Plaid – itudes- Wear Plaids with Attitude

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Plaid-itudes Plaids are back and in a big way.  Can you, should you or will you wear them?  You can if you wear them with attitude…..and follow a few rules about mixing patterns.     Plaids and Pattern Mixing Don’t get carried away when a new trend comes on the market.  Go back to the [...]

Boots and Booties – Top Fall Trends 2011

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Boots to Booties – Fall Trends If you are not wearing boots or booties this fall season, you’re not ‘on trend’……Period! It doesn’t matter if you are wearing short skirts (just above the knee), leggings, skinny jeans, long prairie skirts, slacks or shorts…Yes, shorts, there is a boot or bootie that works and now is [...]

Top Fall Trends-Pleats-Plaids-Pretty-Prints

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TOP FALL TRENDS Fall trends are beginning to flood the market-pleats, plaids and pretty prints are just what I predicted months ago! In preparation for the upcoming Fall Trends Webinar, I was going back and looking at some old data I pulled.  Fun fur topped the list.  That was 2009. In 2009, we began to [...]

Style Trends What’s Up Doc? Waistlines

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Style Trends-Down with the Hem and Up Goes the Waist!  Style trends alert!  It’s all about what’s down is up and what’s up is down! January of last year launched a new decade.  With the start of a new decade the style trends for hemlines and waistlines began a significant shift.  Hemlines have been edging [...]

Accessory Trends – Must Haves for Fall 2011

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Accessory Trends for Fall Accessory Trends will NOT be taking a back seat to fashion this fall!  I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks talking about fashion trends.  How will you be adjusting your wardrobe for Fall 2011? There are great new emerging trends in every way conceivable.  New trends in [...]

Versatility- A Must Have for a Perfect Wardrobe

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One of the biggest challenges women face with their wardrobe is mix and match. Versatility is the key to mix and match.  Buying pieces that will serve multiple purposes for all of your lifestyle events can be challenging but it is learn-able! It’s “lifestyle” dressing. Creating e a wardrobe that works for everyday, date night [...]

How to Wear Polka Dots – Connecting the Dots for Fall

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Polka dots are a big trend for Fall.  Yes, it can be kind of scary to wear dots and sometimes when you put them on you might feel like a clown. I remember several years ago, I purchased a beautiful navy dress with white polka dots. It totally consumed me-it’s not longer an item in [...]

On the Wedge of Fall

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Fall Shoes Trends The  current drought across much of the United States probably is making you yearn for fall weather…Perhaps “thinking” about it will give you some relief from the sweltering heat?? I hope so because we are indeed on the edge of fall and with that, trends are starting to come out in magazines [...]

Fall Trends Down with Hemlines Up with Prices

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Are you ready for your hemlines to go down? Arms too are getting covered again. Michelle Obama can stop exercising her biceps so much and many middle age women are yelling “hooray”! Fall trends show it’s happening. While hemlines are going down though, the price of goods to make your clothes is rising sharply.  It [...]

December Colors

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December is a month of holidays.  When you look outside there is very little “color” to be found with the exception of evergreen and holly bushes.  So it would stand to reason that the color for December would be grounded in green. Actually the color for the month of December from Pantone’s Colorstrology Book is [...]