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Correct Season to Wear White… Is it ok to wear white after Labor Day?

Correct Season to Wear White... Hi! I need some help. I have a co-worker who showed up to work yesterday in an off-white linen outfit. I told her to send it to the dry cleaners and put it away until next spring. I realize that we are in Southern California and the temperature is in the 80's today, but some fashion rules still apply, right??? (I already told her about the white shoe thing). She asked me to write them down for her so that she will know what to wear and what not to wear (from season to season). Do you have any of that written down somewhere?? Would appreciate any help you can provide. (Pasadena, CA) Rules, my

Accessorizing a Corset Top

Accessorizing a Corset Top I recently bought a black silk shantung corset top, and I have no idea what to wear with it on bottom? (Chicago, IL) Bravo to you, the corset top is one of the strongest silhouettes this season. The super sexiness of it gets a modern fashion bolt when paired with more classic offerings, like a superbly tailored menswear black tuxedo or well-worn flare-leg jeans and high heels. What you don't want to do is wear it with something skimpy or slinky… that look is way too tarty! Before you buy anything (no matter how in love with it that you think you are) it's always best to have something at home that you can wear it

Lose Weight to Get a Boyfriend

Lose Weight to Get a Boyfriend I want to look pretty but I'm kind of fat. Can you help me go on a diet and look very pretty and get a boyfriend? Please help me. (Los Angeles, CA) I'm sorry to tell you that one's weight should not have any effect on whether or not you have a boyfriend. A kind, loving, and caring man (as opposed to a pinhead playboy) is going to fall for your total being and not your dress size. There are plenty of pretty plus size women who lead vital and fulfilling lives, like the large size supermodel, Emme (pictured right) who has her own clothing line. If you feel you want to lose weight,

Red Belt, But What Shoes And A Purse

Help needed! I found a great red belt to wear with my jeans. My dilemma though is this...what shoes do I wear? I always thought your belt and should match your shoes and purse...does this mean I have to buy some red shoes???? If so, besides a boot, what type of shoe would work? (San Diego, CA) Yaaaaaawn! Sweetness, there is nothing more boring than fashion gone overly literal. Jeans are casual, don't get so serious with them. Red, or any other vivid color, should be used as an accent. Excessively matching a bold color looks ridiculous. Scratch the matchy-matchy by starting to think out of the fashion box. Build personal style that's more spontaneous and ultimately more interesting.

Matching Leathers

How to match leathers for a polished chic look I have chocolate brown leather pants that I would like to wear out in the evening. Is a light brown suede, outdoorsy jacket tacky to wear with these pants? (Kettering, OH) The most important thing about coordinating leather and suede is that the color, weight, and finish blend. For a fairly regular casual night out, you can probably fake them together by pulling in another soft texture, like a cashmere turtleneck . If the occasion is more formal, you may want to add a dressier wool jacket. Ruff hewn leather is very modern, don't match a well-worn finish with something totally done like pearlized, glazed, or patent leather… keep finishes like

Wrinkle Repair, the smooth way to look great! Push that iron to the back of the closet. Forget about the clothing steamer leaking all over everything. Looking crispy just got easier. Spritz and tug wrinkles away with Downy Wrinkle Releaser! It's genius in a pump bottle… now, if it would only do the same for the furrows between our brows. Available at mass merchandisers, drug and food chains.

Taste The Hamptons-Recipe to take a bite out of style from The Barefoot Contessa. You've read about every bold face gossip column name attending some Hamptons soiree or polo match. Maybe you've spotted a celeb buying tomatoes at a vegetable stand. You may have even heard tales about over crowded house shares as social-searching singles make their way into the Hamptons scene amidst cries of, "I dated him first" or "Why are you wearing my new Gucci bikini". Maybe you are just the serene type who spends weekends tooling around the mulch menu at the gardening store. If you are from New York, you've most probably, been there, done that, or live for the Long Island beach scene. In any

