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  • Pops of Colour! - Spicing Up B&W Outfits

    GUEST BLOG By Rosie. Nothing says chic like a classic black and or white monochromatic outfit. It’s so simple yet oozes sophistication. Being a Melbourne girl myself, it’d be remiss of me not to wear all black at least 75% of the time – it’s basically the law! However, some days wearing just bla...
  • Fifty Shades of Black

    It was pre year-10 formal and I had $50, some wild ideas and a few hours at the shops to find my outfit. It hadn’t gone well. I’d been through a dozen ‘not the one’ dresses – and, out of ideas and with the shops ready to close, had bagged a plain black dress which (in a rush) I hadn’t even bother...
  • LBD

    “I don’t own a little black dress.” Said no girl ever. Ahhhh yes, the LBD, fashion’s divine gift to women. That so chic, so seductive, so intriguing, so ‘feel-great-in-your-body’, ‘smooth-out-the-bumps’, ‘I-didn’t-think-about-this-at-all-but-still-look-like-a-fashion-God’, effortless, little blac...