One New Top – 10 Holiday Outfits

Ready for a holiday wardrobe refresh, but don’t want to spend a lot on fancy new duds that you know you won’t wear all that often? See how this single sleeveless turtleneck in a blackened silver metallic — $8 at my favorite resale shop — let me create 10 new outfits, plenty for all my…

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Mix & Match Combos for Women with “Transitioning” Hair Colors

The easiest way to spot mix/match combinations in your closet is to start with a multi-color element that includes your hair color. For brunette women with an increasing proportion of “unpigmented” strands,  that means some shade of lighter or darker shade of Taupe. Here are some ideas to get you started, whether you’re thinking of…

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Mix & Match Roadmaps for Silver-Haired Women

The easiest way to spot mix/match combinations in your closet is to start with a multi-color element that includes your hair color. For silver-haired women that means some shade of lighter or darker gray. Here are some ideas to get you started, whether you’re thinking of yourself or of someone on your holiday gift list…

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Outfit “Roadmaps” for Blondes

The easiest way to spot mix/match combinations in your closet is to start with a multi-color element that includes your hair color. For blondes that means some shade of camel or caramel. Here are some ideas to get you started, whether you’re thinking of yourself or of someone on your holiday gift list …

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Traveling in (Casual) Style

Mr Wonderful and I had to cancel our plans for a South Dakota road trip due to his 100-year-old dad’s health issues.  (He’s doing better – thanks for asking.) But the planning forced me to put more thought than usual into my summer-casual outfit pairings.  I was inspired by CJ – one of our Community…

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Scarf Savvy for Summer

Kate took me up on my offer – within our LOOKING GOOD Together Community – to provide members with personalized scarf recommendations.  While we’re all suffering thru these sweltering temps, she only wanted lightweght, natural fiber suggestions.  She graciously agreed to give you all a look at what we found:

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More Print Mixing Thoughts

My long-time friend and colleague Ann Gosch — she headed the education department at Bernina back when I had the same role at Baby Lock — shared a couple of her print-mix projets that I think you’ll enjoy seeing …

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Closet Conumdrum

Starting the new year, we’ve focused in the LOOKING GOOD online community on organizing the contents of our closets.  Here are a few of the tips we’ve been discussing.

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Perfecting the Art of Print Mixing

Mixed prints – within an outfit or within a single garment – are showing up a lot a we start to thing about Spring wardrobes.  But how can you adopt the trend without looking like a clown?  Here are some tips …

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Making Holiday Outfits from Your Current Clothes

Wow – holiday parties and events – IN PERSON – many for the first time in ages!  Whether it’s the office party, a neighborhood open house, family gathering or church events, won’t it feel good to get dolled up?  What fun!!  And what to wear?? Here are some quick tips for adding festive touches to…

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