Christina Finn Style

09/09/2026

So much has changed since my last post! Look forward to more frequent posts from this point on, because I am all moved into my new house in Berwyn, cats and all. I am shopping for fantastic new clothes on a regular basis: designer, vintage, luxury and artisanal goods for women and men, in pristine previously owned to mint condition. All fashion pictures in this post are RECENT as of this week and all clothing items shown are available, apart from the models’ personal shoes.

Style Society Club is open for fashion, skin care, jewelry, candle and accessories business Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 to 4:00 at 137 North Oak Park Avenue, suite 125. I might not personally be there for all of those hours, but our lovely stylist Peggy is, and I am available by appointment so long as Scoville Square is open. If you’re looking for clothing alterations, repair, or even custom tailoring, our amazing new colleague Lydia is the person to see.

I’m working on a home showroom at my house in Berwyn, but I need to get the rest of my house organized first! In the meantime, I am more than happy to take my show on the road. If you’re in the Chicago area and you want a personalized shopping experience with inventory selected specifically for you (or you and your friends!) email [email protected] to book an appointment or trunk show.

Second hand is the way to go for sustainable, affordable luxury. If you think your small Chicago area business would benefit from a curated collection tailored to your customer base, contact us to set something up. You can “try us on” with a trunk show, and then work out a long term arrangement if the event is a hit.

I don’t just style wardrobes, I also style interiors. I’m including a few pictures of my actual house as examples. The combination of vintage and modern pieces is as much a fixture in my decor as it is in my fashion sense, both in my store inventory and my personal wardrobe.

Website and eBay store are coming soon!

Huge thanks to Roman Flores, Peggy Johnson, Lydia Thompson and Katherine Lieu, the real deal dream team! Thanks also to our neighbors at Gem Home for letting me take pictures in front of their shop, and especially to my gorgeous models, Melanie and Traci.

COME SEE US! It’ll be fun, and you’ll look incredible.

06/28/2026

It’s been a long day of swimming, walking around Carytown in Richmond, and shopping hard for Style Society Club. I am probably not going to source any more inventory until I’m back in Chicago and that’s not for another week, but I have some great stuff and some updates.

Coming soon to Style Society Club: ME! Not right away, since I won’t be in the neighborhood full time until after the 8th of next month, and I’m going to have to go back to Richmond one more time to wrap up the last of the move. But I’m buying a house in Berwyn, and once my husband and I and our kitties are settled in, I’m going to be at the boutique two days a week. In the meantime, it’s open every Friday and Saturday with our lovely stylist Peggy at the helm. You can also contact the store for an appointment. Moses is still the host with the most and the man with the plan behind the scenes, and he will certainly have more fabulous events up his sleeve for the summer.

Also coming soon to Style Society Club, our men’s collection preview. For the moment, we are focusing on shirts and jackets for the guys, but we will be adding more items as it gets closer to autumn. Ted Baker, Hugo Boss, Gant, Robert Talbott, Theory and Cole Haan are just a few of the brands coming to the shop in the next couple of weeks, with more to follow.

For the women’s collection, new arrivals from Tory Burch, Rungolee, Lauren Vidal, Vince, Bryn Walker, J McLaughlin, Eileen Fisher, Lafayette 148, CP Shades, Comfy USA, Theory, Alice & Olivia, Milly, RED Valentino, Rebecca Taylor, Parker, CCH Collection, Tuckernuck and Elie Tahari just landed. I just packed two bags with pieces from Oliphant, Persifor, Stella Carakasi, Jonathan Simkhai, Roberta Roller Rabbit, Nanette Lepore, Marni, Ulf Andersson, Trina Turk and more. I’m also already building the autumn collection, which will be fantastic. But for all you summer lovers, I’ve got you covered. Literally.

I will still be working with multiple Virginia locations as a consignor: Mattie’s in Richmond, Agents in Style in Charlottesville, and Encore and Mint Condition in Alexandria.

A week from now, I’ll be in Chicago and my cats will be very mad at me for making them spend the day in a car. But for now, good night from Richmond!

