Add some ZING! What color shoes to wear with dressy neutrals for holiday chic

Stylist Advice-  How can this reader add pizzazz to a neutral holiday dress…

 I am wearing a mocha dress with sequins at Christmas and wondering what color of shoes I should get? Please help!!! (A.W. via Fashion Advice)

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     Standout sequins in muted shades of nude are very of the moment this holiday season. They are a sultry take on subtle and can

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Stylist Advice- What to wear to a black tie optional event with the boss? Try an evening wrap!

If a black tie optional event is mostly business men, can this reader dare to bare with a backless dress?

Dear Sharon:  I would sincerely appreciate your input on an issue I am having with a business black tie optional event.  I am attending a “black tie optional” awards ceremony anddinner for a builders’ association in Western NY (near Canada). My completely platonic date is my boss.

The

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Stylist Advice- Plus Size Layering, Define A Focal Point

Dear Sharon:  I am overweight. Sometimes I wear blouses open with turtlenecks underneath. Can you wear a scarf with the open blouse and turtleneck? (C.M. via Fashion Advice)

  I’m not sure that I love the way you start out your question by announcing that you are overweight. Regardless of your size, we ALL need to make the most of what we’ve got which should come from

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Stylist Advice- How to jazz up a conservative red holiday dress

Dear Sharon: I’m wearing this holiday red shiny Tahari dress with an open portrait neckline to my husband’s company Christmas party.

I am wondering what shoes and jewelry to wear with it. Thanks! (H.E. via Fashion Advice)

 I’ve spent some time pondering  if I should sugarcoat this or not, and I need to be both truthful to you and to my professional style aesthetics.

I have to be honest here, I don’t

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Shape your style with ICONIC MOMENTS. Play with me. On Pinterest.

… you’re kinda doing it already and not knowing.

A funny thing happened to me when I was building a Pinterest Board of Iconic Moments. Even after being in the fashion business for a couple of decades, my favorite images for everyday style that come to mind right off the bat, ironically, best represent how I like to dress and what inspires my style.

Insert big drumroll

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Season Shifters: Fall clothing for a warm climate

Dear Sharon: How to dress for fall when you live in an area that’s always hot?  Louisiana weather is always balmy, hot, and humid so changing to a seasonal wardrobe can get tricky when you  desire fall clothing for a warm climate. (via twitter)

 JUST ASK: Do you need some quick stylist help to amp up your style?  Email us for Fashion Advice.

 Good point. I’m having my own

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Stylist Advice- How to beat cold feet? Bootights & sheepskin insoles to the rescue

Dear Sharon,  I’m hoping you can help me out. Now that the temperature is dropping I finally get to break out my boots. Happy me!

I love wearing tights with boots but find that my feet are always freezing, especially at work. I really need to beat cold feet while looking stylish and office appropriate.

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I usually wear an ankle sock over

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Stylist Advice: Are Flared Pants in Style?

Expert stylist’s advice, our weekly installment of style & lifestyle questions from YOU for us to contemplate is back, first-up comes a query on flared pants that everyone could learn a thing or two from

 From Suzanne-   Are flared and/or belled pants still fashionable to wear?

 With Miuccia Prada’s Fall takes on the bookish, print filled charm of the haute 70′s and fashion’s latest fixation on

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How to look pulled together in jeans? Look at Christie Brinkley’s ageless style for inspiration

I’ll Have What She’s Having: Grown-up gorgeous in down-to-earth and polished jeans

Crazy that what so many of us wear so often can be impossible to pull off– with style. Don’t fret.

Look no further than perennially gorgeous Christie Brinkley for celebrity style inspiration on how to look pulled together in jeans.

Ok, you may not look like her (who does??), but you can master her sublime style and

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La Bella Figura and The Genius

A funny thing happened to me at the Genius Bar- it was more chic than geek.

I’m the poster child for excessive Mac consumption (and, not of the cosmetics variety) so I’ve spent plenty of time perched at a Genius Bar. This weekend was no exception.

While we were waiting for a diagnostic to run its course on my ailing iMac the Genius and I started

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