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Basic Style Guides Style

What You Need to Know about Wearing a Kilt (B)

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Fashion World Opinion And Commentary

Women Wearing Men’s Clothes: What Do You Think?

There is a saying according to which, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. What this means has been heavily debated by the media at the end of the last millennium, so it’s needless to explain it. The “war between the sexes” has always been an interesting topic for the people who produce […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials

Les Sapeurs: The Dapper Men of the Congo

The Congolese are known to have a good reputation when it comes to style, but a group of men takes fashion to a whole different level and don’t shy away from treating it as their culture. These men are called Les sapeurs. The sapeurs are men from all walks of life: from carpenters to taxi […]

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Fashion History

Carnival Culture: Unmasking the World of Hidden Identities

February is the world-wide month of carnival.  The time of the year when such events take place is not accidental, as they are programmed to happen right before Lent. Carnivals usually imply a party, circus elements and at often times, parades. But, the thing without which carnival season would not be complete are the mask, […]

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Culture Fashion History Style

The Guide to Vintage Clothes. Part 2: Why Should You Buy Vintage?

In our first part of our “Guide to vintage” we discussed how somebody who is interested in purchasing vintage clothes and accessories should proceed in order to get the best vintage pieces and not just “used stuff”. It’s funny how some people consider vintage to be “used” things, and this is why we decided that […]

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Culture Fashion History

The Story Behind The Brand: Gagliardi

Recently, Gagliardi, a brand we are big fans of, published the story that lies behind their brand. It is a worth-read piece that will give you a lot of insight into how a brand is build, how its values are defined and how passion can turn into a powerful business. Here is their story:   […]

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Accessories Fashion History

12 Fun Facts About Neck Ties

Neck ties are the staple of men’s accessories. They come in all shapes and sizes, colors and patterns and have a long history behind them. Bottom line is that we all like them, wear them and enjoy the feel they bring to an outfit. There’s so much we can say about ties that we could […]

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Basic Style Guides Fashion Advice Style

A Guide To The Urban Look (B)

We often talk on the website about how the way you dress transmits a message about what you do, your word vision and much more. Each group of people and each culture (or subculture) has its own signature look that can be scattered into a million pieces, as each individual follows the basic guidelines to […]

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Fashion and Music

Connecting Fashion And Music

So you want to be Jack the pirate. Or Superman, or Spider-man or any other big hero you grew up watching on television and in movies. What`s the way to achieve the state of mind these guys have? How to be James Bond? Well, we always talk about how clothes can make you feel different […]

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Culture Fashion Editorials

A Controversy: Bullied Kids Getting Plastic Surgery For Free

We recently wrote a few articles on plastic surgery, beauty ideals, skin lightening and other similar subjects and in the research for all those articles, we discovered a very controversial issue that we decided to bring up on the blog as well: children getting plastic surgery for free. For free. You read that well: for […]

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Fashion Editorials Fashion History

Criticism And Attacks On Fashion

Over the course of history, fashion has been the subject of a lot of criticism and attacks. Fashion has been the center of intersecting perspectives and different views that have caused diverse scandals across the years. Clothes have been blamed for social disturbances and issues, being considered to promote vanity, loose sexual morality, conspicuous consumption, […]

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Fashion Editorials

Clothing As Symbols

It’s been long since clothes have become more than just practical things. Today, almost all over the world, clothes are a way of displaying one’s individual identity and personality. Style has nowadays become a code. The primary functions of clothes were very practical and primitive. Firstly, clothes used to protect us from climatic conditions, so […]