how to wear black

Summer Chic Noir- Black Never Boring or Basic When You Style It Like a City Girl

There's something about black. Maybe I started to be a fan because I'm a native New Yorker and the perennial color du jour is chic + never faltering black. It's the one color that has that cool edge besides being the glue to almost everything else you own, and says I've arrived rather than where am I going. Try that mint green, why don't you? I'm not talking about dour and dreary funereal black that washes you out. But the dynamic and urban way of combining fabrications and cuts that's grown-up, classy, and very New York City, or Paris, or any metropolitan city for that matter. What about your other basics, like denim and white, you ask? They play right in to the refined mix.

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Top 4 Trends To Transition to Spring – What to wear everyday when the runway seems so daunting?

Transition to Spring 2013 with catwalk to closet trends to ease into your wardrobe... Switching  your wardrobe to transition to spring, or any season,  can be challenging, especially with crazy Global Warming shaking up the temperatures. Sharon & I thought that we'd like to wet your feet (dang, those April showers) with some bright offerings to cheer up your day. As Spring weather came into town for most of you this Easter Sunday, we considered ALL our of spring 2013 runway coverage to bring you top trends while helping you figure out that age-old dilemma: What to wear everyday when the runway seems so daunting? >>MORE: Spring Fashion from Your Favorite Designers Take a look at these ways to get a

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Black is Not Always Black… Problem Free Ways to Combine Shades of the Ultimate Neutral

Black is Not Always Black… Problem Free Ways to Combine Shades of the Ultimate Neutral Are there any guidelines on mixing and matching black separates? If they are not the same shade of black should you not wear them together? I feel that as long as they are not drastically different it is okay. I don't have a huge budget for clothes and I tend to gravitate towards simple black items. Is this a bad thing? (Birmingham, AL) This is an excellent question and a style point that is commonly ignored. Most people assume that black is black and technically defined as the absence of color, but it's not always that simple. It may have a greenish, purplish, or reddish

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