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4 Tips for packing for winter travel
For the past month I have left the increasingly hot conditions of my home in Australia for the colder European climates and I have learned some essential tips for packing for winter travel that I have made my travels more stress free. Because let’s face it as much as we may love our clothes we…
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Past Style Rules that should stay
Don’t wear white to a wedding This one should speak for itself, while it is respectful to dress up for a wedding it’s important to remember that when you’re a guest at a wedding it’s not about you. Wearing white can take away the bride’s thunder, by all means, dress up but do it in…
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11 Stylish Portraits from 1900-1920
This era saw the beginnings of modern fashion as we know it. Queen Victoria’s death in 1901 brought in a new era that was quickly tested by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. This was also the era of the Woman’s Suffrage movement leading to the beginning of the 20th-century era of…
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How Fashion Can Change the World
Fashion has the power to change the world and the style icons who set those fashions have sometimes been the revolutionary people that have remained iconic in our collective cultural memory. From the revolutionary fashionistas whose approach to style became a significant aspect in shaping the society around them to those in charge who set…
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11 Stylish Portraits from 1800-1850
Now we come to the next installment in this series which started with the 11 Stylish Portraits from the 17th Century. Today we’ll be tackling the most stylish portraits from the first half of the 19th century the period which started with the empire dresses of the Napoleonic period and ended with the corsets and crinolines…
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Ethical Fashion Debate – Are Faux options Acceptable?
Animal Fur has been a common clothing choice for thousands of years. Early humans would use it to keep warm, as such it served a very practical purpose in the days before electricity. It then became a status symbol, rich people throughout the world had furs as a staple in their wardrobes and during the…
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The Problem with Body Shape Labels…
We’ve all heard that the best way to dress is to dress for our body shape, but our body shapes have been defined by random inanimate objects such as hourglasses, pears, and lollipops. While they can be helpful in determining which styles of clothing suit us the best, they don’t necessarily tell us how to…
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