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Bam! Pow! Zap! Comic Couture Takes Over – Will You Let Your Inner Super Hero Out To Play?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the latest trend to take over the fashion world, and depending on your viewpoint, it’s about as childish or as cute as it gets. From the sublime to the ridiculous: Tom …
What (not) to wear to a wedding: no nipple flashing, wearing white or being too sexy?
Here in Ireland, we love nothing more than a good wedding. Sure isn’t it a great excuse to get together with old friends and family, find out what’s been going on, who’s married who, who’s pregnant and who’s got divorced (even …
Fantasy shopping: New season buys you might actually want to wear
We’ve done a bit of looking at trends and threads you wouldn’t want be caught dead in over the last little while, so I thought today we’d have a chat about new season not-too-trend-mad things you might actually want to …
The January sales: what should you be looking for?
Ah, the sales – there is, in my opinion, no tougher time to tackle the shops than in the midst of either the Christmas or the summer sales. Merchandising goes out the window as skirts, trousers and tops are bundled …
Wedge Trainers: Yay or Nay?
Earlier this week, I did something that I’ve been threatening to do for the best part of a year. I finally bought myself a pair of hidden wedge hi-top trainers like a damn dirty hipster. Now, I know they’re not …
Get the look: perennial favourite Kirsten Dunst
There are a few young starlets who, when it comes to style, always get it right. Top of the list? Alexa Chung, Olivia Palermo and Rachel Bilson – chronicled on this site a few weeks ago. But there are also …
One Christmas party dress, three ways – how will you wear yours?
With the (gulp!) festive season fast approaching, it’s time to get out your gúnaí Nollaig and get ready to attend boring party after boring party (with the occasional fun night in between). And, God knows, we don’t all have enough …
Christmas shopping? Five fashionable (and foolproof!) gift ideas that won’t make them cry like Claire Danes
Nobody likes feeling like this – via Claire Danes Cry Face Tumblr (yes, really) Buying clothes for other people is never a walk in the park – and being on the receiving end is not much better! In fact, there’s …
The long and the short of it – the simplest slimming trick in the book
Y’know how they say that horizontal stripes make you look bigger? Well, they – whoever “they” are – ain’t merely shooting the breeze. Horizontal stripes make you look bigger by creating an illusion of width. The eye is drawn across rather …
Love Leather this season. It’s cool, on trend and sexy as hell
One of the hottest trends for this coming Autumn/Winter 2012 is leather, both real if you can afford it and faux. (In our house when it is not the real deal, we refer to it as ‘led-er’.) Leather is always cool. It …