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Recent Roundups
Dressing a Short Waist
You are short-waisted when the distance between your shoulders and waistline is shorter than average. There are two ways to determine …
How to Build Your Wardrobe’s Colour Palette
There is no one correct way to build your wardrobe colour palette. Unless you’re in the very unusual situation of starting a …
Fashion News Roundup: July 2021
A fashion rental service from an unexpected source, Ulta Beauty shop-in-shops coming to Target, and other fashion news that caught our …
Twenty-Five Style Tips, Three Years Later
I’ve been in the fashion world for more than half of my life. I’ve learned so much and it makes me very happy to share …
The Shifting Goals of Conventional Figure Flattery
You can think of garment fit and outfit proportions as running along a continuum wit.....onally flattering proportions on one …
51 Years
It feels like I turned 50 yesterday, but here we are one year later. Time flies by faster each year, which is all the more reason to …
Link Love: Dressing for the Job
“200 Years of Newsroom Style.” The Guardian journalists share the role of their outfits in their reporting (and the …
Team Pack or Team Unpack
If you’re in the US, we hope you had a wonderful July 4, and are enjoying the day off. I’ve just come back from visiting my …
Fashion News Roundup: June 2021
A new clean denim line, a biopic about Florence Griffith Joyner, and other news from the style trenches this month. Tiffany Haddish is …
