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Category: Outfit Combinations

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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Do You Want to Be Absolutely Cool in the Sun?

When it’s hot outside, what could be cooler than the beach or the pool?  I have rounded up some cool looks for you when you visit the water.  Age doesn’t matter.  There’s something here for everyone!  If you want to be absolutely cool in the sun, you’ll want to go to the pool, the beach, the lake, the ocean, or a resort.  So when you’re getting ready for fun in the sun, you can use this as a guide in deciding what to wear.

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How to Be Modest in Absolutely Anything Bodycon

Do you have clothes that are too skimpy, too tight, too short or too revealing for you to feel good wearing them?  You don’t have to wear them out in public the way they are, yet you don’t have to get rid of them.  You could, however, wear them at home with your significant other!  😉  But today I’ll share tips with you on how to be more modest in absolutely anything body conscious so you can go out anywhere, anytime in comfort and confidence.  Then just have fun and enjoy yourself!

Age doesn’t matter.  There are ways to wear body-conscious clothing (or bodycon, for short) that can make them perfectly presentable.  If you let a little of your most beautiful self peek out and add something to cover the rest, you’ve got it down!

So let’s get started on exploring the ways to wear bodycon and then come up with some outfit ideas.

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