While Mettler currently channels her style icon Jane Birkin and the "preppy -girl -next -door" type - wearing lots of white denim and colored jeans with striped boat-neck T-shirts - that wasn't always the case. The book looks at seven different types of tomboys: the rebel, the sophisticate, the jock, the prep, the adventuress, the girl next door and the naturalist. Eventually, her proposal landed on someone's desk at Rizzoli and roughly six months later she had a book. While turning the blog into a book wasn't the plan all along, Mettler says she thought "very early on" that the subject matter would make a good book, but logistically wasn't quite sure how to get that done. And what was the era and context of this fashion," said Mettler. "It is a lot about fashion, but it's a lot about what these women were saying and doing. It was from those questions that she decided to start a blog in May 2010 to serve as her "inspiration board." The self-proclaimed history and 20th century pop-culture obsessive said the blog was a way to tie in love for both history and fashion. "I kept hearing these bloggers say, 'Oh I love this girl (we'll say it was a Sartorialist photo or something) she's so tomboy chic, or she's got great tomboy style.' And I was kind of like, 'Huh? That's a thing now?' Then the wheels started turning and I thought 'What makes a tomboy stylish?'" Mettler explained.
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