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National Underwear Day: What you need to know about your bra
National Underwear Day National Underwear Day, since 2003, has been about celebrating how exactly right our bodies are. The intent is to help women and men embrace their body image. Every body is beautiful, and National Underwear Day is for celebrating this fact. In an effort to help you feel beautiful in your underwear, we asked…
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Summer Work Wear: My own inspiration
My own personal office dress code is shirt-and-tie equivalent. My boss wears a button down shirt, dress pants and a tie to the office every day. Occasionally his attire includes a suit jacket. So where does that leave me? Dressy separates (in multiple layers) with no sandal-style shoes, essentially. Here’s my go-tos for summer work wear.…
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5 Things I Learned as a Fitness Pro That Helped Me Become a Better Personal Stylist
I recently retired as a Fit 4 Two® Pre and Postnatal Fitness Trainer. For just over a decade, I had the pleasure of walking with women on their motherhood journey. It was a blast celebrating, as well as commiserating, about pregnancy and the early years of parenting. And while it was a rewarding career,…
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Summer Office Wear: Some inspiration
It can be a difficult balance to manage the heat of the summer sun while maintaining a professional appearance at the office. Given that many of us struggle daily to figure out what to wear, summer temperatures can certainly increase your closet frustration. You need to avoid excessive sweating on your commute to work, and…
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Self-Care and The Joy of Sabai Thai Spa
What is Self-Care Anyway? The World Health Organization defines self-care as the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote, maintain health, prevent disease and to cope with illness with or without the support of a health care provider. Self-care encompasses several issues including hygiene, nutrition, lifestyle, environmental and socio-economic factors. Promotion of self-care is…
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Up In Arms About Your Arms? – Simple and Timely Tips to Beat the Heat in Style
We’ve all got our hangups. Some of us don’t want our knees on display. Others want to camouflage their tummy. And a great number of us are afraid to reveal our arms. We often perceive them as too jiggly, saggy or big. We think we’re too old or too fat and our arms are unacceptable.…
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The Evening Bag: How to make your party clothes better
Dress For a Party Picture this: you’re wearing your party outfit, your shoes are just right, you’ve got a glass in one hand and an hors d’oeuvre in the other. At the same time, over your shoulder is your every-day bag, that one that holds your life. You can solve all of your life’s problems…
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The Stylish Mom’s ABC’s – Easy Tips to Dump the Frump
The Stylish Mom’s ABC’s The majority of our clients are mothers, and 100% of them tell us they want to stop feeling frumpy. For many moms, comfort, ease, what’s clean, (and can I breastfeed in this?) become the main considerations when putting an outfit together. It’s easy to get stuck in a style rut when your wardrobe consists…
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A Pencil Skirt With Flats? What You Need to Know to Make it Work
A pencil skirt is one of those classic closet items that is a wardrobe work horse. It dresses up for corporate settings, and dresses down for weekend daytime events. Pencil skirts have this mystical power to look amazing on all body shapes. They add curves to straight shapes and graciously slide over hips on curvaceous…
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Professional Women – Don’t Waste Your Time Focusing on This
This article about Disney’s portrayal of women stoked a fire inside me. From a very early age we are fed these stories of how our beauty (read: f*ckable factor) determines our worth. I mean, look what we’re up against, Ladies! You can have a brilliant mind, be a highly skilled professional, a valiant leader, and STILL…