15 Years

FocusOnStyle.com celebrates 15 Years Online! This year marks the 15th anniversary of FocusOnStyle.com online! Each Saturday, we will revisit one of favorite & most popular stylist advice posts through the years from our #fashionarchives.

Discount Designer Style Tips- Life secrets for looking great on the cheap(er)

Honestly, this is one of my favorite posts...  Some kid's went to summer camp, I went shopping at discount stores (ok, some trips too)!  I consider myself lucky to have had a mother who from a very early age instilled in me the virtues of looking the best you can with any budget and who taught me how to seek out the best deals. I never (like to) pay full price for anything if there is a saving alternative! For this week's continuing reprise of some of my greatest evergreen material leading up to the 15th anniversary year of FocusOnStyle online, I want to spend this week’s review looking back at how you can get the best deals on great fashion.  Don't forget to tell

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How to Look Ageless OR 9 Geezer Magnets That Read Old and Why to Avoid Them

My parents visting a cousin's house back when they were still engaged.
It's my birthday again (better to have them then not too), and I still feel the same way. Although, I conveniently can't remember which birthday it is. Shhh, don't tell me, sometimes ignorance is bliss. Enjoy this reprise of some solid advice to keep that youthful spirit! --S.H. It's my birthday today, woot, woot for me!  You think how to look ageless doesn't cross my mind? I've gotta admit that when I think of the numeric add up for my age I feel a little, ah, "removed" from it. Of course, I remember the year that I was born but I try not to dwell on the actual age "number" as it becomes more of a burden to live up

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Mommy Chic: Easy style stay at home mom clothes- YES, you can wear yoga pants!

Stay at home mom
Ok, not too old  for one of our 15th anniversary online posts, but rather important in honor of Mother's  Day. Yes, ladies you can look pulled together when you have a super casual lifestyle. have read with this week's Mommy Chic post. -S.H. What to wear when all the moms are fashion plates. Let's discover stay at home mom clothes for a mom who is is changing schools and feels the need to compete with the new moms in town. I hope you don't judge me on this but I feel like I'm being judged and need wardrobe help on my stay at home mom clothes. I'm a stay at home mom and really love that. We've relocated and my daughter

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What to wear when you work from home AND a peek at my office. Here’s some stylist advice

This week's look back post to celebrate the 15th anniversary of FocusOnStyle online, tackles the conundrum I face every day and you may too if you are an entrepreneur... what to wear when you work from home. Ya know, how to pull yourself together when no on really sees you and you still need to feel both great about yourself and comfy. Besides, get it together in a flash for when you need to look professional on a Skype or a fast meeting. I've been deep with my team working on the bountiful (I over delivered 10x) assets for the C'est Chic Crash Course (you've signed up to join me, right?) and have to admit that I've been spending a lot of

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Can We Talk Prescription Designer Sunglasses a la Joan Rivers and LensCrafters

Sharon Haver and Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers has made me laugh since I was old enough to turn on a TV.   A true original who told it like it was. This week's 15th Anniversary of FocusOnStyle post look back honors the late, great icon who was still in her prime at 81. --S.H. Seeing is believing when it comes to glammed up prescription sunnies... Things happen when you are old enough to have grown up laughing along with comedic genius Joan Rivers on TV. One day, you start to need glasses, if only to read Heidi Abromowitz's little black book (purportedly the size of an encyclopedia). Secret: These are actually prescription sunglasses! LensCrafters had a sunnies soiree last month-- with special guest Joan Rivers,

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How to Clean Out Your Closet and the Top 20 Clothes to Let Go Of

Dearest readers: As we wrap up our week of Style Motivation to help you look your best at ALL times and look through our archives to bring you smart ideas as we continue to celebrate our 15th anniversary comes a timeless lesson on what to keep, store and let go of. The end of the season is near, get ready to clear out your closet! With a new season ahead comes the perfect time to reorganize, reconsider and purge your wardrobe to avoid the pitfalls of inappropriate age dressing and all that can go wrong when one tends to hold on to too much from the past. That's not to say one must start fresh each season as its near

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Fashion Week Is Coming (Again), so why should you care about the runway?

