Tag: Fashion

5 Fashion Ideas to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

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Valentine’s Day is a day when people love to celebrate love and all things romantic. If you want to add an extra touch to your celebration, why not dress the part? There are obvious ways of dressing for Valentine’s Day and there are more subtle ways. I compiled a list of five fashion ideas to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Some make it more obvious you are celebrating Valentine’s Day than others. Yet, I think there is fashion inspiration for everyone! Continue reading “5 Fashion Ideas to Celebrate Valentine’s Day” →

Book Review: Claris The Chicest Mouse in Paris: Holiday Heist by Megan Hess

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Near the end of 2021, I found one of Megan Hess’ Clairs books went on sale on Amazon. It was reduced enough that I felt comfortable purchasing it. The book, called Claris, The Chicest Mouse in Paris Holiday Heist, is a Christmas book about an adventure Clair’s goes on during the holiday season in New York City. It looked super cute and, even though I don’t have children, I really enjoy owning children’s books with beautiful illustrations. Even though I purchased the book in the beginning of the year, I wanted to wait until Blogmas to publish a review post about it. Continue reading “Book Review: Claris The Chicest Mouse in Paris: Holiday Heist by Megan Hess” →

5 Types of Clothing I Love But Don’t Look Good on Me

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Every August, I look for new clothes to wear during the fall and winter. I’m lucky to live in a warm climate, so our fall and winters are mild. Despite this, there have been times when cold snaps happen and I need to drag out my heavy winter clothes. This is why I like to look for new clothes starting in July and August to purchase.

This year, my health has improved a great deal, which means I could find clothes that look good on me. Usually, I purchase clothes with the intention of hiding something on my body that is a health problem. Even though I should be happy about this, inflation and less clothing available in the area where I normally shop had made this a very upsetting time for me to shop for new clothes. Despite this, I still want to search.

While searching for new clothes and outfit inspiration, I realized I love outfits with clothes I cannot wear. Many years have passed since I was diagnosed with my illness. In that time, I forgot many of the outfits I love to look at will never look good on me. It is not because of my health problems. It is because the shape of my body does not look good in these clothes.

Since this a topic I thought about a lot lately, and loved to focus on because it releases my stress from other things that are going on in my life, I decided to write a post about all the types of clothing I love to look at, but really don’t look good on me. Continue reading “5 Types of Clothing I Love But Don’t Look Good on Me” →

Movie Review: The September Issue (2009)

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During the sort-of social media/blogging break I recently took, I fell into a rabbit’s hole of watching movies on YouTube’s movie and TV show channel. I couldn’t go out and watch movies in the movie theater like I wanted to, so watching the channel really helped me feed my need for new movies without needing to leave the house.

Even though YouTube offers movies that can be bought or rented, I prefer the free with ads section. Basically, you can watch the movies and TV shows without paying a fee to watch them. You do need to sit through ads, but I never noticed if they are more annoying or intrusive than watching normal YouTube videos with ads.

After watching many of the movies available for free with ads, I found The September Issue. I watched it many years ago, but I forgot most of the movie. Since it was available to watch, I thought it was the perfect chance to watch it again, but this time for free.

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Book Review: The Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion by Megan Hess

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Earlier this year, I decided to collect some of Megan Hess’ books. The first book I purchased was Illustrated World of Couture, but my second and third was New York: Through the Fashion Eye and The Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion.

The book was purchased at the same time as New York: Through the Fashion Eye. Even though I’m happy to own both books, they, along with other books I ordered, suffered water damage. I’m not sure how that happened because it didn’t rain anywhere near where the tracking said the package went, but it was damaged. It wasn’t damaged enough to force me to return the books, which is why I kept all of them. Still, the water damage can be seen on the top right hand corner of some of the pages. I didn’t take pictures of the damaged pages, but if you, for any reason, are curious about why I didn’t photograph certain pages and use them in this post, that is probably why. Continue reading “Book Review: The Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion by Megan Hess” →

Book Review: The Illustrated World of Couture by Megan Hess

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For the past few weeks, I’ve had a lot of time to read. Because of this, I decided to dedicate the next seven posts to reviewing some of the books I read, reread, or read and recently thought about.

