Tag: wardrobe
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Never Shop for Clothes Naked or Needy
5 Steps to Prevent Impulsive Shopping It is never wise to grocery shop when you are hungry because your cravings can get the best of your budget. Your family may love all the junk food you bring home but, after the sugar high drops, they’ll be disappointed when you cannot put together a complete meal…
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6 Steps to Creating your Personal Dress Code
Many moms have joined with Staples in celebrating this back-to-school-season as “the most wonderful time of the year.” Especially, the moms of students with dress codes. It may have been a challenge to hunt down the khakis or figure out sizes after a summer of growth, but it’s all worth it once the morning routine starts…
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7 tips for Finding a Great Outfit Quick
Most women make shopping an experience. We enjoy going with our girlfriends and try on lots of potential pieces for our wardrobe. Even if we have no need for clothes. The dressing room halls become our runway as we model for each other’s opinions before we make our decision: to spend or not to spend–this…
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Here’s How a Crowded Closet Kills Confidence
You are not the same person you were last year. Not emotionally, not physically. Chances are you are not the same financially either. You may have gained weight or lost it; your
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3 Significant Signs of Baby Jesus’ Wardrobe
What was all the fuss about Jesus’ attire the night He was born? Doesn’t every baby wear swaddling cloths at birth? Surely when the angels proclaimed that the shepherds would, “recognize him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger.” (Luke 2:12) it was the…
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Can You Inherit Confidence?
I had just begun my journey as a single mom when my grandmother died. I’d been working hard to build a business to support myself and my son and felt like I was getting no where. Winter was coming and I had two new bodies to clothe–my newborn and my new figure. That was long…
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Shop Like a Man: Guilt-Free
I did it again! I forgot to buy cereal, yet there I was trying to make the room for all the other groceries I didn’t need. I suppose I could get up early and make my kids eggs in the morning since now I have over two dozen! Anyone with any knowledge of budgeting knows…
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What is Your Purchasing Theme?
I love dark chocolate. If my secret stock of it ever starts getting scarce, I hit the market–immediately, before I run out and have a crisis. The funny thing is, I never lack chocolate because I buy it all the time and seldom allow myself the indulgence of eating it. You may roll your eyes at…
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When Weight Conflicts with Confidence
One of the leading causes for a chaotic closet is weight fluctuation. Who wants to wear clothing that does not fit correctly? Pulled and puckered fabric draws attention to bulges; loose and hanging clothing gives an impression of insecurity and inadequacy. Either problem creates a self-consciousness that can easily be prevented with properly sized garments.…
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Building a Confident Closet
By now, all that is left in your closet is clothing that fits, flatters and makes you feel confident. Congratulations! Now it’s time to create beautiful and complete outfits that represent you well. As Americans we tend to think we need a lot more than we do–especially when it comes to clothing. In reality, a thinner…
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How to do a Wardrobe Weeding
Of all the outfits you wore last week, which one made you feel most confident and why? If you followed my closet audit advice and picked out your favorite clothing items, did you notice any common traits between them? The color, pattern, fabric–what makes you feel good in what you wear? Is it the high-fashion statement pieces? Or…
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Worried about What to Wear?
People change. We change our size, weight, careers and opinions all the time. Why, then, is it so difficult to change our wardrobe? We don’t mind adding to what we have but we are not nearly as eager to get rid of anything extra. We complain that we do not have all that we need but…