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Category: Outfit Combinations

15 Powerful Ways to Speak Your Truth with a T-Shirt

Looking forward to the 2020 elections, t-shirts are being worn in support of various candidates already.  You can add caps and buttons to your outfit of the day as well.  Age doesn’t matter.  Anyone can choose to express themselves with the way they dress, including wearing the slogans of their choice.  So I have come up with more than 15 ways to speak your truth with a t-shirt.The creative styling and outfit ideas in this post focus on different ways to style a political tee.  But you might like to get even more outfit ideas by reading about regular tees worn with jeans in my post “How to Make Jeans and a Tee Look More Interesting” HERE.

So now, let’s take a look at over 15 powerful ways to speak your truth with a t-shirt.

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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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How to Look Like Business and Stay Cool When It’s Hot

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Look-Of-Linen Big Shirt Separates from Draper’s & Damon’s

Do you sometimes wonder how you can feel cool yet look classy when it’s hot?  I found the answer long ago in the book:  Hot Tips:  1000 Fashion and Beauty Tricks by Frances Patiky Stein.  In the “Summer Tricks” section of the book, she tells how to make an instant summer suit.  I’ve used this outfit idea dozens of times when I was working and it kept me cool while being office-appropriate.  Although this won’t work for a very conservative corporate environment where an actual suit is required, it’s useful in many other ways.  You can put together your own suit from cool separates where the dress codes is not so strict as well as for business evenings, business travel, city day meetings and events and even business in country settings.  Age doesn’t matter at all!

First I’ll give you the trick as presented by Stein in her book.  Then I’ll tell you how I used it myself and how this outfit combination can be adapted to different occasions.  This post is an installment in my Style Tips category.

Summer suit Hot Tips
Timeless fashion advice that is still helpful to this day!

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How to Make Your Pencil Skirt Useful During the Warm Seasons

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Azure Pencil Skirt from Anthropologie with a lace-up top, flat sandals and straw bag

Do you tend to reach for your pencil skirt often in the Spring and Summer?  Or does it just sit in your closet getting overlooked while you wear shorts and sundresses?  Mine has been sitting there waiting, so I decided I may as well start using it.  It doesn’t matter if you are going to work, doing errands, going out for the evening, or just lounging on the weekend.  Age doesn’t matter.  I have come up with about 50 ways to make your pencil skirt useful during the warm seasons!

There are so many ways to wear a pencil skirt that I am writing about it in two parts.  This is Part One:  For the Warm Weather Seasons, Spring and Summer.  In the fall, I will write Part Two:  For the Cool Weather Seasons, Fall and Winter.

I share my outfit ideas and list them for you so that you can use them to put your clothes together every day without having to think about it.  I encourage you to save the ideas you like out of my posts and put them in a place to easily refer to as needed.  I hope that it is helpful to you.  Let me know by leaving a reply below this post! Continue Reading

How to Make Cargo Pants New Again

Women’s utility looks borrow from the boys with comfortable menswear styles such as utility jackets and cargo pants.  A 90’s girl-band staple, cargo pants are a trending fashion again and again.  That’s just how fashion goes:  it cycles in a constant spiral of new ways to style the old.  So age doesn’t matter.  There are lots of different cargo pants to fit your style, needs and comfort level.  And then, you can wear them with what you love.  Throw out rules to make room for creativity.  In this post, I explore how to style some updated looks.   And don’t put those cargoes away for the summer, because they can be used in fall and winter too!

Below you will find:

  • What are Cargo Pants?
  • The Versatility of Cargo Pants
  • The History of Cargo Pants
  • How to Style Cargo Pants
  • 26 Outfit Combinations With Cargo Pants

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