Glaceau Vitamin Water Move over Evian, there's something new in designer water. Ka-lunk!!! That's the sound of the server's jaw careening to the floor after being informed that tap water would be just fine. Call me kooky, but sometimes I'm simply not in the mood for H2O from The Water List. Then other times, I crave the bottled pleasure. Now, you can up the cool factor a notch. Energy Brands Glaceau Vitamin Water rehydrates, quenches your thirst, and refuels with vitamins all at the same time, plus it's kind of groovy colored. Love the kiwi-strawberry, vitamin A and Ginkgo "Focus," it's guaranteed to help you Focus On Style. Okay, so that's wishful thinking, but it sure tastes great! Glaceau Vitamin

the New Cute Car What could possibly make the PT Cruiser or the new Beetle seem so five miles ago in trendy retro car cuteness? The Mini Cooper! You'd have to be a fortuneteller with a cloudy crystal ball a bad case of turbantightis not to see this trend coming. What could possibly make the PT Cruiser or the new Beetle seem so five miles ago in trendy retro car cuteness? The MINI COOPER! As soon as I saw a preview of this cutie pie, I knew that the Cooper would be the next best rage on the road. It's incredibly modern in a classic black and white film kind of way. It's red is reminiscent of a perfect pedicure.

The Harness Motorcycle Boot is Back I don't care what efficiency "experts" say. I just paid a visit to a demonstration initiated by a "professional organizer'' to see if she has some brilliant secrets about realistically storing a collection of boots. Her solution: Toss out what you haven't worn in a year. I guess that's why she looked like she couldn't give a who-ha about style! Well, if I had tossed my old faithful harness-strap motorcycle boots years ago, I'd be kicking myself in the proverbial fashion can right now. The chunky harness boot is back in a big way. Get one pronto or dig out the pair that you used to wear with that Chanel tweed jacket. What goes

Forget the Dancing Elephants…

Dralion Circus costumes can be gorgeous, just look at Cirque du Soleil's Dralion. Yeah, yeah, I know you think a circus can't be a style thing, but that's just not true. Dralion,Cirque du Soleil's newest production currently touring North America, and sponsored in part by Swarovski crystal, is just one of the most fabulous visual spectacles around. Of course, you knew that all Cirque du Soleil's are gorgeous, didn't you? In fact, the NYC opening night crowd at Dralion was pretty chi-chi too. There were more babes teetering in their Jimmy Choo stilettos to keep the storyline of Sex and the City going ad infinitum. To heck, with dancing elephants… I'll take the cinema-fantastique costumes, Chinese acrobats, and the techno-tribal

DJ Cool Saved My Life…

Don't have to be a DJ, just look like one The DJ Carrying Case-- in nothing more of-the-moment than camouflage print-- from Triple Five Soul ups your hip-o-meter tenfold. It's cooler than a messenger bag and may even inspire you to tune your ear a bit. What could possibly be cooler than being a DJ? The hottest babes-or guys-knocking at your booth. Mixing music that rocks their world. Have them spinning "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" over their bagel and latte. Yet, your musical inclinations are sooo dismal that you thought Johnny Rotten was a toilet gone bad. What to do? Just look like one! The DJ Carrying Case-- in nothing more of-the-moment than camouflage print-- from Triple

Halt The Airborne Tampon…

Stylish holders for feminine hygiene products Halt The Airborne Tampon! Cool tampon cases and maxi pad cases. Occasionally, there's the why didn't I come up with it idea. How many times have you opened up your purse only to find that the tampon stashed at the bottom of your bag has now catapulted itself into full view like a Jack-In-The-Box gone mad? Bashfuls has cured the airborne feminine care product dilemma with a line of adorable tampon and maxipad holders… just love the denim ones! Oooh, Bashfuls are soo trendy, that Tyra Banks and Daisy Fuentes tote them. http://www.bashfuls.com310-573-1140

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Correct Season to Wear White… Is it ok to wear white after Labor Day?

Accessorizing a Corset Top

Lose Weight to Get a Boyfriend

Red Belt, But What Shoes And A Purse

Matching Leathers

Wrinkle Repair

Taste The Hamptons

Designer Water: Take 2

Vroom, Vroom…

De-clutter This!…

Forget the Dancing Elephants…

DJ Cool Saved My Life…

Halt The Airborne Tampon…

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