Are we looking at fashion Week through rose colored glasses?
This week's FocusOnStyle's 15th anniversary online post tackles a question that we so often ask ourselves. In our busy lives and overstuffed budgets, what the heck does the fashion shown on the runway have to do with our everyday life? Well, read on to see how... I'm working on the production of my C'est Chic Crash Course  and have to say that I am very proud and pleased with the way it's shaping up... I know it will impact the way you see style in your life, without spending a fortune on a new wardrobe! Ok, I get it. You're busy. Really busy. Maybe even juggling a family, responsibilities, a wacky work load, and beau coup bills. So why should you

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When you ask how to be beautiful, it’s more that beauty is how YOU see yourself

Beauty is how you see yourself
Dearest Readers:  For this week's FocusOnStyle.com's 15 year online anniversary online post, I want to go even further back to when Focus on Style was my weekly newspaper column. This style motivation post from 1996 is still vital today. Either by a reader email or asked in one of my courses or one on one stylist sessions, so many of us question how to be beautiful in hopes of some secret elixir to instantly transform ourselves. But the truth is that beauty is how we see ourselves... that's the self-confidence that honestly makes us shine and what I try to convey with all my style advice. Enjoy this week's throwback post! - S.H Dear Sharon: I feel invisible, yet people tell me I am attractive. I just don't look the

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How to wear anything: Top 5 style maxims to tweak your chic

This week's 15th anniversary post looks at timeless ways to wear anything... including the lead photo of the late great fashion raconteur Anna Piaggi.  Discover your inner Carrie, if you must. How to wear anything with aplomb? Follow the Top 5 Style Maxims. Did you ever notice how some women can barely pull off wearing a pair of jeans and a T-shirt without looking like they are about to clean out the garage? While there are others who are the masters of the craziest, most way out combination that always seems to work on them? From Sarah Jessica Parker's the character Carrie in “Sex and the City,” pictured below,  to the late fashion impresario Anna Piaggi, pictured above, the Italian

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Home Style Week! Color Chic- How To Add Color To Your Life- Home, Fashion, and Beauty Tips

Make this a double header! This week's summer spotlight is all about home style, and let's take a look at this episode of FocusOnStyle Talk Radio to celebrate FoS's 15th Anniversary online. Enjoy! Sharon & Brad open up their homes and share style tips to make color work in your life in a very chic way From runway to your home... adding bold moves of color can be the perfect dramatic change to take you from drab to fab! Before you paint your home, listen to this show... The right colors are beautiful but so many of us are color challenged and fear color so much that they live a drab existence or overload on the wrong color that cheapens

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French Chic at a Certain Age: Man-Tailored Jackets in the way Ines de la Fressange works them

Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012 - Chanel
Oh la la... I'm shooting another segment for the C'es Chic Crash Course and so much is going on here on FoS. It's a triple threat for this week's Summer Spotlight of Ageless Style + highlights  from FocusOnStyle's Best of 15th Anniversary online, PLUS, Day Three of the three-part FoS series Ageless, Age-Appropriate French Chic At A Certain Age. Master this style: How to pull off classic man-tailored  jacket like Ines de la Fressange's tuxedo and school boy looks Wearing a jacket can get a bit tricky. If you're busty, you end up looking boxy (wear it open). If the jacket is too conservative, you just added 10 years to your appearance and, worse, the aura of being inflexible and boring (avoid anything

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Makeover Etiquette- What is expected at a cosmetic counter makeover

It's so easy to get intimidated into buying everything at a cosmetic counter makeover, but you don't want to me a mooch and leave empty-handed either. In this week's look at FocusOnStyle's 15 anniversary online, lets check out an oldie but goodie from 2002 about what is expected at a cosmetics counter makeover. -S.H. Buy, try, or just say good-bye... the graceful guide to getting gorgeous at the cosmetics counter Makeup Artist Tips What to Expect From Your Cosmetic Counter Makeover Dear Sharon: I am scheduled for a makeover at an Estee Lauder counter in a department store in a few days. The only other time I've had a "professional" makeover was in a Body Shop, when I was 16. I'm

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How To Find Your Style…

The timeless man-tailored elegance from Ralph Lauren
For this week's 15th Anniversary online post, let's look back at this double-header style motivation post on FocusOnStyle from 1999 on how to find your style. If chic style is what you're after, I can help you redifine what chic is for you in my C'est Chic Crash Course. I hope you'll join me. How to find your style can be perplexing. But not if you simplify what you need to know to look great… Two-Up For Something New: Stymied For Style and Fashion Puzzle [dropcap]D[/dropcap]ear Sharon: I've just switched careers and aside from the obvious more casual dress code, I am having some daily doldrums regarding my appearance. Everything from makeup (or the lack thereof) to the horrific amount

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