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
This is the second in a series of posts on velvet pieces, from jackets to tops, skirts, pants, dusters and kimonos. You can find all of these in my Velvet Series HERE. As usual, I’m sharing plenty of outfit ideas to make it easy for you to get dressed with style every day. You can wear velvet for the holidays, in the evenings or any day just for you. In this post, you’ll find out how to style a velvet jacket or blazer for every day of the festive season. Treat yourself to this soft material any time and especially during hard times. Age doesn’t matter.
This is an updated post to provide the highest quality content.
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Day to Evening, Evening, Holiday, Outfit Combinations, Special Occasion, Style Inspiration, Velvet Series, Ways to Wear It
Business Wear, Casual Style, Evening Wear, Festive Style, Holiday Dressing, Velvet, Velvet Jacket
The holidays are here and I wish you happy times ahead! What will you be doing to celebrate this year? I was disappointed that my family’s get-togethers have shrunk since Covid. Many things changed after that, didn’t they? I have different ways of celebrating than in the past. But whatever the occasion, here’s a really good style tip that fits right in with fun times now and throughout the entire year. Let’s create more outfits by dressing down a cocktail dress using the ideas and examples below!
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Day to Evening, Evening, Holiday, Outfit Combinations, Style Tips
Date Night, Dressed-Up Day, Dressing Down, Evening Wear, Festive Style, Holiday Dressing, Outfit Ideas, Style
Do you believe you are the decider of what you wear? Do you want to be told what to wear in your 60’s? I say older is bolder, so age doesn’t matter. What’s popular is irrelevant, right? So why don’t you wear what you love and be your true self? In that vein, why don’t we throw out all the rules about tiaras? Let’s follow the lead of designers who have added them to just about any outfit.
Tiaras are still in style, but mostly for weddings. I assume that’s because it takes some guts to wear one casually. But like everything else, it can be dressed down.
If you prefer to look and feel more normal, there are also tiara-style headbands. So never fear! This is doable.
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Accessories, Evening, Ways to Wear It
Accessories, Evening, Festive Style, Holiday Dressing, Jewelry, Statement Jewelry
It’s fun to dress up to go out for Mexican food and drink on or around Cinco de Mayo. (I like to avoid holiday crowds and celebrate on a different day.) Mexican is my favorite ethnic food choice. We have many authentic Mexican restaurants in and around Detroit, especially in Mexican Town. I’ve collected the style elements here to help you create your own Mexican-style outfit for your fiesta!
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Inspiration, Style Inspiration
Cinco de Mayo, Festive Style, Mexican style, Style