For the first book I’m reviewing, I wanted to start with a fashion book by Megan Hess. Earlier this year, I purchased more books by Megan Hess, including some of her fashion illustration books. The first one I purchased is The Illustrated World of Couture. I love her illustrations of couture clothing and shows, so I though it would be a book I would really enjoy reading and owning.

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Book Review: It’s All About the Dress by Randy Fenoli

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It’s June, the traditional month to get married. Here in Arizona, people do get married in June, but the weddings are usually smaller, budget friendly, and/or are held early in the morning or at night. The reason why weddings are different than weddings held in Spring, Fall, and Winter seasons is because of the hot temperatures. June is the hottest month of the year, so it’s not easy to have a wedding. Despite this, I still associate June as a month for weddings.

I own books about how to make formal dresses, including wedding dresses. Recently, while dusting my books, I remembered one of my favorite non sewing books in my collection. The book, It’s All About The Dress, is written by Randy Fenoli. Randy Fenoli is best known for staring in the TLC show Say Yes to the Dress. Randy, a fashion designer, wrote a book about everything a woman needs to know about buying a wedding dress.

The book was released in 2011 and I purchased it at that time brand new. Since then I tried to take care of it, even though I used it often as a base reference for fabrics, shapes of dresses, and other important things people will need to know not only for bridal dresses, but for formal dresses as well. Even though the book isn’t as widely available like it used to be, I still wanted to write a review about it in case anyone is curious about the book themselves. Continue reading “Book Review: It’s All About the Dress by Randy Fenoli” →

Dillard’s Prom Dresses In Store Photographs 2022

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Well, this is the last post featuring the prom dresses I took pictures of during a shopping trip to the mall. The mall I went to had three stores that sold dresses that are designated prom dresses. They include JcPenny’s and Macy’s. The third and final store was Dillards.

Back when I was a teenager, Dillards was always the store to go to if you wanted a prom dress. The dresses would always look pretty and have the most unique styles and designs. This year, I found many prom dresses available in a wide variety of colors. (It helped that I looked in early March) Even though there are many dresses, and I took many photographs of them for friends of mine that have daughters going to prom this year, I didn’t want to overload this post with photographs of dresses. Still, there are a lot of photographs in this post. So, here is the last in store photograph prom dress post for 2022! Continue reading “Dillard’s Prom Dresses In Store Photographs 2022” →

Macy’s Prom Dress In Store Photographs 2022

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After browsing JcPenny’s prom dress section, I went to Macy’s. At the mall I went to (and was shopping at that day), Macy’s, JcPenny, and Dillard’s department stores are located in the same mall. It’s just a matter of walking around the mall to get from store to store. After I arrived at Macy’s, I had a little trouble trying to find the prom dresses. The Junior’s section is where they used to be located, but this year they were moved to the women’s section.

This year’s selection of dresses is far larger than in previous years. I was surprised by the amount of dresses available for sale this year. I think the store wanted to stock more dresses this year because of the fact that this year is the first year since the start of the pandemic when people are allowed to be in close proximity with each other. Also, many schools are allowing prom to take place in the same way it did prior to the pandemic.

I’m very happy to see the dresses available for sale and took many photographs of the dresses. I did this for my friends and their children, but I wanted to share some of the photographs I took of the dresses available for sale. Continue reading “Macy’s Prom Dress In Store Photographs 2022” →

JcPenny’s Prom Dress In Store Photographs 2022

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Prom season is back! This year’s prom season is an exciting one for me because a handful of my friends have children old enough to go to prom! Because of this, when I did my annual prom dress window shopping, I tried to keep an eye out for anything my friends and their children would like. Of course, I took photographs of the dresses for posts and just in case any of my friends want to see the collections available in stores.

One of the stores I wanted to look at was JcPenny’s. I wanted to see what kind of selection they have in store. I didn’t know if they would have many dresses available, but it does vary depending on the store. The store I went to didn’t have as much as I hoped, but the dresses that were available are very pretty. Still, I’m very happy with kind of dresses available at the store. Continue reading “JcPenny’s Prom Dress In Store Photographs 2022” →