trends

Sunday Coffee: Style Underdog, Pleather, and a Kicka** Manifesto

The Cream This week, Beverly (our fearless Style Underdog), perfectly illustrated: The scrunched socks with booties trend. The 80/20 clothing/skin ratio for work attire. How to look hot-as over age 40, at work, in a knee-length dress. How to simultaneously (and seamlessly) give multiple shouts out to our StyleNation. Rock on, mama. I worship at [...]

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WVW: Skinny Cargos*

Like most fashion addicts, seasonal trends, fabrications, and compilations that are published and pushed by the mags eventually get under my skin. But not all of them, mind you. I’ll take on a trend if it works for me, and I think it’s cool. I still say hell no to harem pants on me. I’ve [...]

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The Trend Conundrum

Fashion trends, as we all know, are highly unpredictable. Some arrive and only stay a season, some show up and embed themselves in our minds and wardrobes forever. Over the years, there have been trends that were universally adopted and others that were universally despised. Before I get into my whole trend tirade, let me [...]

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