Fashion By Stacy!
Ladies: Fear not, I am on my way to help the less stylish…
 Lucky Magazine truly puts the “hop” in “shop”. If you’re limited on time, as I am, and only allocate a small window to read one of your numerous subscriptions, I urge you to devour this one. The first time I discovered the stickers “mark your favorite” page I was in hog heaven. No more dog earring my favorite pages I wanted to remember to return to. Lucky recognizes two key facts: 1. Many of us are on budgets, but don’t want to compromise style as a result of lack of funding and 2. All of us fashionistas with good fashion sense want to help others in need. And each month this mag. offers us solutions and opportunities to appease both 1 and 2. “Do Good While Shopping” invites us to shop for everything from jewelry to decorative hand soap and a percentage of the cost is donated to a different charity each month. In August, for example, the Lauren Merkin cork “eve” clutch I purchased (I needed a cork clutch anyway. My purse collection had lots of leather, but alas was light on cork go figure!) donated 30 percent of the cost to the National Resource Defense Fund. The “Lucky Breaks” section offers 100 shopping sprees often worth $100 each to readers who log on www.luckymag.com/deals and enter for a chance to win. Then the last page of Lucky is indigenous to the general area you reside and shop in.
The Websites
These are THE sites that guide me when my fashion sense is M.I.A! Go fug yourself offers up irreverent humor to appease the most acerbic soul, while with Net A Porter I restrict myself specifically to the “sale” site. Even on sale a pair of Jimmy Choo stilettos can still run upwards to $450 dollars hence why I set parameters for myself. Shopbop is tragically hip and cutting edge and The Tip Jar is a local gal from Los Angeles who offers praise to many up and coming brands other sites are overlooking. Via these sites numerous discounts are shared and you can’t put a price on that! For everything else…there’s Mastercard (ha, very busy cracking myself up right now. Are you rolling your eyes yet?)
Hollywood Fashion Tape You know something has “made it” when this obscure, fashion altering essential debuts at Bed Bath and Beyond. Hollywood Fashion Tape comes in a variety of sizes and for as low as $6.95 Pamela Anderson cleavage can be yours even if only for the evening. The line also offers Hollywood Clear Bra Straps and Hollywood Tag Tamers, so clever, practical and useful huh?
The Audrey Hepburn Rule Ahh the trendsetters, trend setter! If Audrey sported it, then it means it’s “forever fashionably forward.”
- Tiaras especially after a couple cosmos
- Pencil thin black pants and peddle pushers
- Black turtleneck
- Shift dress
- Oversized sunglasses
- Ballet slippers
- Jewel encrusted chokers
- Full eyebrows
- A great clutch
- Kitten heels
 The Basics Stylistically speaking, I am of the belief that great taste results when a person is able to achieve all important balance. Ladies you don’t need $60 dollar James Michael Star Splendid Moss (you get my drift) tank tops to layer under t-shirts and sweaters. That’s simply not an advisable use of your shopping dollars. By the same token, you don’t need the package of Hanes Men’s tank tops for $6.99 either. I "love" the girls who claim those Hanes tanks fit across their boobs. Maybe those girls are members of the “non boob job” club? But me, packing my 320 cc’s of saline, I’ve ended up with the “side boob” effect. That occurs when I "spill" out of the Hanes tank in a most unflattering way! My advice… Urban Outfitters. All the stores have the same circular table loaded with cotton tanks in every color of the rainbow and the deal is 2 for $20 which you can’t beat. These tanks are easily layered and serve as an ideal “base” to showcase everything from blazers to blouses. www.urbanoutfitters.com
Regarding the best panties… Honeydew Intimates. They offer a mesh boy short panty that retails for $10 to $12 dollars and come in every color combination you can imagine. AND they don’t leave a panty line. Hallelujah! www.honeydewintimates.com or www.shophoneydew.com
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