Every year during the holiday season, between Thanksgiving and New Year, I do a series of festive outfit ideas. A few years ago, the series was on velvet: velvet tops, bottoms, coverups and a number of style tips, including how to wear velvet every day. You can find the links to these posts below this article. How to Style a Velvet Dress is the sixth in the series. It is now updated to provide you with the highest quality content. I hope it will help you to make your dress more versatile, as it can take you from day to evening throughout the Fall and Winter months. In fact, a velvet slip dress can work year round!
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Day to Evening, Evening, Holiday, Outfit Combinations, Special Occasion, Style Inspiration, Velvet Series, Ways to Wear It
Festive Style, Velvet, Velvet Dress
When you are thinking of what to wear to casual December celebrations, here’s a reminder for an easy style formula. All you really have to do is dress up denim for the holidays. That way, you can be comfortable and festive all at once. Age doesn’t matter. I hope this tip inspires some wonderful outfits that make you feel joyful wherever you may go this season!
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Holiday, Outfit Combinations, Style Inspiration, Style Tips
Denim, Easy Style, Sparkle & Shine, Style, Style Tips
A leather jacket of any sort is a wardrobe staple, so a faux leather blazer will serve you well. Although black is classic, any color that you love and looks best on you will work; you don’t have to stick with basic black. Joining the opposing characteristics of a conservative design with an edgy material results in a lasting style that always looks new. So age doesn’t matter.
In this post, I am sharing 14 outfit ideas for a black blazer, 9 combinations for other colors, 8 combos for evening outfits, 3 for business and a few more. Once you have a leather blazer, I hope you take these ideas and look through your closet to find new ways to wear it.
In this post, as well as throughout my blog, leather is always meant to be faux in order to be kind to animals.
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Outfit Combinations, Style Inspiration, Ways to Wear It
Fall/Winter, Faux Leather Blazer, Outfit Ideas
Some people think we are going through an apocalypse. It sure seems like it to me politically and socially, even meteorologically. I don’t expect a nuclear catastrophe, but I think we’re going to have to rebuild from the ruins of the world we used to know. As we find ways to survive, there is an entire post-apocalyptic style ready to make it easier for us to show up in creative ways every day. So I figured now is a good time to explore how to combine utilitarian clothes with our creative touch to stretch our wardrobe and make it work for us.
The beige and bronze feature photo of this post shows an outfit in the urban nomadic style by designer Nicholas K. It is a bit more futuristic and not as down and dirty as post-apocalyptic style normally is. But interpreting styles to make them your own in a modern way according to your tastes is what the fashion game is all about. This way, age doesn’t matter because you just tweak the look the way you like. Keep this in mind as you check out the key concepts of how to dress at the end of the world!
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Outfit Combinations, Style Inspiration
Apocalyptic Style, Avant Garde, Futuristic, Gothic, Grunge, Post-apocalyptic, Punk, Rock Chic, Urban Nomadic
It’s a good time to indulge in Gothic style. Across culture, entertainment, and art, the ’80s subculture known for its all-black trappings and anachronistic aesthetic has unexpectedly reemerged in 2025.
The elements of Goth fashion derive from the Victorian Gothic era in the 19th Century, styled on the dark side. Think Edgar Allen Poe. Present-day Goth originally emerged from the post-punk scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, and has caught on around the world and persists to this day. It is mysterious and poetic, edgy and dramatic. So whether you are Goth from way back or just looking into it, I have some up-to-date ideas here to create this dark, romantic look.
Age doesn’t matter. You can get bolder as you get older. That’s not to say you can’t tone down this, or any, style. You can always be your true self and then throw in an element of style for fun, experimentation or self-expression. Trying out new things keeps us modern and youthful, and adding a third piece to a basic outfit is what makes things interesting.
So I am going to lay out the elements of Gothic style, focusing on the romantic side. But you don’t have to use them all at once. One at a time is just fine. You can go crazy with it, you can add Gothic pieces to something that’s the total opposite, you can wear it just for Halloween, or you can just buy one piece that you love and wear it forevermore. 😉
What follows are the fashion elements and outfit ideas that will help you to get inspired by Gothic Style.
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Outfit Combinations, Style Inspiration, Ways to Wear It
Gothic, Style
