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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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Los Angeles Celebrity Stylist Kim Apodaca Reveals How to Dress Well for Zoom Calls

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In March 2020, we learned how to dress for Zoom calls from the shoulders up. In June 2020, we learned to morph a sweats uniform into summer work-casual athleisure, and in June 2021, we finally gave away most of those stuffy, in-person business suits. Clothing has a scientific connection with our minds,” Apodaca says.

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Can Dopamine Dressing Make You Better At Your Job?

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The chemical plays a role in several key functions, like mood, learning and attention, and it’s also connected to reinforcement behaviors. A 2012 study published by the University of Hertfordshire Press links “how clothing and mood don’t just influence others, it reflects and influences the wearer’s mood, too.”

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10 Products to Improve Your Business Travel Experience

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all learned to work, live and play in a new normal wherein virtual connections have become more prevalent. Here are 10 accessories and clothing items that may help your business travel be less stressful. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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Menswear With Meaning: Fashion Brand INHERENT Is Dedicated to Improving Men’s Mental Wellness

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While the idea of opening a men’s clothing store had come to Draper before, it didn’t fully take shape right away. He had also always been into fashion, from looking at stitching patterns to learning about where items were milled. This article originally appeared in the November/December issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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Keep a Classic Approach to Your Brand

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But while the company flourished in Europe—according to a Harvard Business Review article written by Gehring, “From 2000 to 2006, while Hilfiger’s U.S. You can go from everybody wearing your clothes to nobody wearing your clothes surprisingly fast. What lessons did you learn? But you weren’t having this problem in Europe.

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The Secret Life Of Colleagues

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Many remote workers have learned to create a facade — concealing the real state of their home offices. Recently, the Guardian published an article featuring images of real versus fake virtual backgrounds (based on readers’ photographs depicting both set-ups). In 2020, a scientist shared the reality of her Zoom background on Twitter.

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