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How to Dress to Improve Your Mood When the Weather is Gloomy
It has been 5 straight days and you haven’t seen the sun. It finally stopped raining but that vitamin D is majorly lacking. Welcome to Seattle. The weather can have such a huge impact on your mood and honestly how you feel about your self as you put on black rain parka followed by gray wool coat day after day to brave the weather. I am often guilty of falling into this habit but it doesn’t have to be that way!! Your clothing can actually lift your spirits, brighten up your day and lessen the impact of those gray clouds on your mood. Here’s how…
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How to Make Out of Season Items Work For the Season You Are In
There are some seasonal pieces that don’t make any sense when you wear them in incorrect weather conditions such as shorts in the winter or wool sweaters in the summer, but occasionally you have an item that doesn’t quite fit the season that could be made to work with some creative styling like today’s long wrap skirt. Making the most of your wardrobe throughout the year should always be a goal but it isn’t always easy to achieve when you are staring at a shelf full of summer clothes on a 40 degree day. With a few tricks however you can easy start busting out most of those summer pieces easily.
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Gucci-fy Your Winter Look
First there was the 70’s trend, everywhere in every collection with different interpretations throughout retailers everywhere. Then a designer takes the trend, flips it on its head and makes it more relevant, wearable and something entirely unique. Gucci is this disruptive force redifining what the 70’s trend should be and consequently how we should dress for the upcoming year. Instead of simply breaking out a button up suede skirt and a whole lot of fringe and peasant blouses, Gucci is promoting an opulent librarian meets band groupie meets hippie protester look in an ulta-luxe way that only this new Gucci house could pull off. The result is a relevant yet completely…
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Say Hello to Hat Season
‘Cock your hat; Angles are Attitude’-Frank Sinatra Hats haven’t always been the tools of taste makers and style aficionados exclusively, in a bygone era they were an everyday essential for every person. A hat was as much an inescapable part of your outfit as your shoes or a shirt. Trends change however and in the modern world hats are viewed more as fashion pieces or event specific wear: you wear a hat to the derby or to a garden party in England, on vacation etc, yet the times are changing. It is a season for hats this year as we have seen so many on the runways and I challenge…
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Style for the New Year: If By Train
Wanderlust: There is something about a new year that seems to always re-ignite that passion for travel in us. Perhaps it is because it is one of those priorities that we never actually make time for, it simply never fits in our busy schedule. Maybe it is because of the desire for growth that we all experience at the year’s beginning and we know that seeing new places and being a global citizen can help facilitate that growth in a way nothing else can. This year I didn’t make New Year’s resolutions but I did resolve to make traveling a must instead of a might and I plan on sticking…
