THE BODYCON MINI DRESS

The past week I’ve spent hermitting in my room with a rickety space heater on full blast (unsurprisingly, smelling of burnt cat fur) and a blister pack of medicated cough lozenges close at hand. You would think that being sick in bed would free up quality time to catch up on finishing up all the

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A WHITE SHIRT FOR OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH

    May is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and this week HerCanberra.com editor Amanda asked whether I would get up in a white shirt outfit for a good cause, namely, the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation White Shirt Day. I love the idea that the ubiquitous white shirt, that every woman all over the world has

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BLACK ON BLACK

  As I’ve been indulging my craving for bright colours and prints recently, getting up in all black once in a while feels like a novelty. I think we generally avoid all black outfits because, when going all over tonal, it’s so easy to end up looking like you’re in a cat suit, or a

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TAILORED SHORTS

  I love a great tailored short, but it seems like they are so often overlooked. I don’t know many people that actually own a pair that they seriously wear. People tend to see them as boring or too mature, and not quite qualifying as office wear (because, well, they are shorts, but that’s just

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Weekend Comfort Clothes

  The word ‘comfort’, when placed in the same sentence as ‘clothes’ probably brings to mind snuggies and yucky uggies. But it doesn’t have to be that way, does it? I won’t go so far as to can the heels, but in my opinion a similar degree of comfort can be achieved with an oversized

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Outfit: Denim & Disco

I would hazard a guess that I’m not the only one who gets performance anxiety about wearing tight legwear, the obvious reason being that with all the material clinging to the skin, there’s nowhere for those unsightly bulges to hide. Hence my reluctance to try a pair of the ubiquitous American Apparel disco pants. However,

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