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Category: Style Tips

Make the Most of Your Last Chance to Wear Summer Dresses!

The stores are luring you to buy fall clothes while we still have warm summer days to enjoy.  Meanwhile, summer clothes are on deep discount.  Do you have summer dresses you would still like to wear?  Or maybe you want to snap one up on sale right now!  And maybe you still want to wear your sandals for as long as possible before switching to boots.  Now is the time to make the most of your last chance to wear summer dresses!

My Style Tip of the day is not about just any summer dress. How about something a little more special that you might not have worn yet this season?  Age doesn’t matter.  Just give yourself permission to wear what you love.  The tip below shows one way to stretch your wardrobe boundaries.

At the end of this post, I’m including ways to transition your dresses to Fall. And there are links to my posts on layering and making all of your outfits work for colder weather.

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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.

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Timeless fashion advice that is still helpful to this day!

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3 Easy Ways to Make a Neutral Outfit Exciting

Since beige is a top trending color right now, you might be wondering what accessories would go best with it.  Color and/or shine can help to liven it up.  The tips in this post aren’t only for beige, though.  As an installment in my Style Tips category, I have three ways to add that final touch of brilliance to a neutral outfit.  So why don’t you give them a try?  Age doesn’t matter.  These are three easy ways anyone can use to make their neutral outfits look so much more exciting! Continue Reading

How to Light Up a Gloomy Day or Casual Outfit

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Riina Tunic and earrings from Soft Surroundings

Today’s style tip is about how to light up a gloomy day or a casual or grunge outfit.  Age doesn’t matter.  All you do is add a simple accessory that you most likely already have.  Age doesn’t matter.

It has been raining a lot this summer.  But even if it’s not a gray rainy day, sometimes we need to lift ourselves out of a gloomy mood.  And if your mood and the weather are good, maybe it’s your outfit that is plain, boring or even gray.  So in this installment of my Style Tips series, here is an easy way to brighten your day and your outfit!

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How to Easily Look as Slim as You Like

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Seaming and insets make this Floral Applique Tunic from JD Williams make you look slim

In this last of my series of four Body Image posts, I want to share a number of ways to easily create a slimmer silhouette with your outfits.  Age doesn’t matter.  These tricks and tips give you the design elements that can help you to easily look as slim as you like.  You surely are aware of one or more of them, but I hope there are also some helpful techniques here for you to consider.  So what are you waiting for?  Take a look and try out some of the following outfit formulas.  And then be sure to come back and tell us what worked!

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