long. PLAE is already one of our favorite shoe brands for kids and adults. My husband wears his every...

Fur-trimmed booties for fall and winter: 5 of my favorite ways to get your tootsies up to trend

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion

Fur trimmed booties are so hot right now (faux fur too, whatever works for you) and I’m so in love. It’s the kind of look that comes back every few years are so, so you may already have something fab in the back of your closet Or if you’re getting...

My newest jewelry obsession: Amber Poitier

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion

Browsing the Atlantic Antic yesterday, the beloved annual Brooklyn street fair, I stumbled across some amazing leather jewelry and accessories amidst the beer gardens and belly dancers and homemade spanakopitas. I was drawn. in by Amber Poitier’s sculptural 3-D...

Hot trend alert: 9 platform sneakers we love for fall!

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion

While some trends we leave all to the kids, platform sneakers is one that I love and okay, so do my girls. It’s a way to get a little style into your comfortable footwear (or vice versa) and, if you’re not Kristen (ha), to get a little more height! If...

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Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Picks in 2006 to help make life cooler, more meaningful, and more fun for parents of all kinds.

Trivia: It was called Cool Mom Sh*t for the first two days. (Yeah, we rethought that.)

We had no idea our site would grow to become a major lifestyle network, that we'd end up sharing our finds with the TODAY Show and Martha Stewart, that we'd be able to make a real difference for so many small businesses and women-run companies, or that we'd end up with an incredible community of the coolest readers on the planet. (If we do say so ourselves).