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Fresh Prints
Navigate summer style with watercolor florals, beyond-bright stripes and arty, abstract patterns
All photos by Marge Ely and styled by Betsy Lowther
ABOVE: Rhiannon wears Reiss’ striped dress ($315, Reiss, 1254 Wisconsin Ave. NW; 202-944-8565) with D.C.-based jewelry designer Sissy Yates’ “Selene” necklace ($525, sissyyates.com). Shot on location at National Harbor, the Potomac River waterfront complex of shops, restaurants and hotels that opened in Prince George’s County in 2008. The site’s marina — a 20-minute water taxi ride from Old Town Alexandria — offers canoe, sailboat and electric boat rentals, as well as fishing tours and river cruises.
WARM WEATHER, which took its time arriving this spring, usually inspires one of two actions in Washingtonians. The first is an over-whelming desire, in this zone of riotious daffodils and emerald green trees, to stop and smell (or plant) the flowers. The other, though somewhat at odds with the first, is to pack your valise and head out of town to some exotic clime — never mind that the local parks and waterfronts (like the one at National Harbor, where we shot this story) beckon so invitingly.
