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How to Wear Pantone’s Pale Dogwood (i.e. pale pink)

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How to Wear Pantone’s Pale Dogwood (i.e. pale pink)

Pantone, the world’s leading color trend forecaster, has chosen Pale Dogwood as one of the big colors for spring/summer 2017. The thing is, the exact shade is truly just a starting point, a suggestion for the shade and intensity deemed to be popular. In 2016, Pantone declared Rose Quartz, a slightly richer version of Pale Dogwood, as the color of the year. So now that we’re into the second year of essentially pale pink’s popularity, we should start seeing it in the stores. Here are a few tips from your friendly, Denver image consultant on how to wear these beautiful [..] read more

5 Outfit Ideas for a Professional Valentine’s Day Look

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5 Outfit Ideas for a Professional Valentine’s Day Look

Valentine’s Day is almost here! I love dressing up for work even though this year it’s on Saturday…So if you like dressing for it, start planning now for Friday the 13th. Yikes, we better wear pink and red to ward off the bad luck that day, right? Even if you’re not superstitious, dressing in colors of the love holiday can brighten your spirits. Today, I want to give you some ideas for color combinations you might already have in your closet and never thought of wearing. First, tomato red and blush pink makes a much unexpected color combination. I’m seeing [..] read more

Dress in Pink (Carefully) for the Cure

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Dress in Pink (Carefully) for the Cure

I belong to an organization in Denver called the Alliance of Professional Women. Quite a few members are participating in the Race for the Cure, on October 7. I was at a board meeting tonight and tomorrow is our monthly luncheon. They mentioned that the participants are going to try to wear pink to the luncheon tomorrow. It got me thinking, “hmmm…pink for business…be careful!” While I make it a practice not to make big rules about dressing, I think pink is worth talking about. The problems with pink for business are: It’s associated with Barbie. (Okay, so she’s an icon [..] read more