Fab Forties: New York Fashion Week

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Style Imitating Art: Freja Fashion Plate

Hi! Welcome to another round of Style Imitating Art. I cannot believe Thanksgiving is this week. Seriously, how did was this simultaneously the longest and shortest year ever? Does it feel that way to you too? INSPIRATION ART WORK Freja illustrated Scandinavian fashion plate, 1886 {Public Domain} The inspiration piece is an illustarted Scandinavian fashion…

Style Imitating Art Inspiration: Freja Fashion Plate

Hi, this is just a short post to introduce next week’s Style Imitating Art inspiration piece. Style Imitating Art {aka SIA} is hosted by Jen {Librarian for Life and Style}, Salazar {14 Shades of Grey}, and me. Every other Monday, one of us curates an art piece to use as style inspiration for the following…

Coffee Talk: Lottery Winnings, Amazing Food, and Fall Foot Fashions

This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase something using the links, I will receive a small commission. Thank you in advance. I’d like to welcome you to Coffee Talk. If you’re new here, this is where I share some of the great and not~so~great stuff that I find on the web. Topics range from…

What I Wore: Fashion Flashback

Have you ever gone back through your outfit pictures, looked at something and thought: Hmmmm, why haven’t I worn that again? That’s totally what I was thinking when I looked at this picture from 2012. Like, seriously, this is such a “Daenel outfit”… So I’m resharing the post in the hopes that you’ll be inspired…

Fashionable Legs {In the Closet}

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of No nonsense for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I learned something about myself this year: I absolutely love skirts. For years, I was anti~skirt. I thought they were just too fussy for me and, honestly, I thought the only things that looked good…

Where Bloggers Live: My Top 5 Posts

As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. When Bettye first…

Where Bloggers Live: You Don’t Owe Anyone Politeness

As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. I struggled with…

How Black Barbie Influenced Me

While I’ve discussed my grandmother’s influence on my love of coffee and my aunt Phyllis providing one of my first dolls, as well as my aunt Cissy taking me to the doll museum, I don’t believe I’ve ever written about how I felt my aunt Carolyn served as the inspiration for the first Black Barbie.…

What I Wore: How to Style the Encore Dress by Zuri for Work

As the blogger and photographer behind Living Outside the Stacks, I independently select and write about stuff I love and things I think you’ll enjoy too. Living Outside the Stacks has affiliate and advertising partnerships so I get revenue from sharing this content and from your purchase. Thank you for your support. Hey, Friends! How…