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Star Jones shares tips for the essential evening shoe

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Star Jones shares tips for the essential evening shoes. What to look for in special occasion shoes What to look for in special occasion shoes Read more shoe tips from Star Jones / Visit our online Shoe Shopping Guides Dear Sharon: I have purchased a conservative, but nice, knee-length black dress with some beading around the neckline for a cocktail party that is not black-tie. Shoes, for me, are the worst thing to buy. I never know what styleto get and the wrong style can make or break an outfit. I have a pair of sandals with a clear acrylic heel, clear plastic across the top and a silver strap that I wore to a Bar Mitzvah years ago with

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The Bug for UGG boots… How to ride the sheepskin uggs boot wave

The Bug for UGG boots… How to ride the sheepskin uggs boot wave Can UGG boots be worn with flared or wide leg jeans? What about UGGs under the jeans, or do they look best worn over skinny or bootleg jeans? Are UGG boots able to be worn in the spring if pared with a short denim skirt and tank or are they snow boots? Tell me more. (Mount Vernon, WA) >> Check out our UGG - SHEEPSKIN SHOPPING GUIDE for stylish boots You summed it up with the word skinny! Unless you are tall and skinny with shapely legs don't even bother to read further-well, read but don't wear. It may have peaked as a hot insider fashionista trend

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Over the Knee Boots… The runway trend that rides high

 I am 5 feet tall and Asian. My husband of 10 years loves to see me wearing boots. He prefers boots that are thigh high or knee high. I am a bit shy. He likes to see me either in tight pants tucked into the boots or wearing a mini skirt to show off the boots. I'm afraid of being misinterpreted for "something else". Is there a solution for this? I love my husband and would like to please him. Also, given my height, is this form of dressing appropriate to make me look taller? Thanks for helping!!! (Gilbert, AZ) The independent feminist in me wants to tell you that when it comes to dress you should please yourself before

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Booty Call The Best Boots To Update Your Wardrobe And How To Wear Them

Classic Cut Dear Sharon: I love calf-high and just below the knee boots. What outfits do these look best with? Can we still tuck in our jeans? Help me out! -- Absolutely Bootabulous (Curtice, OH) Dear Absolutely Bootabulous: What can't you wear with boots this season?!? The right pair of boots is a sure-fire wardrobe picker-upper like no other. Living in fear of what outfit looks best with a boot is dressing without any spirit of personal style. Expand your options- add contrast to flimsy, flirty dresses with a lace-up boot, continue a sleek monochromatic line of a sheath dress with a sculpted heel knee-high boot, or vamp up schoolgirl pleats with a hacked-off booty and great tights.No wardrobe should

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Boots With Bare Legs

Boots With Bare Legs Is it tacky to wear a skirt with boots and no nylons in the Fall? There is about an 1" to an 1 1/2" between the top of the boot and the start of the skirt. The skirt falls just above the knee. Thanks. (Bothell, WA) Boots worn without pantyhose has been enjoying a run as a very hot look, providing you have great legs to bare. Although trendy, I would freeze my petunias off running around with bare legs in the cold. If you must eschew pantyhose, a little bit of a kneesock peeking out above your boot is totally hip right now. But, what's a bit more modern these days is fishnet hose (particularly

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De-clutter This!…

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

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