06/17/2026

Saoirse the cat wants you to know that we’re closer than ever to our return to Oak Park! Keep your fingers (and toes…and kitty paws) crossed for us, because today is our Virginia house’s inspection. Saoirse and all of her friends are going to be in the car with me and my husband, parked in our gym’s parking lot enjoying the air conditioning! Once we cross this bridge, we can get home and start looking at houses in Forest Park and Berwyn. (All of those lovely 800K and up houses currently on offer in OP are lovely, but apparently the

05/31/2026

Another two weeks have passed and somehow, I still own this house in Richmond. Sasha the cat can’t believe it, and neither can I. Even our realtor is surprised. But we have two showings tomorrow, so keep us in your thoughts. We’re all ready to come home. Every day, I manage my frustration by imagining what my life will be like when we’re finally back in Chicago.

As it’s Sunday and there’s a time difference between Chicago and Richmond, I would be in Oak Park right now, a little more than 20 minutes into 10:30 Mass at St. Giles. Unless I went to the 8:00 one in order to see my friend Jessica, which is always a possibility. But it’s more likely that I would go to church at 10:30 since it’s looking more and more likely that we’ll be living in Berwyn or Elmwood Park, and that means a longer drive to St. Giles than when we lived in OP.

After church, I’d have breakfast (brunch?) with my husband and then it’d be time to get to work. I would start with the places closest to home and then branch out as needed, either to the Goodwill stores in Westchester and Darien or the “North Avenue loop” including Elmhurst, Glendale Heights and Carol Stream. We could stop for a nibble at the grocery store in Darien and grab a few things to bring home, or maybe try that steakhouse on North that we’ve been curious about for 20 years and then pop over to Costco.

After we got home and put away any perishable items, and put the inventory somewhere safe from curious cats, we could go to the gym for a swim. This would involve a drive to Oak Park, slightly more complicated than the 2-minute walk we have in Richmond, but there’s a parking garage right next to our gym and we’d also be near Trader Joe’s if we fancied anything from there after the workout. I would have no qualms whatsoever about grocery shopping with my swimsuit under my summer frock.

When we got home, Joseph could watch a movie or catch up on a show while I organized the day’s inventory purchases and took pictures for contacts in Virginia as needed. Then we could have dinner and relax, maybe watch a mystery show or two (we’re into Father Brown lately, but you never know, we might be watching the latest season of Harry Wild by then.)

I forgot to mention that we would have a treadmill in our house at this point, and I probably went for a little spin on it before I went to church, but after I lounged around with my morning coffee the way I am doing right now.

Not a bad Sunday schedule, right? The work part would be fun, and the trade-off for working on Sunday would be taking Monday off. I’m almost there. At least, I hope I am.

All pictures are from the Chicago area except the one with Sasha. 🐈‍⬛

05/18/2026

Sorry to disappear for almost two weeks, but big changes are coming soon and I have been very busy. I know this page still says that I’m based in Oak Park, and PROFESSIONALLY this is still true due to my involvement with Style Society. But for the past few years my RESIDENCE has been in Virginia.

This is about to change! My Richmond house is for sale, I’m in DC so the house can be shown without any homeowners or pets in the way (it was the closest I could get that would let me bring the animals) and I AM MOVING HOME TO THE CHICAGO AREA VERY SOON. How soon? I don’t know yet. I’m looking, but I can’t make any big moves until I get RVA House under contract.

What this means for my future, work-wise: I will be able to participate in Style Society Club events and activities in ways that aren’t currently possible due to distance. I will resume shopping in the Chicago area on a full-time basis, much more productive than shopping in Richmond. This means a lot more fantastic stuff will be up for grabs in Oak Park, but it also means that I will be able to supply all my Virginia selling partners even better than before and establish a showroom in my home. I can’t wait to be back in the neighborhood full-time. But for now, enjoy a few pictures from life as I know it at the moment.

05/06/2026

This isn’t to say that we don’t have florals, if that’s your preference. But a dress like this is definitely mine! Yes, Virginia, there are people who still wear a lot of black during the spring and summer. I’m one of them! I got you covered. 🖤🖤🖤

Who says spring means only florals? 🖤 We're making a case for edgy leather and crisp pleats. Turn heads in this gorgeous Alice + Olivia skirt dress, part of the newly dropped Collection at Style Society Club

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05/05/2026

This picture is 5 years old and Ana’s J McLaughlin dress is long since sold, but I have a couple more cute pieces from this brand heading to Style Society Club tomorrow, plus Cotelac, Frame, Rungolee, Parker, Jenni Kayne, Sea New York, Rebecca Taylor, Rundholz, Vince, Theory, Joie, Gudrun Sjoden, L’Agence and more. Check it out at 137 N. Oak Park Avenue, suite 125 in Oak Park! Moses, your Style Society Club host with the most, took this picture. True story.

