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Why I Use Style To Help With Bucket List Inspiration Ideas
Why I Use Style To Help With Bucket List Inspiration Ideas
by Melinda
Right before New Years Eve is the time where I add to my Bucket List. Now I add to it all year round, but I find it’s this time, BEFORE the year ends, that I set up goals for myself. Here is a great site to use —>> Bucketlist.org to help you track your goals. Being […]
Categories: COLLECTIONS, HOME, OUTFITS • Tags: Bucket List, Style, Travel
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 5 Productive Steps On How To Wake Up Your Wardrobe
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 5 Productive Steps On How To Wake Up Your Wardrobe
by Melinda
Ok admit it. We all have items in our wardrobe that we have been MEANING to fix, whether its a missing button on a shirt or tailoring for pants or a dress. Shoes that need a new sole, or a quick polish. Jewelry that has a broken link, or has lost it’s lustre. Before you know it, you have amassed a collection of unwearables. Here’s how to wake up your wardrobe in a snap.
1. Start with clothes, shoes, jewelry then accessories. Go through every single item – and if it is not ready to wear right now, then take it out of closet. Only what’s inside is ready to go.
2. Divide the categories into piles, and sort by what needs to be fixed right now, and what can wait a week. Or if your eager and budget is not a problem, take them to get fixed all at once. You would be surprised at how many items will be on your list. Just in clothing I had 22!
3. Have a go to Tailor, Shoe repair place, and Jeweler in your arsenal of need to know contacts. Stat. Ask friends, read reviews, and then you will be better equipped at getting items repaired as opposed to letting them linger. Those three musketeers are your most underutilized best friends.
4. Invest in your own small fix it kit. One for shoe repairs/polish. One for sewing/buttons/simple tailoring. One for polishing/maintenance of leather bags. Being able to do your own little tasks like sewing on a button, gives you a new skill, and a new appreciation of your item. Trust me on this one.
5. The item – clothing, shoes, jewelry and accessories ONLY goes back into the wardrobe when it’s in tip-top shop. The best closet to shop in should be your own. Make sure everything is tip-top chic, just like you.
Categories: BLOG, HOME, THE FRIDAY 5, THE FRIDAY FIVE • Tags: Chic, Friday Five, Style, Unique, Wardrobe
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 5 Key Lessons From The Isabel Marant For H&M Collection
THE FRIDAY FIVE – 5 Key Lessons From The Isabel Marant For H&M Collection
by Melinda
Isabel Marant for H&M Collection was my first “capsule collection” experience. When a super talented highly coveted expensive designer teams up with a powerhouse big-box fashion store, it’s a pretty big deal. The “limited edition” capsule collection is created offering the designers styles at a fraction of the namesake price. When I say Limited, believe me, it’s limited! My five key lessons learned from the Isabel Marant For H&M Collection:
1. Plan if you really REALLY want to attend. I thought I did, but arrived 20 minutes after the store opened, which was a big mistake as I had planned to arrive early. In 20 minutes 1/2 the merchandise was gone.
2. If the lookbook is available online, then make a list of what you like and print out the images to show sales assistants if need be. This way you can strategize where to spend your time, as it’s a mad dash to grab it all. Thankfully the collection was available to view online beforehand.
3. Start grabbing. “If you snooze you lose” as the saying goes. Grab multiple sizes as you never know what’s going to fit.
4. Befriend the other shoppers there. TRUST ME. Yes it’s a mad dash, but when you’re in the line for the changing room, it’s a great way to say “hey I’m a size [blank] if you have anything you don’t want in that size could I have it?” This happen 5 times today inline – way to go girl power!
5. If you think you can do it all online, well think again. What happens when too much traffic comes to a site is it crashes. In this case the H&M website crashed – they did have a ticketing queue, but without access to the site whats the point?!
For more of Isabel Marant’s amazing line —>> HERE.
Categories: BLOG, HOME, THE FRIDAY 5, THE FRIDAY FIVE • Tags: Capsule, Chic, Collection, Fashion, Friday Five, H&M, Isabel Marant, Style
Master These 10 Tips To Learn How To Dress Stylish
Master These 10 Tips To Learn How To Dress Stylish
by Melinda
Now it might not be the $64 million question, but it’s still a good question non the less: Can you learn how to dress stylish? Luckily the answer is YES. Sure some people are born with in innate sense of themselves, style and what works for them, where as others have to work a little […]
Categories: ARTICLES, BLOG, HOME • Tags: Chic, Cool, Curate, Master, Style, Stylish
Style Icon Christian Dior Little Dictionary Of Fashion Book $12.62
Style Icon Christian Dior Little Dictionary Of Fashion Book $12.62
by Melinda
For the price of a decent lunch out, Christian Dior reveals the secrets of style in this handbook that covers everything from what to wear to a wedding, and how to tie a scarf, to how to walk with grace. Dior’s expertise ensures every girl will know the three fundamentals of fashion: simplicity, grooming, and good taste. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, this classic is the perfect gift for stylish women, as it’s ideal for every fashion lover. With good quality paper, the pictures in this book are from the 50’s, showing that good taste is classic and never goes out of style. Getting inside the mid of one of fashions great power houses. For less than $13, you can learn a thing or two. 128 Pages. Hardcover. 7.25″ x 5.5″ x 3/4″. Written by Christian Dior. Click HERE to look inside.
Categories: GIFTS, HOUSEHOLD, TECH | GIFTS • Tags: Book, Christian Dior, Fashion, Gift, Style