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It’s Easy Being Green!

Modesta is a fashionable fashionista who blogs about fashion. Her website is www.modelicios.com Across many cultures green is commonly associated with nature, growth, regeneration and fertility. In pagan times, the “Green Man” was a symbol of fertility. It was known as the color of the heavens in the Ming Dynasty. In Ireland, it is a color of luck and is popular on St. Patrick’s Day or during…

Camouflage: Don’t Blend In, Stand Out!

Military Style? Blend out with camouflage Modesta Mawarire is a fashionable fashionista who writes about fashion. Her website is Modelicios.com. I’m seeing camouflage or ‘camos’ everywhere these days. Just like animal print which I wrote about in my last blog posting here, camo is timeless. Military camouflage patterns have been popular in fashion and art from as early as the 1920s. A lot of…

Don’t Change Your Leopard Spots

Styles comes and goes but leopard print is a timeless fashion trend. Throughout history kings and other high-ranking people have worn animal skin as a sign of status and power. Christian Dior introduced the first leopard print dress in 1947 and the trend became big with high-ranking people in the ’50s from Marilyn Monroe to Elizabeth Taylor to Jackie Kennedy. Mitzah Bricard and a silk chiffon…

Modesta is a fashionable fashionista who writes about fashion. Her website is Modelicious.com. Have you ever spilt something on your brand new or favorite dress, shirt, top, trousers or jeans and left a permanent stain? You start to think of the amount of money you spent on it, how it was the only one left in the shop in your size and if you are a bargain hunter like me, you start calculating how…