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The Snow Boot Guide: The Top 6 Winter Boots For Different Kinds of Snow And Ice

Snow Boot Guide- The top 6 winter boots for every kind of snow
The definitive video snow boot guide for every kind of winter condition short of mountain explorer When I was at my vacation place out west last week, it was cold. Crazy cold.  I decided to do a Periscope video snow boot guide of my favorite stylish and practical footwear so you know how to look for the best winter boots for different kinds of snow. You know how I love my fancy shoes. But you also need to be smart and practical when the occasion calls for it. I learned the hard way that all snow boots are not created equally on my first trip to Jackson Hole.  What is perfectly functional for city snow is as practical as wearing a bikini

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Luxe Western Home Decoration Ideas on a Bargain Budget. Trust Me, You Will Want to Go West!

This chair was only the bones when I found it at the Brimfield Flea Market, I left the back exposed and used a deep blue Chanel Velvet. The mirror was found in my mother attic. The vintage sign came from the 25th street Flea Market in New York City
Living large on a small budget. It's not about money. It's about home style! Cowboy Chic: Interior designer tips to add some rustic Western Home Decoration to your home style with luxury Flea Market Finds for a 'Rustic Big Chill'  I'm always up for a challenge when it comes to home style. Many of you know that I was at my vacation place out West recently. When it came to redecorating my Wyoming home, I wanted something that was very different from how we live in New York City. Something that was both very cozy, rustic, and Western. The launch point for my design inspiration came from vintage Roy Rogers and Dale Evans memorabilia, and then I took it from there.

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Whoa, There’s Vintage Western Style-A-Plenty

Inspiration Notes: Vintage Western Style to clean your city palette... We all need a deep breath some time. For me, it happens when I get to kick back at my vacay house and leave the urban grind behind for some mountain air. I consider my family VERY lucky to live in the best, most diversified city in the world (NYC) and to be able to spend quality time in an area with the most gorgeous natural vistas (Jackson Hole, WY). >> MORE: Flea Market finds Of course, I can't leave my stylist eye behind. I just adapt it to what is around me.(Okay, okay. I confess that I did do some online shopping by way of some Giuseppe Zanotti and Maison

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Celebrity Festival Style – Kate Bosworth in Isabel Marant

I'll Have What She's Having: Western Chic With a Dollop of Cool Rocker Edge This year's Coachella music festival seems as if it's sartorially minded revelers sense of style is more center stage than that of the bands in the line-up... Just take a look at the always on cue Kate Bosworth in Isabel Marant, looking tres chic western with a cool dose of deshabille met with a studied hand at mixing modes for a sexy take on rocker chic and the perfect example of super celebrity festival style... a look that you may want to covet for casual summer evenings. >> SHOP: On Trend Western Boots Go for the real thing, at a fraction of the price, in this Scully Western Shirt- more

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Cowgirl Chic- Get The Look of The Real Cowgirls of Jackson Hole, WY

The Real Cowgirls of Jackson Hole, WY: Jolene and Jamie
You all know that saying about the grass being greener on the other side of the fence. Well, sometimes for me, it's the other side of the arena. As a native New Yorker and die-hard city girl, I'm always fascinated and in awe of the effortless and authentic cool of cowgirls.  Having a vacation home in Jackson Hole, WY, I also have a closet with plenty of plaid snapfront shirts and cherished western boots that I never get to wear unless I'm trying to ride a horse. That's where Jamie Putnam comes in as she instructs me and my family Western riding lessons. Jamie teaches Introduction to Rodeo and regular Western riding lessons at Putnam Horesmanship, when she's not training barrel/ rope

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Western Royals- Loving Kate’s Cowgirl Moment and How to Get the Look

I'll Have What She's Having: Whoa, the Duchess of Cambridge goes rodeo Talk about a photo op! The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge gussied up in Western duds to launch the parade for what is billed as "rodeo's richest, roughest ride" at the Calgary Stampede in Canada. Finally, I have found in Canada in common with Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge-- the ability to pull off Western wear as a city slicker! >> SHOP: Trendy Western Boots & Classic Cowboy Well, for me at least, a NYC girl with a vacation home out West that I successfully decorated with an ode to Western icons Dale Evans and Roy Rogers... see, anyone can get their

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Happy Trails, The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum Collection is up for auction at Christies

Giddy up to iconic western style like no other or be inspired for your own Home on the Range Here's a little tidbit that most of you don't know, I may be a native NYC girl with a post-modern loft that has minimalist sculptural designs but when it was time to redecorate our vacation place in Wyoming, my design motivation was a homage to iconic western legends, Dale Evans and Roy Rogers! >>RELATED: Get your giddyup on with more Cowboy style posts! When it comes to design, of any kind, you need some inspiration as a launch point- whether it is your wardrobe or your home. Most old school western style is very tan and bland for me and the more

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Lauren by Ralph Lauren Spring virtual fashion show full of the best of the almost West

It's like being at a fashion show but you can here the editorial talking points Lauren by Ralph Lauren is turning to a different push for Spring with what they call the brand's first-ever online fashion show. It's kinda sort of a fashion show but more of a runway presentation with editorial talking points to simulate "real" front row chatter from magazine fashion editors including Marie Claire's fashion director Nina Garcia, Harper's Bazaar's executive fashion and beauty editor Avril Graham, Cosmopolitan's fashion director Michelle McCool and O, The Oprah Magazine's creative director Adam Glassman. >> Look ahead the the Ralph Lauren Collection Fall 2010 fashion show >> Western Boots Shopping Guide The clothes are VERY Ralph and very wearable with

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On the Road: Authentic western looks are more romance than reality…

Road trip shopping in Montana and Wyoming for iconic western fashion… Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam… Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, except when it comes to the fashion that’s cloudy all day! City slicker fashion peeps have a romantic and idolized view of Western clothing. We assume that the fabulous fringe, perfectly worn in cowboy boots, dusty dark jeans, and delicately beaded belts are an easy find in any shop in a town where lodgepole pine outweighs cement or old time shoot ‘em up references still apply. Well, reality doesn’t always play as well as Ralph Lauren’s stylized vision of the Wild West when it comes to fashion. I should know about authentic western fashion

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Ranch Dressing… Western style, how to get it right

Ranch Dressing… Western style, how to get it right Okay, I have a body that's basically a mass between my bust (which isn't small) and waist and a fairly long set of legs for my large-boned, 5' 4 1/2" frame. Most of the time I'm in blue jeans as most cowgirls are in Texas. I need some things western but sophisticated to build a more career-like wardrobe. What do you suggest I start buying besides denim, gingham, and calico? (Haltom City, TX) Whoa, gingham and calico!?! Sweetie, there's great western and bad western. Summoning up an Elly May fantasy when you aren't built like Miss Clampett and it's not a Beverly Hillbillies theme party, is simply not a good thing!

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