After a break from the holiday season, you start looking forward once again for a chance to dress up and celebrate something fabulous, right? Valentine’s Day is that perfect opportunity to get dolled up no matter what or how you are celebrating. Here are some tips on what to wear to look your best, romantic…or avengeful.
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How to dress for a Mardi Gras parade
by: Laura Milligan
Average High Temperature for February 16, in New Orleans, LA: 65 degrees Farenheit
Average Low: 46 degrees Farenheit
Mardi Gras this year falls on Tuesday, February 16, which means you’ve got to fast forward through your Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day outfits and start planning for one of the biggest party days of the season.
Below we’ll give tips for two types of Mardi Gras outfits: one for parades (we’re focusing on New Orleans, Mobile and other U.S. parades) and one that works for house parties. If you’ve been to Carnival celebrations in Europe or South America, please leave your tips on what to wear to those parades in the comments section below!
Dressing for your last-minute Christmas shopping trip
Photo Source: ReelMovieNews.com
If you’re still on the Internet four days before Christmas and still have shopping left to do, we’d normally tell you to get off your booty and get to the mall. Or at least get back to your online shopping. But in this case, we’ll let you procrastinate a little while longer so that we can help make your marathon Christmas shopping trip a little less upsetting.
Picking out the perfect Thanksgiving outfit
W magazine; via Stylefrizz
To kick off your fashionable holiday season, you’ve just got to start impressing your family and friends with a knockout Thanksgiving outfit. Here we’ll highlight a few different scenarios and share looks you can shop by clicking on each image.
Office-appropriate Halloween costumes
Diane Kruger is Cabaret-chic and office appropriate; Photo: Elle.com
Office parties — especially ones that involve costumes — can be a nightmare…or an opportunity to show off your creativity in a way you’re normally not allowed to do at work. If you’re encouraged to dress up for Halloween or attend a Halloween-themed office party, you don’t have to suffer a complete meltdown trying to think of a good costume that will get you attention, but not the kind that’ll get you fired. Audrey, a CPA in Houston who also writes about fashion for her blog Chic Girl Style, has tips for figuring out how to make your Halloween costumes office appropriate.
Costume Ideas for Halloween
Smurfette and...what was her name?
Being creative and having fun should be the benchmarks for a more memorable and fun Halloween. In fact, one WTW reader won a costume contest with over 100 participants in a more cute-than-sexy marionette costume complete with strings and giant wooden controller – on her head But what really swayed the judges was her creativity and winning attitude.
Labor Day
No matter what city you live in, Labor Day is the official end of summer and one of the best times to get creative with your outfit. Unlike the Fourth of July, this all-American holiday is more about saying goodbye to summer and embracing everything fall rather than dressing in red, white and blue. Read the rest of this entry »