FASHION PARADISE BLOG

Gone are the days of having to look suited up and uptight at work. Thank heavens clothing styles, manufacturers and the work-place have come to a very happy agreement that looking great means feeling great too -- so take that uptight look and throw it out the corporate window. Fashion Paradise has put together a terrific ensemble that will give you the professional style you want to uphold in the work-place but with the look and feel of ease and comfort that your sweet bod has come to recognize as "just right", and since the workplace usually comes with a lunch break (and if you're our kind of gal ... after work cocktails,) we thought you might appreciate how to look this great outside of the office too. Hey, let's face it, we've all gatta work - and thanks to Fashion Paradise, you'll know how to "work it".

I have always been intimidated by and in total awe of French women. Their perfectly toned, slender bodies are always impeccably dressed with clothes that fit just right - expensive jackets with intricate seaming are worn over sophisticated tops in rich colors that follow the slight curves of their torsos. Tight, dark wash jeans (never without embellishment, mind you, be it dull bronze studs, teeny silver jewels, antiqued silver zippers on the back pockets, or some abstractly feminine pattern either stitched, patched, or dyed on one leg) or perfectly fitting black or grey dress slacks outline slender yet muscular legs and give way to very classy shoes - tall, black, pointy-toed boots; red pumps; brown ballet flats with pink flowers and script stitched on. And then there are the scarves - every color and pattern imaginable, and NEVER matching any other article of clothing they are wearing too closely; instead, they complement the outfit by providing a contrast or a needed pop of color.