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Beauty is in the Eye …

This (short) week’s posts have focused on black, which has been one of the most controversial topics of all time, at least since 2005/06 when I started blogging. In the archives, though, I found this old post which explains the “how”, in general terms, to yesterday’s “what”. Three great accent colors are present in the …

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Black to Basics

On the one hand are the Classicists. They say things like, “everyone needs a little black dress”, “black is slimming”, and “cuz it goes with everything”. On the other hand are the Idealists; they declare brown and navy and other (presumably more flattering) dark neutrals black equivalents. But equivalent they are not. Browse related books. …

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