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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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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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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

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Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. While she was there, she learned about how secondhand clothing is shipped to Africa and then ends up in landfills. “We What is upcycled clothing?

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What Not to Wear to an Interview

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As cliché as it might sound, you have to learn to dress for success. Do dress to look your best… Whatever the clothing culture , nothing says success like maintaining your wardrobe. People form an opinion about who you are in the blink of an eye, and once they’ve made that unconscious decision, it can be difficult to overcome.

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Modern Homesteading and the Trend Towards Greater Independence

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The trend towards desiring greater levels independence - and the autonomy, control and flexibility that comes with it - takes many forms.    For those interested in modern homesteading, there are a number of events you can attend to learn more. But there are other aspects to this trend.

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Local Women’s Shelters Wouldn’t Respond, So These Two Friends Decided to Build Their Own

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Even though this finally gave them a stable home, different forms of abuse persisted. She learned about her challenges and her abusive past. In addition to raising money via traditional methods, they’ve also opened a for-profit boutique called Janice Vaincre Boutique to raise money via the sale of clothes and other items.

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For Mi Golondrina, Hispanic Heritage Is More Than a Month

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It is where her company’s namesake took form. Lynch, her parents and three brothers would connect with local people, indulge in authentic foods, learn histories and experience the cultures. Samano, who worked as a seamstress for a clothing business owned by Lynch’s mother and aunt, has known Lynch since birth.

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