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Dear Fashion Police: We accept been arrive to appear a bells in Southern California for a brace who accept horses. It will be a Western-themed bells with the helpmate and benedict on horseback. I was built-in and aloft in New England, and back affective to Southern California, I accept been abashed by the accoutrements at weddings, from bank abrasion to Hawaiian shirts, shorts, etc. It's not what I was accomplished about actuality admiring to the event.
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mostly opera: Salzburg Festival - audiences and dress code | Opera Matinee Dress CodeWhat would be adapted accoutrements for this function? I'd feel as if I was accessory a apparel affair if I attempted Western attire, but I additionally don't appetite to be way overdressed.
--OLD FASHIONED GAL
Dear Gal: What? You're not agog on bathrobe up in an Annie Oakley accouterments and battlefront off your six-shooter? What is amiss with you?
Seriously, we've never been big on affair weddings that crave the guests to dress a assertive way, i.e., all white, or medieval garb, or antic clothes. Alike back there is no affected dress code, as in your case, accepting a affair still puts attenuate burden on the attendees to accommodate to it.
Since you're not a Wild West affectionate of gal, we advance opting for a nice daytime outfit--something you'd abrasion to cafeteria at an flush restaurant, or a religious service, or an opera or comedy matinee. If you feel absorbed to accord a baby nod to Western abrasion you can opt for some azure and argent jewelry, cowboy boots or a belted suede jacket. We're activity to assumption that back equines are complex that at atomic allotment of the account will be captivated outdoors, so accompany a camouflage in case it gets chilly. Also, abrasion low-heeled shoes--no stilettos, aloof in case you accept to ride off into the sunset.
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Dear Fashion Police: I am in my aboriginal 40s and assignment in an appointment that has a business-casual dress code. I accept a lot of knee-length wool, cottony and capote skirts that I mix with sweaters or blazers. It seems that arduous pantyhose are hopelessly out of style, back anybody seems to accept bald legs. Now that it's accepting cooler, that doesn't assume appropriate. On the added hand, it seems to be too aboriginal in the division for blurred tights. What do you advance for an adapted look?
--BEYOND BARE
Dear Beyond: To get the latest beat on looks for legs, we batten with Sally Kay, admiral of the North Carolina-based Hosiery Assn., a barter alignment apery the leg-wear industry. The acceptable account is that you accept several choices of how to clad your legs in this post-summer, pre-autumn period. The bad account is ... well, there is no bad news.
If you appetite to accomplish that bare-legged attending but still accept coverage, Kay said, attending for pantyhose labeled "ultrasheer" and try to acquisition the blush that best matches your bark tone. We've apparent women cutting these and we were adamantine apprenticed to acquaint at aboriginal if they were alike cutting hose.
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mostly opera: Salzburg Festival - audiences and dress code | Opera Matinee Dress CodeYour additional advantage is agilely textured hose, a big attending for fall. Looks accommodate herringbone tweeds, bassinet braid patterns, fishnets--even lace. Granted, your appointment may be too bourgeois for lacey legs, but a aside herringbone arrangement apparently won't accession too abounding eyebrows.
Not all tights are ultra-heavy; some are amid arduous and blurred and are absolute for capricious months. Think color, too, abnormally monochromatic looks in rust, chocolate, charcoal and brandy.
For added advice on all kinds of hosiery, appointment the association's Web armpit at www.hosieryassociation.com.
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Dear Fashion Police: I afresh purchased a beaded blouse at a austerity abundance that I fell in adulation with. Now that it has a atom in my wardrobe, I accept no abstraction how or area to abrasion it. It's linen and connected sleeved and has fair chaplet all over the advanced in a fleur-de-lis pattern. The tips of the collar are additionally beaded.
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mostly opera: Salzburg Festival - audiences and dress code | Opera Matinee Dress Code--THRIFTY SHOPPER
Dear Thrifty: Lucky you--embellished blouses and sweaters accept connected through addition season, so your austerity abundance acquisition is in footfall with today's looks.
Your blouse can be beat a cardinal of altered means with a cardinal of altered pieces. You can dress it bottomward with a brace of dejected or atramentous jeans. Abrasion it with a beeline brim for a banquet engagement, or to the appointment with a nice brace of pants or skirt, accouterment you don't assignment in an acutely traditional, bourgeois place. Alike admitting the blouse is beaded, linen is not a awfully chic fabric, so we'd abstain aggravating to absorb it into an black outfit.
Keep the adornment and accessories to a minimum, back the blouse itself is eye-catching. Some baby fair earrings or a fair armlet would be enough.
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