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Plus-Size Model Elly Mayday is Inspirational in More Ways than One

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During a particularly lazy Tumblr scrolling session last week, I was stopped in my tracks by a set of images featuring one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. A pin-up girl with long blonde hair, full lips, creamy skin and curves for days, this woman modelled bright and bold underwear that fully showcased her various talents. She was so striking, and so confident in the way she held…

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Work Marsala into Your Wardrobe: Pantone’s 2015 Colour of the Year Makes an Unexpected Fashion Statement

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[su_quote]A naturally robust and earthy wine red, Marsala enriches our minds, bodies and souls.[/su_quote]

Pantone have named their 2015 colour of the year, and in a departure from the bright, tropical hues of recent years, this year’s colour – Marsala – is deeper, richer and much more grounded.

Marsala is an earthy red colour, named for red wine produced in the Marsala wine region in Sicily,…

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Make This Year the Best Dressed Year of Your Life!

Fashion Resolutions

In the wake of the new year we’re all high on good intentions, and are busy making resolutions to improve our health, get that dream job or chase our passions. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to become a little banal and cliche – eat healthier, exercise more, quit my job, you say? I say go against the grain and set some new years resolutions that might be a little more fun to tackle, and may…

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Christmas Party Outfit Ideas with Boohoo | Lookbook

Our Christmas season calendars are looking pretty full for the next week, with workplace breakup parties, extended family events, and wild nights with all those who have come home for the holidays. This can put a lot of pressure on one’s wardrobe! That’s why today I’m sharing Boohoo.com’s latest Christmas collection lookbook, which is full of outfit inspiration for your christmas party season.…

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Reliving my teenage years with a little late night UL

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DIY Gift Ideas for Fashionistas

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If you want to give a gift to someone special and are working within a budget, or can’t quite find what you’re looking for, making something yourself is a great solution. Thanks to Pinterest, there are tons of DIY ideas to create pretty items and accessories for the fashionistas in your life, which they will love twice over because they will have something to wear that is totally unique.  From…

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Off Duty Supermodel Style with 17 Sundays 'Supernormal' | Summer Lookbook

Off Duty Supermodel Style with 17 Sundays 'Supernormal' |Summer Lookbook

17 Sundays are thrilled to announce their Spring Summer 2014 campaign entitled ‘SUPER NORMAL’. ‘SUPER NORMAL’ is an exploration of the ease and livability of 17 Sundays. The collection focuses on the most important part of 17 Sundays’ garments, which is the girls that live in them. ‘SUPER NORMAL’ is about celebrating the lifestyle and models in the plus category. Designer Claire Primrose adds,…

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Holiday Party Style, Sorted with #ChampagneTuesday #CTHChat

As is now tradition on Tuesdays at CTH HQ, this Tuesday just gone we indulged in a few glasses of bubbles for #ChampagneTuesday, and being the first Tuesday of the month, we took to Google Hangouts on Air to talk style and what’s in store. As it is the start of December and the real kick-off of the silly season, we thought it…

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Photography Tee & Fashion with Reason | Outfit

Photography Tee Bandana

When I’m trawling through the trash and the treasures at a charity or thrift store, I always make sure and check the mens’ tshirt section – often there I find the coolest prints, the best colour schemes, and the best quality vs price point items. Men’s tees at op shops are rarely more than a few dollars and are so wonderful to customise – cut the neck off to create a dropped shoulder tee, cut the…

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Summer Capsule Wardrobe to Beat a Heatwave

Summer Capsule Wardrobe

Ugh Summer, amirite? This is not my season. Give me spring, give me autumn, and actually, even give me winter because at least I can wrap myself in thickly knitted cardigan that probably belonged to somebody’s grandpa, and a brightly coloured scarf and grey tights, and I’m good. The thing that gets me about summer is that its too dang hot to wear accessories. Belt? NO. Scarf? Yuk. Necklace? Even…

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Get Your Party Shoes On! Clutch Those Heels SS14 Party Lookbook

A great party night will be remembered for years. Each song on the dancefloor is better than the next, the drinks are going down with ease and every conversation you have is electric, everyone you meet is instantly your friend. The memories of these nights serve us well during the workday grind, giving us spontaneous giggles as we remember that crazy thing our friend did. But sometimes, better…

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Feeding the Ducks and Photos in the Flowers | #BucketFullOfMagic

If you’ve been playing along at home, you’ll likely know there’s nothing better I like to do on a Tuesday than to grab a camera with some of my favourite people, find a cool location to take some pics, pop a bottle of champagne, and settle in with my computer for a whole lot of photo editing. On a particularly blustery spring day a few Tuesdays ago, we decided to tick a couple of items off of MJ’s

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Capitol Couture for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt.1

Capitol Couture for the Hunger Games: Mockingjay

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 comes out this week, and I am beyond excited. In the lead up to the release, I’ve been getting my fix online by scoping out ‘Capitol Couture‘, the Capitol’s online magazine. Part propaganda and part high fashion, Capitol Couture showcases the who’s who, the where to be, and the fashions you absolutely must be seen in for this year’s Hunger Games events.

What…

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Off to the Races | Spring Racing Photoshoot

Nick took these photos a few weeks ago at the gorgeous Victoria Park Racecourse & Adelaide Oval Footbridge, with our friend April, to showcase some of the shoes from Clutch Those Heels to suit the spring racing season. Amidst a little controversy and with some polarising thoughts about the whole horse racing thing, I really fell in love with these photos, taken in some of the most beautiful…

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Fashions on the Field vs. The Reality of Racing

Do you remember this scene from My Fair Lady? It’s The Ascot Gavotte, the high-society song in which the characters stand posed and move stiffly like mannequins, just bodies to showcase the fabulous outfits they have selected and put together specially for the Ascot opening race. The Dukes, the Duchesses, the Earls, the Ladies and their peers have all gathered, dressed immaculately, apparently…

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15 Creative Ways to Style a Graphic T Shirt

15 Out-Of-The-Box Ways to Style a Graphic Tee

The clothes we choose can say a lot about our personality. Sure, clothing fulfills our basic needs to keep ourselves covered and protected from the elements, but when we choose our clothing and our outfits, we make a choice to tell the world something about ourselves. First impressions count, and someone’s first impression of you could be based on your choice of clothing and how you’ve put it all…

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Citrus In Spring | Outfit

Citrus for Spring | Outfit

September and October are two of my favourite months for many reasons, one of which being that they have the most appropriate weather to wear what I consider to be my uniform: dresses and boots, sans one hundred layers of long sleeves, coats and scarves. It’s freeing and fun to play around with colour and flirty, feminine details; that being said, on the particular spring day we took these…

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