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Winter fashions can mean big investments. Slick leather jackets, cozy cashmere scarves and sleek tall boots aren’t like the bikini you bunch up and toss in the drawer at the end of the summer.
It is possible to talk people on television and radio and those who write or shoot photos for the newspaper to step out of their comfort zone. In this case it was to be a fashion model.
We all have at least one. That one product you tout, saying, “I can’t live without it.”
American women probably all owe designer Diane von Furstenberg a thank-you note. After all, she liberated them from boxy suits in the 1970s with her iconic wrap dress, makes it possible for them to wear prints without looking like sofas, and helps vault young designers into the public eye as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).
Hannah Hunsinger is getting married in — you guessed it — June. She has a lot of the details already ironed out, including her preference for the presence of peacock feathers. Plans are to put them in her bridesmaids’ hair and in their bouquets.
After the sparkle and bright colors of the holidays, it’s refreshing to shift into neutral. A wide range of white and beige shades offer an elegant look regardless of the garment.
All right, you guys. It’s a new year and the perfect time to get your fashion act together. If that sounds too sissy, let’s say, “it’s new and improved wardrobe time.”
In the spring of 1939, Coco Chanel said this about lace: “I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.”
When the call went out for readers who consider themselves bargain shoppers to come up with a great outfit for New Year’s Eve, the catch was this: You couldn’t spend more than $20.12 for the outfit you’ll wear to ring in 2012.
Getting ready for New Year’s Eve is no time to hold back. We’ve all been sweating the economy, but let’s be optimistic and believe that 2012 is bound to bring good things.
Ready or not, you’re in the season when you’re supposed to razzle dazzle fellow partygoers who are taking part in the holiday social whirl. If you’ve put off wearing the sparkle, the wait is over.
The most wonderful time of the year is no time for a bad hair day or, more important, a bad hair night. No, ho ho.
We’ve all seen the photos of what we’ll supposedly be wearing in the distant future.
Red. It’s the color that some people don’t wear except during the holidays. If you’re among them, now is the time!
Remember the ’80s? It was sometimes totally grody to the max, but we also were doing the truffle shuffle, were getting physical and just wanted to have fun.
Just after we’ve turned our clocks back, we’re finding out what will be arriving in stores next spring. Buyers and fashion writers were at the Dallas Market Center the end of October checking out the trends by visiting showrooms, watching fashion shows and attending seminars.
Nathanial Timm met his girlfriend at Anime Festival Wichita. She also liked Victorian-era clothing. That meant Steampunk.
Any woman remotely interested in fashion could rattle off a laundry list of wardrobe classics: the LBD, the crisp white cotton shirt, the trench coat.
If you like sweaters, this is going to be a great fall and winter. Your choices range from body-skimming tunic-lengths to styles so voluminous they resemble ponchos.
What do women want? That's a question for the ages. Let a roomful of psychologists figure it out.
