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Fashion Guidance for Girls
All girls like to look pretty yes even the nerdy and the studious ones have this hidden desire to turn into divas and make every hunk swoon over them. That is why we see so many parlors fashion magazines, designers, whose business is flourishing day by day. It is a well known fact that the first thing that attracts a man in a woman is her physical beauty. That is why we find women of all ages going to any lengths to look attractive and appealing. The way a girl dresses up and carries herself, adds a lot to her physical beauty. Right kind of clothes and make up can make even an ordinary girl, look like a beauty queen. At the same time, a gorgeous woman who is dressed badly, may not look so appealing. So, what things should be kept in mind by girls while dressing up? Here are some useful fashion tips for girls, which they can make use of, for everyday dressing as well as while dressing for special occasions. Read more on fashion clothing.
General Fashion Tips for Girls
Comfort is the Key
The first and probably, the most important of fashion tips for girls, is to wear such clothes and shoes, in which they are completely at ease. If you are dressed in something which makes you uncomfortable, it is bound to show on your face, making you seem awkward and under confident. So, remember to always wear clothes in which you are comfortable.
Dress according to Body Type
When choosing clothes, always opt for the ones, which help to hide your flaws and bring up your attractive features. A good way to ensure that is to wear clothes according to your body type. If you are top heavy, i.e you have a heavy bust and broad shoulders, wear shirts and blouses which draw attention away from your upper body. A top heavy girl should wear a “V neck”, shirts with horizontal lines and small collars or minimal designs on them. A girl who is bottom heavy, should avoid wearing body hugging jeans as it will bring every one’s attention to her heavy posterior. Instead, she should wear loose, low waist trousers or straight skirts, teemed with tight tops to bring attention to her upper body, instead of the lower body. Read more on fashion tips for the body shape.
Appropriate Make up
Appropriate make up is very essential to get the right look. During the day, one should go in for a more natural look, and avoid loud make up colors such as blue or green. One of the good fashion tips for girls in middle school, is to wear only a light lipstick, mascara, pale eye shadow and an eyeliner while at school. And even if you are planning to use foundation or other make up bases, it is advised that you try them on the weekends first, taking help from your mother or elder sister, and once you become adept at it, you may apply the same to school. As far as evening make up or make up for parties is concerned, one can try and experiment with colors that match the outfit. In the night, dark make up colors such as black, brown, blue, look really good. Read more on teen fashion.
Things to Avoid
Here is a list of fashion blunders which should be avoided by every girl.
* Do not over accessorize, i.e wear five, six chains together, or a ring on every finger, as it does not look classy at all, unless off course dressing like a hippie is what you like. Read more on fashion accessories for teens.
* Low waist trousers or jeans which show your lingerie can be a big turn off as they look quite vulgar.
* Do not wear a black lipstick.
* Do not wear awkward combination of clothing, like teaming long t-shirts with full length skirts.
* If you are wearing a white dress or a white blouse, do not wear a black bra underneath, instead go in for a skin colored one.
* Lastly, do not mix various dressing styles, for example do not wear sports shoes with an evening dress. Read more on fashion trends.
Keeping these fashion tips for girls in mind, the next time you dress up for an occasion or for your date, will help you to avoid committing any fashion faux paus. One last tip before I sign off – Attitude, confidence and a genuine smile are very important to carry off any out fit so always remember to wear them. too.
Read My Hips: These Are Jeans That Fit…
THE big issues and tough questions are what concern us here in Style Land. Let other people fret about the recession health care and the future of Conan O’Brien’s pompadour. What troubles us is how the male consumer’s simplest decision somehow became the most difficult and fraught. Why, that is, are blue jeans that most blameless and universal item of apparel, the one thing men always get wrong?
ctually, not every guy messes up, and that includes oldsters like Harrison Ford, who can be seen in the poster for his latest movie, “Extraordinary Measures,” striding urgently in the direction of some imminent crisis while clad in a pair of jeans whose cut and fit make him look more like a contemporary of his co-star, Brendan Fraser, than someone old enough to be that actor’s dad. If the 67-year-old Mr. Ford can somehow find jeans that fall within the Goldilocks parameters of suitable masculine style (not high-waisted or crotch-hugging, not too baggy and not grafted onto one’s legs) why is it that so many middle-aged men end up wearing mommy jeans or pants reminiscent of Ted Danson in “Cheers”?
