Fashion
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5 Ways to Become an Elegant Woman
Elegance may be found in aesthetic alone but it is also the quality of grace in attitude, speech, even the way we move. Elegance spans all earning brackets. While there is elegance unique to the very wealthy that comes with affording the most luxury, there is also elegance with little money and the right taste to pick it out at the thrift shop! I own a wonderful collection of elegant clothes that I bought second hand including this outfit here. Elegance is not a price point as much as your taste. Also it does not cost anything to stand straight, walk smoothly, be courteous and kind which all embody elegance.…
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5 Keys to Feminine Fashion
Ladies, Now that I have made all of the mistakes, and I am safely in my late 30s and looking better for my wisdom gained…I can impart to you the keys to true feminine fashion for any woman. One of the greatest fashion obstacles for women of any age is confusing sexy for feminine. Modern women’s wear is an odd dichotomy of androgynous clothing and skimpy clothing. So, to be more feminine, women sometimes tend to gravitate toward the skimpy clothing. Certain clothing characteristics make something distinctly feminine, not brash, not showy, just feminine. Nurturing your femininity means observing these kinds of features to steer your style to feminine. SLEEVES…
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Nurturing Your Femininity
Femininity is not just for charming vintage decades past. It is not just a phase of little girls. It is not just for the teenager and 20 something who has youthful beauty on her side. Femininity belongs to women. It is timeless. As silver hairs begin to glitter around my face, the late 30s mean age changes things but it does not erase my womanhood. My penchant for princessy style and romantic living has only blossomed. I have years of learning under my belt. Like what shapes look best on me and why. How some skirts make me look like a tubby midget and other skirts make me look like…
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How to Shop for Boots for Your Country Wardrobe
Ladies, If you are a country woman, you know what it is to live closer to God’s green earth. We aren’t teetering around on spikes out here. We are free range women, breathing wide open air into our lungs and hopefully you will join me in praising God to be surrounded by His creation. So, the fact is, we need real boots. Not fashion boots that shred easily on rocks and can’t protect us from uneven ground. We need a comfortable sole and weatherproof options. I keep a few of these boots in my wardrobe and I wear them back into dust. But real boots can take it. So here’s…
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How to Dress Daily for the Home & the Homestead
Ladies, Do you rarely leave your home? Maybe you, like me, love working, resting, and just being at home. Moreso, country women tend to be at home a lot more than someone in town because we space out grocery shopping trips just for the fact that we drive much further to stores. Infrequent outings seem limited to people who wake up to leave the house every day. But if you are a woman who views full days at home as being wonderful instead of having “nowhere to go” or being “stuck at home”, you are in good company. Dressing for the Day at Home There is this misconception in the…
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Fashion Blogger Diary A Lookbook of Boots with Dresses & Skirts
Ladies, When I look back on vintage photographs, there are certain styles that look so classically beautiful they eclipse the worse trends of that era. Take boots with skirts and dresses as one example that I have admired in photographs of women in the 1970s and 1980s. Their boots were femininely shaped with an almond toe (the best toe shape ever invented for women’s shoes) and a conservative heel, then paired with midi length skirts or dresses. This look has been seared into my mind as the most timelessly beautiful way to wear boots. Style is about combinations Like a painting, style is not just one stroke of color or…
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How to Wear Dresses & Skirts in Cold Weather
Ladies, The mornings have had an icy chill, but I head out for my morning walks anyway. I even wear my pretty dresses and skirts all Autumn and winter because of specific clothing choices that are incredibly comfortable. This sky-blue dress that I wore recently is a lightweight fabric (not my preference for cold weather), but it was only the topper over my insulating leggings, thick socks and tall boots. It was snuggly topped with a thick cable knit sweater. But the key to this seemingly simple formula is in the details. “There is no such thing as bad weather just bad clothes.” I have loved this Norwegians saying ever…
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How to Start Wearing Pretty Dresses Daily
Ladies, Modern society has relegated pretty dresses to special occasions. Yet here we are with more beautiful fabrics and styles than ever before and at price points even low-income ladies can afford and so few women enjoy it. Such was the case for me when we had very little to spend and I found a dusty little thrift shop with $1 dresses on sale days. Yes, just $1. It was probably one of the closest experiences I have had to heaven on earth. I stocked up. It was around this time in my life that I had felt very drawn to dresses and had realized that I never owned anything…
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How to Dress “French Country” Fashion
Ladies, French Country decor is laid back beauty of expensive toile curtains combined with rustic dirty wood floors. A little rustic and a little polish. Fashion is no different. You can combine the practical and comfortable with the pretty. I like pairing my dusty cowgirl boots with my flowy floral dresses. The French use nice things daily. They do not save their nice things for special occasions only. All clothes will get ruined eventually, just wear your nice things. I think it’s sad to make nice things occasional. It is also sad that a simple day dress has been viewed as fancy in modern culture. Women use to wear pretty…
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Fall Fashion Essentials for the Country Woman Wardrobe
Ladies, if you live in the country, I hope this helps you create a wardrobe specifically suited to your rural lifestyle. Living in the country as a girl who enjoys fashion, I notice how different my fashion essentials are for country living than the typical touted “fashion essentials”! Buy the right kind of boots My cowgirl boots and my rain boots are my daily boot at home on the property. But for a city woman, her daily boot is typically a heeled boot made out of a delicate suede, soft leather or even worse, fake leather (it falls apart all too easily). These kinds of “city boots “do not withstand…
