I went to the Capsule show at the gorgeous and historic Angel Orensanz Center in NY. Capsule showcases new brands and designers for buyers, stylists, and moi.  My friend Greg and I went and were even photographed a few times while we were there. As we walked around, I decided I would feature one of my favorite items of clothing from life and from the Capsule event: T-shirts. You can never have too many of them, I always say, and so fell in love with a bunch at Capsule. I also was enamored of a certain denim you will hear about. I guess I am really just a tomboy at heart, just like my grandmother, and T-shirts and jeans will forever be my fashion staples.

Into the Capsule we go.

Cavern is based in L.A. Artist /Designer Adam Tullie greeted us and proceeded to show us his framed artworks, which he prints on the T-shirts. The collection is called Desert Wind and it is for Spring 2009, but I want it all now. Perfect soft T-shirts are dyed, washed, and hung in the sun to fade into dusty grays and purples, then printed with falcon crests, weaves (pictured), Native American neck pieces, hawks, peacocks, and nomads. I also found out they sell them in my neighborhood at the store Oak.

Another line I quite like the tees of is Cassette, also based in L.A., and sold at Steven Alan - whom I know from taking an acting class with him some years ago - what a great guy. For Spring 2009, Cassette's Homme line features soft white T-shirts with cool prints and cute names like Press Play, which looks like a Native American/African design. My favorite one had a zebra print on it and said Cassette across it in red in a new-meets-classic punk design. Their jeans have cute names: VHS and BETA (I love when a brand sticks to their concept), and they have some garments made of bamboo.

My friend Greg's favorite T-shirts that he owns to date are by Endovanera, also based in California. The over-all line is quite gorgeous with beautifully cut, draped, and thoughtfully-built clothes for men and women, in blacks and whites and muted colors. The T-shirts are very simple and very chic, some with buttoned collars.

The denim I must tell you about comes from the self-proclaimed Denim Nerd: Brandon Svarc of Montreal. Naked & Famous Denim is made from rare and raw denim. Brandon showed us many jeans, including a pair that are 30 percent silk and a pair made from the "strongest denim there is," which seems like it really was (we touched it all). He said this pair was so strong they were good for wearing on a motorcycle ride. This man was seriously passionate about his denim; he really is a denim nerd.  The denim is raw, simple, and special -- some of the new collection is Japanese selvage denim, made on old-style looms, the finest and most rare (and expensive) denim there is. He laughed when he said "most expensive," because Svarc's jeans are not as expensive as many other companies' and are actually higher in quality.

There is a fit guide on their site and they are made for both men and women. The name of the company is a fun poke at today's celebrities, the logo a 1950s throwback a la Roy Lichtenstein. May this Denim Nerd prevail over the rest.

To wrap up, I say take Capsule for two days and call me in the morning.

Theo Kogan is the MOLI View's contributing editor for Fashion & Design. Her THEOlogy column appears Tuesdays and Thursdays.

So maybe Martha Stewart started it, or rehashed it into popularity, but faux bois has never been hotter. It could be the joyous obsessiveness of Jon and Em of the great blog itsknotwood, or the fact that it's a kind of final frontier of making something that's not only real but, kind of, ubiquitous, into something that's remarkable and fake -- but intentionally, as opposed to cheaply (like that melamine dresser in the low-rent hotel).

The woodgrain treatment on nearly anything gives it that touch of je ne sais quoi. Or maybe it's a kind of domestic irony: We've had irony in books, in movies, in music (hello, Shoegazer, will you make me move?), and even in clothing (schoolgirl outfit on Britney way back when). So now we have it in the house.

I love it. I love this vintage woodgrain canister being sold by Etsy's vintagemimi shop . I heart Etsy big time, and this is a great, one-of-a-kind canister you could really throw your cookies in for only $7.

Feel like some birch around your beer? Try these woodgrain-glazed mugs by McCoy, from the gloriously woodgrained 1970s, available at cyber-attic seller Hyacinth House.

And the modern-day version's on Etsy (props to itsknotwood for pointing them out), by Marmod8. Along with faux-bois-glazed star-shaped dishes and ashtrays and plates and ...

UrbanOutfitters, the pseudohipster megalopoly we love to hate, has these brilliant floor mats in Painted Floor, Log Cabin, and Distressed Wood (as well as some other, stoner textures). Not cheap, but word is they last. Nearly as long as real wood?

Martha Stewart herself created a faux bois "tissue boutique," which, hello, is a tissue box. A 25-dollar tissue box. Oddly, the woodgrain is mucusy-grey. Not ironic, actually. Just - snot.

On the other hand are her insanely un-rustic faux bois towels.  Splinters? Don't think so.

Jana Martin is living splinter-free in style. Her blog, Making Room, runs every week in the MOLI View's Fashion & Design section.