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How To Look Great For Football Sunday

With the Super Bowl coming up, you might have the need for a sporty look for a party, but yet still want to look feminine. Here is a guide on how to pull off a football party look. Click below to see the the full article.

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Look Appropriately Girly for Football Sunday

Just because you’re hanging with the boys for the big game, doesn’t mean you should look like them. See how to look pretty without trying too hard

 

Look Appropriately Girly for Football Sunday

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Step away from the CheeseHead and sweatpants. Here’s how to look appropriately cute for that football party, without being called a girly girl.

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Some Little Known Uses for Your Old Tights

Sometimes tights seem almost disposable, don’t they? Many women know the pain of spending good money on a great pair of new tights only to have them run during the first wear. Here are a few tips for keeping them lasting longer but after that, read some tips for things you can do with the tights that you won’t get a chance to wear again, either because of a run or ladder or because they’ve started to sag.

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Avoid Runs in Your Tights:

  • Don’t put on your rings until after your tights are on. Rings often catch in tights.
  • Check your nails. Snags can happen with the brittle end of a nail, too. (Fingernails and toenails!)
  • Gather them up before putting them on and do so slowly.
  • Buy good quality tights. Cheaply made ones definitely don’t last as long.
  • Hand wash. They don’t typically fare well through the dryer, especially when washed with other items.

Some Suggested Uses for Ruined Tights:

Just because you can’t wear them, this doesn’t mean you can’t find uses for them:

  1. Tie back your hair with it when around the house (for face-washing, cleaning, etcetera)
  2. Have trouble washing your back in the shower? Try putting the soap in the middle of a leg from a pair of tights. Grasp one end of the leg in one hand and one in the other. With the soap in the middle, you can now do a better job of getting your back washed.
  3. Tie tights up into a few knots and work great for use as a bath puff.
  4. Do as in #3 but use it for cleaning. It’ll do a nice job on things that need a scrub but that you don’t want scratched and it helps get things into a great lather.
  5. Put a leg over a long ruler and use it to clean behind and underneath the fridge. It works a lot like those static cloths that attract dirt.
  6. Fill a leg of a tight or a stocking with potpourri and use for a drawer or closet sachet.
  7. Use old nylons to store onions (they last longer) or garlic.
  8. A pair of tights or stockings often works great, in a pinch, as a lint remover or animal hair remover due to its static effect.
  9. A nylon tight with an elastic can work in lieu of a dryer vent for catching lint.
  10. Stretch them over a wire coat hanger and use to scoop dead bugs and leaves from your pool.
  11. They work great as a filter / strainer for things like paint.

 

Freelance blogger Sharon Hurley Hall invites you to check out Pamela Mann, which offers a wide variety of tights, stockings, holdups, socks, and legwarmers.

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Spotlight on La Perla Lingerie

La Perla is a luxurious Italian designer lingerie label which aims to make women look, and feel, a million dollars. Sensuous and sexy, this exquisite label has launched many collections over the years which have all been hugely successful in the world of fashion due to the company’s dedication to superbly crafted high quality designer pieces.

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Product Range
On offer is a wide variety of beautiful cuts, styles and colours so you can find the perfect fit for any occasion. Whether you require matching sets, corsets, camisoles, bodysuits, slips, or garter belts and hosiery, La Perla has a wide range of elegant garments, all of which are skillfully made from high quality fabrics. In addition to lingerie, it also caters to a wide range of gorgeous nightwear and swimwear pieces.

Background
La Perla was founded in 1954 by the talented Italian fashion designer Ada Masotti and immediately became a front runner in the world of fashion, opening boutiques in the fashion capitals of the world, Paris, Milan, New York and London. Very quickly, it became a global success, setting the trends instead of following them and revolutionising the history of women’s lingerie by transforming it from mere functionality to a whole new branch of fashion in its own right.

Setting Trends
Gone were the days of dull and dowdy plain underwear – La Perla introduced women to a new world of intricately crafted original designs with a wide range of vibrant colours and gorgeous styles, as well as new types of fabrics for underwear, such as silk, chiffon, lace, stretch lace, lycra, tulle and satin. The company has remained a global fashion trendsetter ever since due to its ability to constantly evolve ahead of the times with its amazing foresight and innovation, as well as its dedication to perfection in every individual piece.

Quality
In its past and present collections, you will find each item has been constructed with high quality specialty fabrics, for example, leaver’s lace, a type of lace produced on a particular type of loom specifically designed for reproducing high thread counts and delicate intricacies; soutache, a sophisticated silk ribbon sewed on by hand; and frastaglio, an antique type of embroidery, usually used for garments of silk or tulle.

La Perla’s 2012 collections have now been launched and are as always at the very front of cutting edge fashion, featuring a wide variety of alluring, sensual, and beautiful ensembles, all designed to make women of all shapes and ages look absolutely stunning.

A wide range of La Perla lingerie including bras, thongs, bodysuits and chemises can be seen at Fox and Rose

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