Karin writes the Washington Women and The Scene columns for Bisnow on Business and is a contributing writer for Capitol File magazine. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, The Sunday Independent and the Gulf News.

A Vassar College grad, where she was able to fuel her Jackie Kennedy obsession, she never wore flats to class. Not once, not even in the snow. She takes the same mentality to the streets of DC where she is waiting with bated breath for the fashion revitalization of the capital city.

Blog Entries by Karin Tanabe

It's Not Just Palin in Designer Duds

13 Comments | Posted October 31, 2008 | 04:26 PM (EST)


"I would have to wear sable underwear," fashion plate Jackie Kennedy pooh-poohed when the good 'ol liberal media accused her of spending $30,000 on clothes a year, most of them made by those nimble fingered frogs across the pond.

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After Palin's wardrobegate '08,...

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Palin and McCain: Dressing for Joe Six-Pack

109 Comments | Posted October 11, 2008 | 02:31 PM (EST)


We all put our pants on one leg at a time. But when you're running for public office, there's a whole lot of thinking about which pair of pants you're putting on.

David Brooks' recent New York Times Op-Ed column, The Class War Before Palin, hit home what...

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Cindy McCain Wears Clown Suit/Pantsuit To Debate

44 Comments | Posted September 27, 2008 | 01:17 PM (EST)


Has Cindy McCain been playing in Hillary's pantsuit depot again? For the first of her husband's debates against Barack Obama, Cindy "the human tomato" McCain decided to outfit herself in a pantsuit that looked more like a four-year-old's romper than the attire of a professional woman.

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What If: A Fashion Nightmare With VP Sarah Palin

Posted September 19, 2008 | 10:25 PM (EST)


"Fashion in Alaska means your fur hat is dead." Yet somehow Bouffant Barbie has convinced America that she's a fashion sensation and will pile her dogsled with suitcases full of femininity as she skids into the land of the badly buttoned, Capitol Hill.

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Is Pole Dancing Fashion Week-Worthy or a Depraved Activity?

Posted September 7, 2008 | 07:09 PM (EST)


Despite the buckets of Botox in the faces of the fashion week rabble, you can always count on rows of very raised eyebrows as designers try to out wow each other in this era of blasé bystanders. There was Fendi's Great Wall of China show, Marc Jacobs showing his '07...

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'Glamish': Why Does Fall Fashion Have Us Buttoned Up Like The Pennsylvania Dutch?

Posted August 31, 2008 | 08:39 AM (EST)


The economy is in dire straits. The mortgage crisis is a crisis. We're a nation at war. You would think we might hope to cheer each other up by wearing clothes that screamed, "my subprime mortgage has me putting needles in my eyes but my colorful outfits and angular necklines...

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What Not To Wear To The Democratic Convention

Posted August 22, 2008 | 07:33 AM (EST)


It's about that time again. Political fashion week is kicking off in Colorado on Monday with the Democratic Party's super models strutting in their red, white and blue. The theme I'm expecting from this year's event is "quiet patriotism." My fingers are crossed that no one decides to show a...

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How Modern Technology Ruined My Favorite Spectator Sport

Posted August 11, 2008 | 03:42 PM (EST)


It's called the Speedo LZR Racer. Credited with dozens of world records, it's not sewn but welded together, was engineered by NASA, produces 38% less hydrodynamic drag than a normal bathing suit, covers from ankle to neck and has all but ruined my favorite spectator sport since I could say...

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The Great Pantsuit Problem (And What To Do About It)

Posted August 4, 2008 | 06:00 AM (EST)


In the August issue of Harper's Bazaar, the magazine asks:

Harper's Bazaar: How many pantsuits do you have?

Nancy Pelosi: I don't have any idea. Endless.

It didn't bother me at first. Just a typical question to ask a Washington woman. And then it began to haunt me,...

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