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LIP SERVICE

In my last article,”These Feet Were Made For Walking”, I wrote about the seasons nail colour. I want to also tell you about the colour of a lipstick which I found that works very nicely with it. The colour is BELIZE by Laura Mercier. It may not suit all very fair skins but it will…

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How to use Fashion Magazines

For most of us, looking at fashion magazines and thinking about how to apply what they show and talk about to our own style is more likely to drain confidence than build it. Unsurprisingly, I read a lot of fashion mags. But I don’t read them to keep up with the latest advice on how…

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THESE FEET WERE MADE FOR WALKING

Every summer I write about the importance of regular pedicures - and actually I don’t know why I limit it to the summer ! I know from speaking to a chiropodist and a pedicurist, that many women neglect their feet because their feet are rarely seen except in sandals and at holiday time. In summer…

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LOVELY LEGS

Most of us love summer but there is a downside, we have to ditch our opaque tights. There are very few women with perfect legs. Veins of all shapes and sizes and uneven skin tone afflict most of us after a certain age (and of course after childbirth). As someone whose career involves a lot…

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MAKE-UP MAKEOVER

“Its very strange to go around the stores in July and only find winter clothes”. How often I would hear clients say this to me. And now I can fully understand. In a private store like Wardrobe we had clothes for all seasons, but you did have to shop early not to experience disappointment of…

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FINISHING TOUCHES

In my last article I said I would deal with the subject of hair, related to making the most of ourselves and our clothes. I was always amazed at how much women would spend on updating their clothes and yet their hair was the same year after year. I am not advocating changing your hairstyle…

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C’est la Vie

That’s life…..I’ve written many times about how concerned I am by the idea of buying top quality, expensive clothes on-line, but that’s the way things are going. Recently, I read about a shop whose owner, seeing that buying clothes through the internet had become the most important factor for their business had brought in an…

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THE SHOW GOES ON

I promised so many of my clients at Wardrobe that when the time was right I would continue to try to find clothes that inspired confidence. I am now in the same situation as they are, without Wardrobes edit. As I have repeated many times, I believe designers are lost in a maze of conflicting…

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