https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80 Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:52:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-939673 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:19:59 +0000 Inge 939673@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm closing this week's thread. Thanks so much everyone! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938951 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:12:17 +0000 Inge 938951@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:-)) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938949 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:10:43 +0000 Angie 938949@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:) You're on the ball! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938934 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:38:50 +0000 Inge 938934@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Archer, I'll see if I can find the article you are referring to.</p> <p>Angie: yup, that's the plan (see my previous comment;-) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938910 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:04 +0000 Angie 938910@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>High five! You can probably also link to the discussion we had on the forum about the article, Inge. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938823 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:38:50 +0000 Archer 938823@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This maybe too late or NQR but check out Diana Pemberton's article on real women dot com about dressing to attract a great guy. She also has a book on it. Could be an interesting juxtaposition with some of the other links. Sorry cant make link directly. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938784 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:36:52 +0000 Inge 938784@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Angie, Vildy, Shannon, Sarah, Una and Marcy, thanks so much, such great links!<br /><br />Angie: I'm on Team Set The Stylish Example too.<br />Una: You and Angie are linking to the same article:-) Thanks again for starting the discussion on the forum, lots of food for thought.&nbsp;I'll be sure to link to it in the Thursday Link Love post too. https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938529 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:33:19 +0000 Parsley 938529@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Here's an informative story about what really happens to those clothes you donate:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/05/21/185596830/the-global-afterlife-of-your-donated-clothes">http://www.npr.org/blogs/paral.....ed-clothes</a>?<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938457 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:56:11 +0000 Vildy 938457@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Shannon, my son went to a wedding this weekend. College friends. It was a daytime wedding, lasting until early evening and held at the parents' home in the Pine Barrens, NJ.&nbsp; Though it wasn't clear from the formal invitation what exactly was happening where and what would be found at the only address given (a dot in the wilderness). My son wore a suit.&nbsp; He's 25.&nbsp; Groom's brother helped with the car parking and wore a suit, presumably the groomsmen also did. We eventually pulled up into the yard and waited for him to be ready to leave. So we saw lots of the guests.&nbsp; One middle aged woman in flip flops - not thong sandals. People in shorts. Tee shirts. Old men in jacket and slacks. <br />People in their 40's and younger mostly looked like they were going to a barbecue. People older than that, maybe 50-50.&nbsp; I was surprised. My son has some weight problems and his good suit was tight so he bought a new one specifically to attend the wedding!<br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938353 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:38:17 +0000 catgirl 938353@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Are we a nation of slobs? &nbsp;Generating an interesting discussion here on the forum!<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://jezebel.com/we-are-a-nation-of-unkempt-bedraggled-slobs-and-we-lo-508773349"><a href="http://jezebel.com/we-are-a-na" rel="nofollow">http://jezebel.com/we-are-a-na</a>.....-508773349</a><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938352 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:36:20 +0000 sarah 938352@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I found <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/business/global/hm-led-labor-breakthrough-by-european-retailers.html?_r=0">this article</a> in the business section of the NYT an interesting update on how major labels&nbsp;are responding to the crises in Bangladesh garment factories. https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938335 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:18:41 +0000 Transcona Shannon 938335@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ As a mother of a 17-year-old young man, I'm constantly mortified at what many of his friends wear, not only when hanging out at my house with my son, but when they go out for dinner with their parents, on a date with their girlfriend, or even when they go for a job interview. I know we focus on female style/fashion here, but I think some of the late teen/early 20's men in the world could follow some of the advice in this column&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.realmenrealstyle.com/reasons-young-man-dress-sharp/">http://www.realmenrealstyle.co.....ess-sharp/</a>&nbsp;from Real Men Real Style. A few comments I found a bit old fashioned, but overall, I thought the article was pretty spot on.<br /><br />Perfect example, my son applied for a job at the new Target in our area and was called to a job fair, along with 120 other young people who had applied and made it to the first stage of interviews. My son wore his dark grey dress pants, light grey button down, tucked in with leather belt. No tie since we felt it wasn't that formal. Black leather dress shoes. And had a shower before he went. He said he was by far the most dressed up and that one fellow arrived in cut off jeans, flip flops and tee. My son made it to the second round, Mr. Cut Offs was sent home. https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938257 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:08:49 +0000 Vildy 938257@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I already posted a link but some may want to be reminded to click through on this link <br /><a href="http://magazine.nd.edu/news/29473-the-lost-art-of-dress/" rel="nofollow">http://magazine.nd.edu/news/29.....