“Men make so many mistakes” in their choice of denims, said Dan Peres, the editor of Details, the men’s style magazine. Offhand, Mr. Peres cited a list of offenses against what may be the perfect garment (Yves Saint Laurent always said he wished he had invented them) that included bad washes; machine-made wear holes and shredding; the awful bleached-in crease marks called whiskers; rises so high they make a guy look as if he’s wearing Huggies Pull-Ups or so low they create entirely unwelcome dorsal cleavage.
“Really, it should be the easiest style choice a guy has to make, what jeans to wear,” said Mr. Peres, who at 38 is at that dangerous age where one wrong sartorial move can mark you as a person frantically clinging to youth or slumping into middle-age surrender.
But it is not the easiest choice, at least to judge from the abundant Web sites dedicated to the obsessive pursuit of perfect jeans, which, in most cases, online connoisseurs define as something very close to the model Levi’s manufactured just after World War II.
“Something went amok with jeans in the late 1970s,” Charles DiSipio, the owner of History Preservation Associates, a Web distributor of “heritage” jeans, said by phone, “consistent with everything else in our culture.”
From the viewpoint of purists like Mr. DiSipio, who sells a variety of Japanese cult brands like Sugar Cane, the best “dungarees” are the least adorned, the least tampered with, those made from something like the original and durable indigo denim. “Whenever something loses its original use and becomes something for fashion,” Mr. DiSipio said, “the purity and beauty get diluted.”
That dilution began, by his estimation, when jeans were first subjected to bad bleach jobs and were refashioned in dowdy styles that, taken up by a then-young generation of Baby Boomers, are still being worn by those same men. How, he asked, does one account for the way men become trapped in the memory of their finest sartorial moment? What was it about being 17 that makes it a challenge for Matt Lauer, say, or Jerry Seinfeld or Barack Obama to gaze in a mirror and note that the light blue jeans one wore so confidently three decades ago now look a trifle sad?
“It’s like men keeping the same hairstyle for decades,” Mr. Peres said.
You can blame designers for overthinking or retailers for cramming their denim bars with more choices than you’d find behind the sneeze guard at a cheap buffet. You can blame Levi’s for erratic shifts in strategy that turned a simple search for a fresh pair of old reliables into a scavenger hunt.
It sounds simplistic, but to find great-looking jeans now, look first for fit, said Michael Williams, a marketing consultant whose blog, A Continuous Lean, explores peak moments in the history of American male fashion with a reverence that borders on obsession. Mr. Williams starts with jeans whose waistband neither grazes one’s bellybutton nor threatens to expose waxing secrets (or their lack.)
Stick to dark blues and let real wear do the job of distressing your trousers. Say no to whiskers, in other words. Buy jeans rinsed if you cannot stand to break in trousers that initially feel as if they had been cut from a refrigerator box with a utility knife. Whatever you do, steer well away from those pale blue relaxed-fit denims that caused the president so much grief when he was accused of wearing mommy jeans.
“You don’t have to buy jeans at some crazy-expensive place,” said Mr. Williams, whose preferred jeans are custom made by the Jean Shop in the meatpacking district and, at $300, fall within the range of the crazy-expensive. “You don’t have to spend $150 to get a nice-looking pair of jeans,” he said, adding that friends who complimented him on $50 jeans he bought last year were surprised to learn that they were not from some specialty denim cave like Hinoya Plus Mart in Tokyo but from Gap.
That a good fit can be found by men of all ages is well exemplified by Mr. Ford. His jeans in “Extraordinary Measures” — cut lean, dark blue, with no fussy extras and with a modest rise that even men of ordinary fitness might wear without embarrassment — are so correct that retailers should be encouraged to display the movie posters in their denim bars for instructional use.
The fact that his clothes were selected by his longtime costume designer, Bernie Pollack, proves that hipsters have no lock on getting denim right. Mr. Pollack is 74.
“I hate all the designer jeans, the fake treatments and the artificial aging,” said Mr. Pollack, who also outfitted Robert Redford in film for 30 years.
“We tried some of the designer washes from some of the hip stores for the movie,” he said by phone last week from his home in Los Angeles, “but it didn’t fit the character and it didn’t fit with Harrison.”
Ultimately, Mr. Ford and Mr. Pollack settled on a pair of 13MWZ Wranglers (about $32 online) for the star. The secret for Mr. Ford or for an average Joe, Mr. Pollack said, is “to have some bit of style, but still look basic.”
After all, he said, the essential element of jeans style is nonstyle — that and one other thing: They have to fit your rear.
A collaboration between Pond’s and Plains and Prints
A match made in marketing heaven, skincare brand Pond’s and apparel brand Plains & Prints have collaborated in a campaign that is expected to increase brand awareness and ultimately, achieve sales growth for this holiday season.
