FASHION
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2 Summer to Fall Transitional Outfits: Classics & Trends Feminine Style
Ladies, Here are two look-like-autumn-when-it-feels-like-summer outfits. Even better, these pieces are absolute classics and on trend as well in some ways. I need clothing to work in a very practical sense as this is just the reality of life when you are cleaning, cooking, gardening and doing home projects. I enjoy considering the shifts in fashion, but I filter out trends a lot because at some point you realize that fashion trends can lead you away from styles that look timelessly beautiful on you. Sometimes my long-worn fashion favorites come back into style. Fashion is fun, unless it becomes a chasing after the wind. Trends change too often for many…
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How to Design a Mediterranean Country Summer Home: Outdoor Dining, Flowers, & Fashion
Welcome to my summer home in the countryside Ladies, Summer always makes me think of the Mediterranean. So aside from never-ending laundry from sweating through our clothes in one day, I design a summer home reminiscent of this look and feeling of being among the rolling hills of the French and Italian countryside and those coastlines. My vision of this retreat has not yet been fully done but I continually pull from this idea to create the feel wherever it is I live at the moment. The Mediterranean feel, look, and lifestyle has been my favorite template to design my home for summer. Vacation Perspective One thing that stands out…
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What to Wear for Gardening in the Summer
Country women & gardeners have style essentials too Ladies, have you ever noticed how fashion magazines assume we all live in the city and work in offices? Their recommendations never seem to take into account the one who spends her days outdoors, among dirt, plants, animals, even children, working for her own family or a paid job that is grittier. What does a woman wear for her day working at home, working outdoors, surrounded by life, sticky hands, dirty paws, dough flinging off her beaters, flour in her hair, and insects buzzing all around her? I don’t think the fashion industry touted white button-down blouse fits anywhere into this kind…
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My Classy & Feminine Style Makeover : Before & After
It’s easy to upscale daily style! Ladies, I write a lot of articles encouraging us to upscale our daily style because our current culture is so lax, to the point of championing slobbish habits. It feels refreshing to be put together! It is even polite to be put together! It even changes the tone of a home to be put together! No, the outside is not everything but it is something! It does have an effect on us and others and it does convey a message. What are you conveying? There were years of my life that I dressed almost exclusively in leggings with spandex tops, or skinny jeans with…
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This Question Will Change the Way You Dress
Would you buy this right now? This is the one question that will change whether you think what you wear is good quality, stylish, or even flattering on you. When you go to reach for that top and those pants again, as your day after day uniform, hold up those items and look at the state of them. Ask yourself if you were at a shop and saw those items right now, would you reach out and pull them from the rack to admire them? Would they catch your eye? Would you pay money to purchase them right now? Would you even think they looked good? Are there loose seams…
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Cold Weather Wardrobe : SWEATERS Identify Quality Fabric & Proper Laundering
This is an acrylic sweater that I purchased on Amazon around $40! This is one of my favorite cozy and put together looks for cold weather. A beautiful cable knit sweater, long enough to wear with fleece lined leggings, fitted enough to move with me as I work and not bag off getting caught on things or dipping into dish water or poo! We wear our clothes for real life ladies so they need to work with us and for us! It is helpful to know about fabrics to choose the ones that work the best and also to know how to care for them. Everything needs the proper care…
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Fall Fashion Country Woman Edition : Shop & Dress like Us
Welcome to my little stylish corner of the countryside. The tractor supply clothing section does not exactly make me feel like a stylish woman. There is zero snazzy shopping experience to it and yet, I feel so much more comfortable there than any other retail store. I want to smell hay and kibble while I shop for my clothes. And I want to hear adorable peeping chicks, not top 40 blaring. On one of my excursions, I found these leggings. They have deep pockets with invisible zippers. Hefty fabric. Stretchy. Doesn’t show crack when you bend down. These are the things country women need. These are the things ANY women…
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10 Tips to Dress Comfortable in Style
Do you need to change out of your nice clothes as you feel worn down by them throughout the day? It took me decades, but I have my wardrobe down to a science now and there is no stylish outfit that wears me down to want to change out of it! I love dressing for the day. There truly is something refreshing about taking off wrinkly shapeless pajamas and putting on something that has a structure, a design, a refinement that speaks of the grace to carry yourself with throughout the day. But I’m sensitive to uncomfortable clothing. So these are my tips for being well dressed for every day…
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Feminine Classy Fall Wardrobe : Leggings & Short Skirts
A Fashion Formula you must know! Ladies, does cold weather make you feel less feminine and stylish and more hulky and pajama-y? I grew up in cold weather and so take it from me, it can be done in a beautiful way and still keep you warm. I believe great style is meant for our homes and our families, and our God gifted days! Let’s get straight to the point There are two important pieces for a classy, feminine, cold weather wardrobe: fleece lined leggings and short skirts. Now these two items are often villainized as being immodest but they are actually classy feminine items when paired to use the…
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Classic Fall Fashion for Home & Garden : Plaid Wool Skirt, Leggings & Boots
The home and garden are workplaces as much as places of rest. So our wardrobe must be for our work at home, which means looking as put together as feeling comfortable! Every fall I would receive a Lands End catalog in the mailbox and page through every look over and over analyzing my favorite pieces. The classic lines and sturdy fabrics made the approaching Autumn feel even more Autumnal. I deliberated over all of the coats, cardigans and plaid skirts finally circling the few for which I would place an order. Catalogs are a thing of the past now, replaced with scrolling and online ordering complete with delightfully fast shipping.…
