All posts by Roz Pactor

About Roz Pactor

I am a fashion and marketing consultant and blogger based in Houston, Texas. With more than three decades of experience in fashion retailing that has spanned Foley’s, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale’s NYC, I have earned a reputation for delivering expertise, energy and enthusiasm to my roster of clients. I have remained closely connected with designer women’s fashion as well as the misses, teens, men’s and children’s apparel and accessories markets from coast to coast.

A Unique Shopping Experience as Tootsies Brings Other Local Artisans Together

Starting this weekend.....November 28 thru December 24. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tootsies Made Market

The Tootsies team has joined forces with many of the local artisans and designers within our community and are creating a unique shopping experience. Within the four-walls of Tootsies on Westheimer you can share, shop and explore this hand-selected collection of special giftables from many of the local brands and small retailers you know and […]

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Tootsies Pops Up……At Memorial East

Shoppers Will Find Luxury Labels for Less at the New Pop-Up Shop

Tootsies Memorial Pop-up

Tootsies is expanding its stylish reach with a pop-up shop at Memorial Green, 12505 Memorial Drive (next to Ceron Hair Studio), bringing designer apparel, shoes and accessories to the dynamic retail center. The pop-up shop provides Memorial area residents an opportunity to enjoy the Tootsies shopping experience in their own backyard. The airy 1,500 square foot […]

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The Much Anticipated Nancy & Rich Kinder Building Opens To The Public and It Is Spectacular

Not traveling.....feel the joy this holiday weekend visiting the new Kinder Building

Kinder Building

As someone who lives ‘next door’ to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and have watched almost daily with anticipation and curiosity as each area of the now complete Susan and Fayez Sarofim Campus has been completed and enhanced, I feel a true attachment to its newest addition, the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, opening […]

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Popular Caterer and Soufflé Queen Launches New Venture

Elizabeth Swift's Fab Fête frozen soufflés are the missing link to epic cheese boards

fab fete

If we have mastered anything this year, it’s how to pivot. Arguably the most widely used word of the year, businesses large and small have had to dance their way around unprecedented challenges and push all creative boundaries. 2020 has forced everyone to think outside of the box, but for events expert, Elizabeth Swift Copeland, […]

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2020….A Unique Year Calls For A Different Kind of Turkey Day For So Many

Giving Thanks this year on a smaller scale can mean a change of approach to dining......let our local restaurants lend a helping hand!

Thanksgiving 2020

If you’re like me you have had a difficult time deciding just what to do about this Thanksgving holiday that is approaching very quickly. It has always been our family’s favorite holiday and in fact, having my traditional Thanksgiving feast with many family and friends has been my very favorite gathering of the holidays and […]

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Women of Substance 2020 Celebrates the Many Outstanding Women of Houston and their Accomplishments

This popular luncheon went virtual this year and raised lots of money for the Mission of Yahweh!

Womenn of Substance

The always fabulously entertaining and glammed up 4th annual Women of Substance Luncheon, like so many charitable events this year, became a Virtual Presentation on November 6. Viewers heeded the cause to support The Mission of Yahweh, that has been sheltering homeless women and children for 59 years.  At last count, funds raised from the […]

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Rockin’ Resillience…..An Always Fun Luncheon Was Virtual This Year

Annual Luncheon benefiting The Women's Fund

Rockin Resiliency

It was not your basic Sunday morning on November 1. We knew we had a fun lunch/brunch time ahead of us and we certainly did. At noon 250 virtual guests were up and rocking the house by dancing and singing along with Houston’s very own and Season 12 finalist of American Idol, Vincent Powell, in […]

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Putting Out the Fire in 2020…..Nutritionally Speaking

Read this by our friend Catherine Kruppa of Advice for Eating.....all about inflamation that stress can cause and how to help combat it

Anti-inflammatory

2020 has been a year like no other.  Most of us have experienced some type of stress that we would describe as chronic.  We have all experienced loss whether it be loss of: jobs, important events, relationships, health, and loved ones.  Our chronic stress may be caused by uncertainly or unsettledness.  Whatever your chronic stressors […]

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Round Top…….Shopping Destination That Has Long Been on My Must See List

After a decade I finally made it back to visit, shop and dine on all things Round Top

Round Top Texas

For many reasons, mostly of late, I have been traveling in the month of October in Italy to shop (sob!) and can’t work a visit into Round Top Texas into my schedule. Not sure why April hasn’t worked but always something!! This has raised my desire to visit Round Top to a very high spot […]

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Dine-around……a long-awaited re-visit to some local restaurant favorites

A look at some of the restaurants we visited plus more to come soon......it was a week-long eatorama!

Dine-around

Like many of us that have been in our Covid survival mode for the last several months, we have spent a great amount of time supporting our local restaurants from afar. Yes, for our family, restaurant dining has largely been restricted to rare outdoor dining(still our favorite way to dine-in) but mostly curbside pick-up and […]

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