There have been precedents to this kind of crossover campaign, in (and outside of) the beauty brand. In August 2009, Pond’s came out with a weekly promo for Project Runway Philippines’ Season 2, culminating in a grand prize win of the "dream dress," one designed during the show.
A few months later in October, Pond’s came out with the Red Dress Collection, working with nine fashion designers for Philippine Fashion Week Holiday 2009.
"This is not the first time that Pond’s has tied up with fashion but by collaborating with Plains & Prints... Pond’s has become more accessible compared to past promotions [with the fashion designers]," said Pond’s Assistant Brand Manager Jules Gollayan, remarking that sales increased by 20% as a result of these promotions.
This time, Plains & Prints has designed 22 dresses, 12 of which will be available at their stores beginning tomorrow while the remaining 10 will be rolled out on Aug. 5.
The dresses were inspired by eight "muses" led by Pond’s model Rissa Mananquil and Plains & Prints endorser Celine Lopez as well as Divine Lee, Apples Aberin, Kelly Misa, Patty Betita, Mai Kaufmann and Bianca Valerio.
The women are mostly models and lifestyle writers with their own sense of style. The collection that bears their names is based on their personality and style predilections.
Plains & Prints owner and head of creatives Roxanne Farillas told BusinessWorld that the goal of the collaboration is to foster a "better understanding" of beauty and fashion in the consumer, highlighting that the two are inseparable.
"While Pond’s offers the latest in skincare innovation through revolutionary beauty products, Plains & Prints offers the latest styles for fashion-forward women... a tandem that will make any woman feel beautiful inside and out," she said.
This campaign takes to the next level the apparel brand’s practice of naming separates after personal friends. Ms. Farillas said that tying a dress to a personality would at the very least heighten brand recognition.
"There’s grandeur in having this group of women all together rather than just a single endorser; it gets the message across that this is the biggest collaboration of ’fashion’s finest and beauty’s best,’" Pond’s Senior Brand Manager Jacqe Yuengtian said in a separate interview.
"We need to communicate this the right way and these muses ensure that the campaign lives up to its name," she added.
Ms. Yuengtian is the proud owner of the Jacqe, a sleeveless white shift tailored to her specifications. The dress is also part of the new collection.
Red and white are the colors of the collection because these are Pond’s colors. The two brands share the same customer base of 25- to 35-year-old women although Plains & Prints has been carrying menswear separates in their stores since February.
The style of the Pond’s-Plains & Prints collection is typical of the brand: simple, streamlined and structured into silhouettes such as the A-line, drop-waist, tulip cut, ’stingray’ cut, overlap draping and peplum hems.
The fabrics -- mostly satin and chiffon and a bit of eyelet and linen -- were imported from Hong Kong and took six months to finish, supposedly because of the meticulous attention to detail. The creation of the collection was an opportunity for the apparel brand to use new techniques such as heat-pressed stamping and digital printing on sequins.
"We are the pioneers in tying up with fashion," said Mr. Gollayan. "In fact, it is considered a good practice and is currently being studied for replication [by our counterparts] in Indonesia."
The Pond’s-Plains & Prints collection ranges from P1,300-P2,000 per item. The standard retail price for Pond’s Age Miracle (50g) is P499 while Pond’s Flawless White Day Cream (50g) is P199.
For every purchase of specially marked Pond’s Age Miracle and Pond’s Flawless White Day Cream (50g), Night Cream (50g), or Serum (30ml), the shopper will get P200 off the Pond’s-Plains & Prints dresses or P100 off any regularly-priced apparel until Sept. 15
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By ELVA RAMIREZ
Young labels like the Row, Jason Wu, Nellie Partow, Waris Ahluwalia and Prabal Gurung are trumpeting their New York roots on apparel and labels in an effort to create a sartorial version of the locavore movement. The idea: to link locally-made clothes with artisanal values to promote stitched-in-New York sales.
As New York's Garment District struggles to survive, a consortium of designers and manufacturers have launched a campaign, Made in Midtown, in hopes that clothing shoppers will become more conscious of the impact of their purchases.
A prominent tag on a Jason Wu dress reads, "This garment has been completely hand assembled in New York, using fabrics of superior craftmanship." Mr. Wu says that keeping his operations in New York, where his design studio is located, is vital to his business. Close proximity to his pattern makers, cutters and suppliers allows him to more easily experiment with designs as well as keep tabs on the work, says the designer, who rose to national fame when Michelle Obama wore a dress designed by him to the presidential inauguration.
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