There's also a new facet to tomboy chic: men's staples adapted for women – like New York sportswear label Filles et Papa and men's shirts by brands like E Tautz, Thomas Pink and Mr Start.
That's the refined aesthetic of cool European magazines, like Fantastic Man in Amsterdam and Purple Fashion in Paris, with elegant serif typefaces (the old-fashioned sort with squiggles at the ends of the letters) floating gracefully in lots of white space, like a graphic take on Apple's iPod or Prada's chic men's cardigans.
Its first issues had a print run of 1,000, distributed by hand to stores like St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village and the Freemans Sporting Club on Bleecker Street, a hunter-chic men's boutique, where it's sold alongside $330 vintage-style umbrellas.
But perhaps the only thing more played out than another lumberjack-chic man with a candy-colored ax was this word, trotted out to label the retro-trend.
Visitors can see some of city's finest brownstones, off-the-path cul-se-sacs, an eclectic mix of restaurants and a chic sense of fashion (a man in this Times video touts the "hoodster" look).
But as the taxi pulled up, a smooth young man in a chic black suit suddenly materialized from inside the automatic glass doors to whisk my suitcase away and usher me inside.
You do that every day?" He took the men to a chic neighborhood in Port Jefferson.
From there Marci parachutes into a chic party hosted by the obligatory men in Chelsea.
Highlights for autumn include a £15 windbreaker in an on-trend rust shade and a chic navy waffle-knit jumpers for men, and a 60s-style cocoon coat at £50 or £55 leather riding boots for women.
Those effects, which include both props (a conveyor-belt-equipped table, an obstacle course of porcelain vases) and physical feats (inventive gymnastics, pointe work), surprise and thrill, and her company of short-haired women and buff men sometimes resembles a chic Pilobolus.
