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Sneak Peek

Last week I passed by Bryant Park and felt as if I had stumbled upon a chalk outline of a "Law & Order" crime scene. The lawn that just seven days ago had housed the New York Fashion Week tents and all their high drama appeared listless and deflated. Gone was that week-long pinch-me feeling. Imagine playing in a pro-am with Tiger Woods. You're nervous, hopeful, excited, trying to hold onto every minute so that you can process it and try to make some sense of it. And then it's over. Maybe I'm being a little dramatic. But drama is what fashion is all about.

It's difficult to forecast the trends that will have the most resonance without taking in the shows in London, Paris and Milan. New York offers a taste of what you'll find come Spring time. We can say good-bye to the voluminous and not particularly flattering silhouettes of the last two seasons. Spring 2008 offers a more tapered, more flattering, adult silhouette. Hats are huge (nice to see the fashion world catch up to that fun golf staple: head-wear). I loved the visors at Michael Kors and the fedoras and head-scarves at Diane von Furstenberg. Style.com is perfect for checking out each designers complete collection. Be sure to check out the The Sartorialist on the style.com to see what people were wearing outside the tents.

Many of the shows offered American sportswear that can easily be worn on the course. But it's hard to call out any one item with as much enthusiasm as I experienced when Linda Hipp of Lija came to see me back in August. She was in town and stopped in to give me a preview of the Spring 2008 Lija collection. Linda always has a tightly edited, very fashion forward collection. I'm sure you'll see many of the items from the collection featured on the pages of Golf for Women. Since it's always fun to get a sneak peek, check out the pictures of the Willow windshirt (left). It's lightweight, wind and water resistant and comes in lilac. You won't be able to buy it until Spring 2008, but I've already started to think about what i can wear the Willow with next April.