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Electric Houndstooth rain cape: De-Constructed
Insights
Houndstooth, also known as dogstooth (and other variations), is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in black and white. Up close it looks like this: Houndstooth checks originated in woven wool…
Bicycling: Enter the Rain Cape
Insights, News
If you’re looking for some sharp, objective 3rd party Cleverhood rain cape review, hold on right there. Here’s a nicely detailed report for you from a noted bike obsessionist. Writing for Bicycling, the lovely and talented Constance Winters,…
News from Bike Town USA
Insights, Livable Cities
Where else but Portland, “America’s Best Bike City” according to Bicycling magazine, would there be an Eyewitness TV News report on a woman’s stolen bicycle. Unusually, for most everywhere else, the story has a happy ending: woman reunited…
Cleverhood To Demo Its Street Capes at Berliner Fahrrad Schau
Insights, Livable Cities, News
Curated German Bike Show Reflects European Bike Culture Renaissance PROVIDENCE – Cleverhood, the new Rhode Island company with the outerwear for livable cities, announced it has been selected for exhibition at Berliner Fahrrad Schau (BFS). The international BFS…
Who Do You Love?
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Here’s a good way to win yourself a brand new Cleverhood. You know Bill Cunningham, right? He’s the man with a camera and a bike who offers the closest thing you’ll ever get to x-ray glasses. I promise…
News Flash: Two New Cleverhood Styles Hit the Streets
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Rhode Island’s Cleverhood Rolls Out New Corduroy Capes Valentine’s Lovers Make Out with US Made Cape for Livable Cities PROVIDENCE (Feb. 1, 2013) – Cleverhood, the Rhode Island Company with men’s and women’s outerwear for livable cities, today…
Cleverhood’s Big Debut at the Presidential Inauguration
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“The biggest questions around the US president’s inaugural celebrations have not been about what Barack Obama would say but what his wife would wear.” — Reuters Like the other American fashion designers, we were a ball of nerves…
Why bikes?
Insights, Livable Cities
Sometimes we get too caught-up in our own particular perspective. So, please excuse us if we assume you know what we’re talking about when we talk about bikes. These days any particular interest can be hyper-focused by an…
Neighborhood Support
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In Boston there’s a thing called Mass Innovation Nights. It’s a great idea from the city of Beans. It started out in 2009 to help local innovators increase the buzz around new products and companies – and get…
