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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

New for You from 9 of the Best Bloggers!

Fashion Flash, an online magazine by and for women over 40, is featured here every Monday.  The members of Fashion Flash are bloggers and podcasters who cover everything from beauty to fashion, wellness to health and fitness, lifestyle to reinvention of your best life and more.  There’s something for everyone; age doesn’t matter.  Each week, we take turns hosting the emag on our site.  This week’s host is Cindy at Prime Beauty Blog.  Click on her name below to connect to the Fashion Flash and see what’s new for you from nine of the best bloggers!

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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 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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11 of the Best Bloggers and Podcasters for Women Over 40!

Today’s issue of Fashion Flash features 11 of the best bloggers and podcasters for women over 40.  Age doesn’t matter; all are welcome!

I am a member of the Fashion Flash e-magazine.  Every Monday, we take turns hosting the emag on our website where you can browse the featured posts and choose the topics of your choice.  The wide variety of subjects covered include beauty, fashion, health and fitness, travel, lifestyle, reinvention of your best life and more.

This week’s host is Allison at Never Say Die Beauty.  Click on her name below to connect to the early August edition of Fashion Flash.  Among the other subjects being covered this week is mine on “How to Heal With the Amazing Energy of Crystals.”

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