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Transitional dressing can be tricky. When it’s not quite warm enough without a jacket but still not cold enough to warrant a winter coat. The whole situation can be quite confusing and frankly every woman’s nightmare. But what if I told you that fashions best friend, the oh so versatile summer kimono, has evolved for...
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We’re a sucker for bold print and Peaches pink and white dogtooth jacket is the perfect summer cover up. The bold retro sunglasses and fuchsia pink quilted chain bag instantly upgrade this outfit with a bold pop of block colour.   Jacket – eBay, Bag – Dorothy Perkins, Sunglasses – Primark, Shorts – River Island,...
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Infuse some Oriental tradition into your look and make like a Geisha this season in this summer’s hottest trend. Carrying on from the look we first saw hit the catwalks last autumn, kimonos are sticking around for summer, with the likes of Tom Ford for Givenchy, Balmain and Cavalli all producing SS14 collections full of...
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In fashion what goes around comes around. In the space of a few years that dress that you were adamant was ‘so last season’ can quite literally be resurrected from the fashion ashes and once again become the ‘next big thing’. I can’t count the amount of times my own mother has nostalgically reminisced as...
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Let’s face it although the average height of the UK female is 5’3”, there is an ever increasing rise in the new, taller, ‘glamazon’ women. I, myself, am the dizzying height of 6’1” (and a half, which I always play down). Although pretty much every person I meet in the street gushes “my goodness, aren’t...
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If you are a play-it-safe-fashion kind of girl then you have probably avoided prints when making your style choices. Block colours and clean silhouettes are so much easier to mix and match and can easily be adjusted to last through a couple of seasons. Well there is no hiding behind block colour this season; large,...
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Last summer we saw the return of the flatform, the more stable version of the high heeled platform shoe. A long flat sturdy wedge beneath our favourite flats made us feel sky-high. Creating the illusion of longer legs and resonant of our favourite 90s era, the flatform became THE shoe on the stomping ground. As...
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With over 300 stores throughout the UK and beyond, it’s hard to imagine a high street without River Island. Who would have thought this high street giant started out as a fruit and veg shop? Image courtesy of Wikipedia.com With a long history dating back over 60 years, the journey to the River Island we...
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Christmas parties are like weddings; alcohol will flow freely, cheesy pop songs are compulsory and no one will have any idea what to wear. Why is it that both weddings and Christmas have us reaching excitedly for items of clothing that we would never normally be seen dead in? Not again, not this year!  Semple...
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MSL introduce to you a week of style from The Wardrobe Angel, aka Stephanie Roper. Todays style diary sees Stephanie go for a ‘dressed down look’, which is perfect for a Monday morning. It’s full of character and individuality. Her jeweled necklace and metallic silver stiletto shoes spice up her black skinny jeans and her...
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