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Not Sure About Your Outfit? Put a Necklace on It!
Do you feel completely confident when you have a foreign object swinging from your neck? Do you worry about the way it’s hanging? Do you worry about whether it’s the right type of necklace with the outfit you’re wearing? If you answered yes to any of those questions, take a deep breath (and smile) because…
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Fashionable Basics (and Popcorn) for Easy Style on Rainy Days
It’s raining outside and I’m in the mood to eat popcorn as I type away on my laptop. Go get a bowl and join me while we talk about a couple easy ways to bring style to your outfit on a rainy day. Spring = the Season of Rain It doesn’t matter where you live here…
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What is “slow fashion” and why should you care about it?
First of all, let’s familiarize ourselves with a few of the terms being thrown around the fashion world these last few years. Here are a few quick definitions, so that we’re all on the same page! Slow Fashion Slow fashion is about shopping intentionally and realizing that less is better. It is making the purposeful…
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How to Use Self-Care to Create a Life that You Don’t Need to Escape From
What is Self-care? Self-care is the act of managing your own physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual wellness. If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has little to do with “treating yourself” and more to do with parenting yourself and making choices…
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3 Key Differences Between Authentic Leather and Vegan Leather
We get lots of questions about the leather we use. Where does your leather come from? Do you use ALL of your leather hides so none goes to waste? Will you ever make bags from vegan leather? Isn’t vegan leather better for the environment? We love that you ask questions about leather — it means…
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Look Cute During Winter with These 5 Classic Style Tips
1. Elongate your legs with pointy toes. In winter, with all the layers we have to wear it can be hard to feel like we still have a feminine shape! Pointy-toed boots or shoes can make your legs appear longer, and that may be helpful to some of us short girls. When I was in…
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How to Create More and Fear Less
Creativity is the beginning of everything. Look at every single thing around you. At some point there was nothing there — nothing existed except for a thought. Every single thing you see around you was birthed in the moment of creative thought. “Creativity” is the word we chose for 2018. The process of creation can…
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When You Don’t Have What it Takes, Do It Anyway
Looking back at 2017 Last year, I was writing about Urban Southern’s 2016 highlight reel from my friend’s dining room table in Tokyo, Japan while Facetiming with Regina back in Tennessee. We were trying to figure out how we were going to accessorize two runway shows at New York fashion week. It was exciting and…
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How to Unlock the Wondrous Delight of this Season
Winter may not be everyone’s favorite season, but it’s full of wonder. Cooling temperatures put us in a hygge state of mind. A hearty warm bowl of soup in the dead of winter leaves us with full stomachs and a house that smells divine. Early sunsets create long evenings that are the perfect opportunity to…
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