05/02/2026

Happy Caturday from Sofia!

Oak Park and Chicago area friends, do you realize that Style Society Club gets 30+ new arrivals from me every week? Hand-picked second hand designer finds in excellent or better condition, sourced with this specific venue in mind. The last box included pieces from Eileen Fisher, Maje, Veronica Beard, Shoshanna, Lafayette 148, Studio Gampe, Elie Tahari, Escada, Marc Cain, Luna Luz, Alice and Olivia, Ganni and Theory. The second box is headed their way and packed with more Eileen F, Veronica B, Theory and Lafayette plus Vince, Ted Baker, Piazza Sempione, Rundholz black label and main line, J McLaughlin, DL1961, Heather Harlan, Porto AND Inizio, St. John and Hugo Boss. I’m shopping for the next shipment right now, and while the final lineup will need to be approved by Moses, I can tell you what’s in my stash as of this moment: more Ganni, Rundholz and Porto, tops from Parker, Tulip, J McLaughlin, L’Agence, Peruvian Connection and Apiece Apart, dresses from Rebecca Taylor, Xirena, Rungolee and Reiss, spring styles from Cotelac, Milly, Vince and Frame, and stay tuned because I’m still shopping!

05/02/2026

I’m a big fan of this brand. I’m wearing their lip balm right now. True story. By all means, treat the moms in your life to allllll the skincare goodies, but treat yourself too!

04/28/2026

A few opinions based on my experience shopping for other people’s wardrobes and my own…

Synthetic fabrics are not automatically rubbish. Brands like Sun Kim and Jason (same designer, different lines) do great things with microfiber. Porto and Maria Pinto’s nylon blends pack and travel well and have amazing durability. St. John built an entire brand on a blend of wool and rayon. The manufacture of synthetics has a fairly heavy footprint, though, so I prefer to buy these things second hand.

Natural fabrics are not automatically lovely. Cheap, short fiber cashmere and wool knits pill like crazy and require constant maintenance. I have handled so much mediocre cotton and linen, it isn’t funny. Thin, scratchy fabric. Meh.

“Made in China” doesn’t automatically mean that a garment sucks. I don’t love outsourcing as a practice, but if a piece is still solid though “imported” I will still buy it.

Made in the USA or Europe doesn’t automatically mean that a garment is amazing. I have seen plenty of Italian-made (for example) clothing with shoddy construction, incredible though it may sound. If I am unfamiliar with a brand, one of the first things I do is examine the seams on the interior. If the manufacturer cheaped out, the item stays on the rack.

A low end 1950s dress is comparable or better quality than a higher end 2026 one. Fact. I just watched an instagram reel about how unimpressive a certain popular brand’s quality is for the prices they charge, and she’s entirely correct. (Tin roof rusted, but fancy, in case you’re wondering. Follow itsolgavi on IG because she knows what’s up.) BTW I have never ever seen that brand in a second hand store until just after watching that reel, and I stood there and laughed because Olga was spot on. The dress was adorable, but the craftsmanship was not. I left it.

Am I saying that everything at a $400-ish price point is meh? Of course not. But a relatively ordinary 50s dress will be just as good, or better.

Just because a garment comes from a popular/well established/respected/expensive brand, doesn’t mean it’s for me or my clientele. If I don’t like it, I leave it. Full stop.

I don’t care if a piece is from last season, or five years old, or 50 years old. I shop for what’s good, not for what’s trendy. I want a long-term relationship with the contents of my wardrobe and I am in business for people who want the same thing.

On that note, it’s time for me to stop talking about clothes and start looking for them!

Pictures are from the 2020 winter holiday trunk show I did with Moses at Selleria Veneta. Style Society Club will have similar events when I return to Oak Park! I probably won’t be rocking a mask though.