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entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, trends

Summer Festival Fashion

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Summertime and the livin’s easy. With summer months ahead there is a lot to look forward to: days at the beach, margaritas by the pool, bbq’s in the back yard. And music. Summertime is concert time with lots of acts going on tour this time of year and festivals all across this beautiful country of ours. What to wear to said concert or festival? Pick up the hippie vibe and get inspired with an updated seventies look complete with denim, color and crochet. Even your lips get the earthy treatment with all natural Burt’s Bees. Who needs make up when you’re this happy? Rock on!

Plenty by Tracy Reese striped dress
$198 – modcloth.com

Joe Browns vest
£30 – debenhams.com

Scotch & Soda boyfriend shorts
€90 – scotch-soda.com

Bruuns Bazaar leather sandals
449 DKK – musthaves.dk

Ray-Ban ray ban sunglasses
$145 – endless.com

Burts Bees lip treatment
£9.99 – debenhams.com
celebrity, fashion, trends

Prudish Fashion

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I feel the fashion trend is moving away from the T&A showcase we saw in the early to mid ‘00s (thank you, Britney Spears) and becoming a bit more, dare I say, prudish?  Everyone from Louis Vuitton to H&M are selling pretty young things collared blouses, reminiscent of a more puritan time.  “Midis” or mid-calf length skirts began taking over the ever changing hemline trend about a year or so ago.  Covering up seems to be bragging a lot more than showing off these days.  It shows restraint.  Imagination.  Coyness.  Adele is riding this trend as best as any celebrity I see with her full figure on display in long sleeve, high-necked gowns.   Case in point, she picked up her six Grammy awards recently while wearing not a costume that shoots fire out of her boobs (and thank you, Katy Perry) but of an understated black gown by Armani Prive.  As a somewhat conservative Southern gal who’s never been one to show much skin I welcome the trend to dress a little more modestly, why there’s nothing wrong with leaving something to the imagination…