Jul 17, 2012 - Deals, Shopping

Catalogue Contest Part 2: It’s Your Turn

Surely many of you are familiar with Beso? It’s a shopping site run by my close pal and former coworker (and frequent Girls of a Certain Age commenter) Elise Loehnen, a person who—when it comes to finding treasures in unexpected places—makes me look like a piker. One of Elise’s proudest moments was when I agreed to let her run a bit in the magazine about some amazing bags she’d found on a site that sells old west reenactment supplies.

You can buy stuff from about a squillion retailers through Beso—everything from your Net-a-Porters and Shopbops to your hipster indie retailers like Acrimony and Totokaelo. But Beso is also home to many of our favorite Catalogue Challenge brands, and others like them. What we want you to do is create a collection composed entirely of pieces from those retailers. Here’s a sample collection Elise came up with, just to give you a better idea of what we’re talking about.

Your collection must have a minimum of 10 items, but really, the more the merrier—as long as it’s all stuff you can really stand behind. Click here to get started creating yours. The winner gets a $250 Beso gift card.

You have until noon on Monday to send in submissions. Have at it.

Kim France

I was born in Houston, Texas in 1964 and have lived in New York City since 1988. I had a long career in magazines, working at Sassy, Elle, New York, and Spin, and in 2000, I founded Lucky magazine, which I edited for ten years.

Sorry if that was unclear: use the retailers on Beso that were in the Catalogue Challenge (Elise has linked to a bunch of them in her sample; a few of them aren’t on Beso so you can’t use them) to create a “collection” of great stuff. Also: find other hidden treasure from unexpected retailers (like, say, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalogue, where Elise is always finding cool jewelry).
To prove that you guys, too, can find the hidden treasure anywhere.

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Heather

17 Jul 2012

1:57pm

Me too. I don’t understand or is it just that my taste has fallen off the map because I would wear some of those Talbot’s shoes? And I swear that if you wore that camo hoodie here in France, folks would think it was Dries.
Clarification please. 🙂

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Elise

17 Jul 2012

7:43pm

I would go to the mat for everything in my collection—i.e., there’s tons at Cabela’s, and Lands End’, and Talbots, et al that I would totally buy and wear.

I’m just reiterating Kim’s point that you can truly shop anywhere…

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CTanner

17 Jul 2012

7:31pm

Fun challenge, and I just had a tolerable collection going, and as no Miles Kimball clothes were showing up on Beso, tried to pull an image over from the Miles Kimball website (Kimball Klearance!) and lost all that I did (Mercury Retrograde, shakes fist at sky). Now I see you can’t do that. (Dimwitted internet neophyte). But I’m not seeing lots of things showing up from Discount Dance or any clothes from Miles Kimball show up on the Beso site –is a corn-butterer or a cantaloupe chopper (worn as a hat) acceptable entry from Miles Kimball?

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CTanner

17 Jul 2012

7:37pm

(that was rhetorical). To clarify, if no clothes are showing up, we can drop it from inclusion I assume

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Elise

17 Jul 2012

7:45pm

Yeah, you can only include things on our site, alas. Sometimes, merchants just give us a handful of products, rather than everything they sell.
:/
(You’ll see QVC isn’t all that robust).

Email me if you can’t recover your collection—we should be able to pull it out on the backend. elise {at} beso . com

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