-of-dress/</a><br />within the Erica Bunker link.&nbsp; Further interview with the professor in which she describes and illustrates her theory of how design and fashion and pattern envelope drawings became infantilized in the 60's as women's clothes began to resemble kindergarten clothes. Reminded me of Alsion Lurie's book about how adult leisure and play clothes tended to resemble toddler sandbox clothes. <br /><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-938040 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:06:08 +0000 Angie 938040@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ This article made me sad :(. I vote defy your environmental norm and set the stylish example. <br /><br /><a href="http://jezebel.com/we-are-a-nation-of-unkempt-bedraggled-slobs-and-we-lo-508773349" rel="nofollow">http://jezebel.com/we-are-a-na.....-508773349</a><br /><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-937879 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:52:50 +0000 Inge 937879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ These are all great, thanks everyone!<br /><br />Ingunn and Dana: we try to do one link per forum member per week, so I'll use one of your links this week, and save the other one for next week if that's OK with you.<br /><br />MaryK and Vildy: those are a hoot:-)<br />MaryK: Love it that your first link went to that book page, VERY cool!-)<br /><br />Lisa: couldn't agree more that Bermudas are not something you have to avoid;-) https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-937587 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:11:15 +0000 ironkurtin 937587@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Love Jayne Min.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/out-with-the-old-jayne-mins-summer-wardrobe-update-/#1" rel="nofollow">http://www.vogue.com/vogue-dai.....update-/#1</a><br /><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-937312 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:20:42 +0000 ironkurtin 937312@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Recap of each decade by color, from Pantone.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone.aspx?pg=21111&amp;ca=90&amp;from=hpbanner" rel="nofollow">http://www.pantone.com/pages/p.....m=hpbanner</a><br /><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-937311 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:19:42 +0000 Vildy 937311@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ I'm linking to one post but the whole blog had me howling. A comedy writer with no style sense takes on the Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style, one month at a time. Pigs, chickens, goat on trampolines with tennis balls stuck on their horns...&nbsp; Love her insights into how people treat you depending on how you dress. Here's her take on Bohemian style: "No one expects you to be on time.&nbsp; No one expects you to be prepared.&nbsp; No one expects you to be in charge.&nbsp; It’s like you’re taking a vacation from being a grown-up.&nbsp; It’s wonderful, really."<br /><a href="http://myyearoffabulous.com/2013/04/" rel="nofollow">http://myyearoffabulous.com/2013/04/</a><br /><br />I read through the entire blog.<br /><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-937100 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:42:44 +0000 MsMary 937100@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Oops!&nbsp; Wrong link and can't edit from work for some reason (although the 65 books you need to read is pretty cool, too!).<br /><br />Here's the Jezebel link:&nbsp; <a href="http://powderroom.jezebel.com/please-stop-telling-me-i-dont-have-to-dress-up-for-w-505596878" rel="nofollow">http://powderroom.jezebel.com/.....-505596878</a> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-937096 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:41:21 +0000 MsMary 937096@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Saw this last week but missed the cutoff, so here it is:&nbsp; <br /><br /><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/books-you-need-to-read-in-your-20s" rel="nofollow">Please Stop Telling Me I Don't Have to 'Dress Up' For Work!</a> from Jezebel.&nbsp; So funny, and so true!&nbsp; Warning:&nbsp; bad words!&nbsp; https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-937068 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:10:20 +0000 Lisa 937068@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ This article talks about spring trends to avoid.&nbsp; I would avoid clear heels myself, but I regularly sport Bermuda's in the heat.<br /><br /><a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/the-thread-how-to/spring-trends-to-avoid-212115199.html" rel="nofollow">http://shine.yahoo.com/the-thr.....15199.html</a><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-936929 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:27:37 +0000 Ingunn 936929@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Hi Inge,&nbsp;<br />I've recently developed a deeper interest in shopping vintage clothing. I see vintage as a means to lighten my footstep on earth, ease the pressure on my wallet&nbsp;and at the same time be able to develop a more personal wardrobe. Shopping vintage can be challenging, but I find that my newly gained YLF-knowledge of trends, classics and so on helps tremendously. These guidelines&nbsp;for shopping vintage&nbsp;over at <i>A pair and a spare</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;are spot on, I think.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://apairandasparediy.com/2013/05/how-to-wear-vintage.html">http://apairandasparediy.com/2.....ntage.html</a><br /><br />I also found this blog post at Erica B.'s DIY Style interesting. It references to America only, but frankly, this happens everywhere. Are most people&nbsp;no longer able to dress appropriately, and if we do, will we draw as much negative attention as positive? Why is it provocative to some people that others dress well? The post points out that basic sewing skills are not that hard to achieve, to which I agree.<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ericabunker.com/2013/05/america-nation-of-slobs.html">http://www.ericabunker.com/201.....slobs.html</a><br /> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/please-post-your-weekly-links-here-80#post-936916 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:51:19 +0000 Inge 936916@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Good morning,<br /><br />I hope everyone had a lovely weekend!<br /><br />We're back with another weekly links thread. Did you come across anything interesting this week? Do tell!<br /><br />Thank you.