Age doesn't matter.

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100+ Remarkable Ways to Look Terrific in a Faux Fur Vest

A faux fur vest is a good piece to have for Fall and Winter.  You can actually wear one any time of year and age doesn’t matter.  It adds a layer of warmth over your clothes or over a jacket in winter, and can be used as an extra layer under your coat.  When you add a coat over a fur vest, you will be super warm on the coldest days of the year.  Just be sure it’s not bulky!  It’s so versatile that I’ve come up with over 100 ways to look terrific in a faux fur vest.

The fur vest dresses up any outfit in the same way that a statement necklace does.  You can always use an accessory that dresses up your ordinary clothes, especially something nice and warm!  It makes a basic outfit feel lush!  A fur vest can dress up a simple t-shirt with jeans.   It makes a plain button-down look suddenly luxe.  You can even just throw it on over sweatpants to go out the door on the spur of the moment, adding warmth while looking good too!

Use these outfit ideas to make your life easier.  With all of the outfit combinations below, you’ll get maximum use of a fur vest without hardly having to think!

~All references to fur are recommended to be faux in order to be kind to animals.~

How to Dress Up and Warm Up With a Faux Fur Vest

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How to Create Your Own Beautiful Steampunk Style

Do you remember experimenting with your clothes when you first formed your own unique style?  Then you had to adhere to certain dress codes for business and various social events.  Hopefully, you can now wear whatever you want.  Even if you feel you can’t, I still think you should be free to show your true self.  If you haven’t experimented in awhile, I encourage you to start now.  Trying new things is fun, youthful and brings out aspects of yourself that you may not even know you have.  That’s when age doesn’t matter.  So with that in mind, let’s explore Steampunk style.  You can try it out a little or a lot.  Choose from it what you love and add that to your tried and true favorites.

This post explores what Steampunk is, what the elements are that make up the style and how to put them together or add them to existing outfits.  So let’s start exploring!

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How to Layer a Slip Dress Like a Pro

A slip dress is not only a sexy little slip of a thing.  It can be worn solo in the summer, of course, or when you’re feeling sexy….  But you can do so many other things with it:  layer under and/or over during the rest of the year, adding as many layers as you want.  It makes the slip dress wearable for all.  Age doesn’t matter.  To warm up during the cooler months, the style components and outfit combinations below show you how to layer a slip dress like a pro.

This is an update on how to layer a slip dress during cool or cold weather.  My last post was an update on how to layer a slip dress for warm weather.  For lighter and less layers, you see my article on “Does A Slip Dress Really Have to Be Sexy?”  For warmer and heavier layers, continue reading below.

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3 Ways to Take Care of Yourself: Body, Mind and Spirit

Taking care of your health is an act of self respect.  You know how people say to their loved ones, “Take good care of yourself; be well”?  They say that because they love you and they care.  They also say that when they see you’re doing something that’s not in the interest of your good health.  When you take care of yourself, age doesn’t matter because you last longer.  So let’s explore the three ways to take care of yourself:  in body, mind and spirit.

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Why Is It Important to Show Your True Self?

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A few months ago, Life Coach Cat Coluccio wrote a post on her blog called “Vulnerability:  3 Reasons Why Reinvention Begins with You Showing Your True Self at Midlife.”  Here at Your True Self Blog I would like to discuss these aspects of the importance of showing your true self, at midlife and beyond.  Baby boomers today are speaking out, standing up and showing themselves as women never have before.  By doing so, they are changing how women are seen and treated in our society.  It is a legacy being given to future generations of women — a new world in which age doesn’t matter. Continue Reading