Recent Publication in Delaware Today Fashion Sense
Local People, Local Style
What’s hot in fall fashion? Take a peek here, and meet a few people who make the beautiful clothing so much more attractive.
Cacia Batts | Wilmington
Cacia Batts never really intended to be a pageant girl. But once the reigning Mrs. Delaware America got her first taste of it, “I learned that there are brains that come along with the beauty,” she says. “It wasn’t these 6-foot blondes who eat bonbons and buy clothes all day. These are hardworking, career-driven women with children.” Today Batts, 28, is driving toward a career in human services. She works with AIDS Delaware and Epilepsy Foundation of Delaware, and she judges Delaware Teen Idol.
Assar New York silk chiffon evening gown, $1,390 at Honey Kamali, Greenville. Hair by Christopher Darring, makeup by Tina Scalici/Face 2 Face, all of Elayne James Salon Companies.
Photograph by Luigi Ciuffetelli
Jackie Renaldo Young | Wilmington
A guru of all things stylish among her friends, Jackie Renaldo Young finds herself in the perfect job: managing a boutique. At White House Black Market in Greenville, Renaldo Young, 32, gets paid to dispense the fashion advice she usually gives for free. “I love fashion,” she says, “from top to bottom, hair to makeup.” The former high school teacher moved to Wilmington from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, when she married an AstraZeneca employee. “I’m still getting used to the idea of being a Delawarean and everyone knowing everyone else.”
Theory T-shirt, $75, Vince boyfriend blazer, $440, and J Brand Doll jeans, $194; Loeffler Randall Esther pump, $395, and grey ostrich clutch, $225; Alexis Bittar necklace, $135, lucite earrings, $202, and bracelet, $335, all at Peter Kate, Greenville. Hair by Keleigh Zajaczkowski and Christopher Darring, makeup by Tina Scalici/Face 2 Face, all of Elayne James Salon Companies.
Photograph by Luigi Ciuffetelli
