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Style 101.(strapless dress)(Brief article)
Style 101
No Strings Attached
The new strapless dresses are surprisingly versatile -- even for
day. By Jessica B. Matlin
If your name is Jessica and you live in Los Angeles, your strapless dress of choice is gauzy and offhand, accessorized with a Starbucks cup and platform espadrilles. If your name is Whitney and you live on the Upper East Side, your strapless dress is long and satin, worn with Grandmother's pearls, and is perfect for the cotillion. But now, designers are turning out strapless dresses for the rest of us -- ones that are neither beach casual nor debutante formal. The difference is all in the details. These new daytime dresses are made of refined fabrics like silk but are also ...
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- Magazine article from: Victoria Otto, Whitney May 1, 2003 700+ words
...These mothers threw campstyle shirts over their Bermuda shorts and slipped into flats or loafers. My mother would wear a strapless dress with a fitted bodice, the skirt flaring out below her knees, with some kind of heeled mules on her feet. Or she would...
- GROOMED & DOOMED: STRAPLESS DRESSES; Celebs are going au naturel in the bosom...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) August 29, 2004 700+ words
...floaty leopard print, and is clearly still keeping a-breast of the trends into her 40s. Purrfect... PICK YOUR PRICE STRAPLESS DRESSES pounds 5 SCARF FLORENCE + FRED pounds 35 PETER WORTH pounds 140 OASIS VINTAGE pounds 45 pounds 30 pounds 40 pounds 40 ICI...
- What to buy now ... strapless dresses: Just add sunshine
- Newspaper article from: The Scotsman Gaby Soutar August 15, 2009 700+ words
FORGET straps, as this season the hottest acces-sory is a pair of bronzed shoulders, to set off a chi-chi dress. Our favourites are those with a bit of structure, like this striking design worn by actress Leslie Mann (right). If you feel the same way, then you'll love this rigid satin number from
- BOLERO JACKET WORKS WELL OVER STRAPLESS DRESS.(Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) July 27, 1998 700+ words
Dear Fashion Police: What is appropriate to wear over long strappy dresses during summer evenings? Unless a dress comes with its own matching shawl, it is very difficult to match anything. A blazer will not do. I have a few weddings to attend this summer and am very frustrated that there is nothing
- HEALTH: YES, YOU CAN WEAR A STRAPLESS DRESS! Bingo wings and squidgy backs are...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) May 8, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Words: Lynne Michelle. A month is enough time to make a real difference to bingo wings. Do these toning exercises at least four times a week (daily if possible), aiming for 15-20 reps of each. Do one set of each exercise once and go straight to the next with no resting time so you keep your
- Let's NOTHING says summer like a strapless dress. Nothing beats off-shoulder...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) July 29, 2005 700+ words
Everyone from Donna Karan to Issa has designed numbers that travel brilliantly from London to LA. She may have a broken heart, but Sienna Miller still looks the winsome heroine. Supermodel Karolina Kurkova stays cool in an Earl Jean dress and Miu Miu sandals, and Kirsten Dunst is perky in See by
- Seeing stars: Strappy hour; How things have changed. Once a strapless dress was...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) February 19, 2002 700+ words
Byline: STEVE PURCELL Charlize Theron "If you hit the button in the middle, does this dress come off like Michael Schumacher's seat-belt?" asks model CharlizeSonique: What do you call a jacket worn back to front that's full of straight lines? Oh, that's it, a straight jacket Now it seems that only
- Spring's 8 sexiest styles.
- Magazine article from: Cosmopolitan February 1, 2004 700+ words
...475, and stretch-silk bra, $220, Dolce & Gabbana [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] (7) STRAPLESS DRESSES Stretch-silk twill strapless dress with cut-pleats, Tom Ford for Gucci, 800-234-8224; multistrap sandals with bamboo heel...
