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Wedding Season Essentials

When it comes to wedding season, the outfit you’re wearing is the easiest part! Think about it: By the time you put on your gown or party dress, all the big decisions have already been made. Suddenly, the base layers have the biggest impact on your degree of flawlessness.

So whether you’re the bride and it’s your big day or honeymoon, you’re in the wedding party or you’re on the guest list, Bare Necessities is here to help you be the best dressed you can be. Peruse The Bride Guide or let us escort you right to what you need…

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Personal Style Power Figures

Kim France Writes About Style for Those of Us Who’ve Aged Out of the 18-34 Demographic and Lived to Tell

When your personal obsessions and your paid profession overlap, you’ve hit self-actualization bullseye, and that’s what’s so inspiring about Kim France. The founding editor of Lucky magazine (R.I.P.) and the brains behind the Girls of a Certain Age blog (its motto, “You know who you are,” should win the world’s best tag line contest if that were a thing), Kim has spent her career meditating on her love of fashion in the smartest, most unique and relatable way.

She is as passionate about eye cream and handbags as she is about art and culture. And since she’s 55 and owning it, and it’s her damn blog, she gets to share whatever she’s into, however she pleases. Her personal style and writing voice are both so peerless, we’d be willing to bet you’ll be into it, too. Read just one of her posts (well, finish this one first), and you’ll immediately get it.

Kim kindly gave Bare Necessities an exclusive interview about reaching publishing’s glass ceiling before the floor gave way, picking herself up by her chic platform bootstraps to find herself all over again and what’s so good about growing up. 

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Personal Style

The Best Bras on a Budget

Listen, we love bras more than the average Jane, and we’ll still be the first to admit they can get rather pricey. So while we firmly believe there’s a time and a place for luxury in both life and lingerie, we’re equal opportunity shoppers. Sometimes all we want is cheerful on the cheap, trendy yet thrifty, the best for less.

We checked in with Bare Necessities contemporary buyer Megan Irvine to get her recos for seriously standout bras that, ringing in for under $50 a pop, won’t break the bank. Here’s what she’s loving, now and forever….

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Personal Style Pop Culture

Mother’s Day Gifts to Make You Look Like a Star

Mothers contain multitudes, but there is at least one word that applies to all: prepared. With this Mother’s Day gift guide curated by our Bare Necessities buyers, that’s exactly what you’ll be, too.

A month ahead of her special day, we’ve already put together a list of comfy, stylish pajama presents that will be appreciated by anyone in your life who has earned the “mom” moniker: your own mother, a mother-in-law, all the women who raised you up, the daughter who promoted you to grandma, your wife or significant other, a sister…the more you think about it, the longer the list grows.

She gives her all 24/7/365; this time, the idea is to help her sleep in, kick back and relax. Add breakfast in bed, and you’re the one who comes out smelling like a rose.

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Personal Style Pop Culture

10 of the Most Comfortable Bras at Every Size

When it comes to bras—okay, pretty much all clothing—comfort is non-negotiable now. Think about it: Why should anything we wear every day be even a little bit taxing? Bras are the first thing we pull on in the morning, the last thing we take off at night. And while half of it is getting into the right size and fit, the other half is finding bras so good for your figure, you don’t even notice them.

That’s why we made Bare Necessities buyer Heather Viskovic name names. We talked cushioned straps, the softest and techiest fabrics, underwires tucked in plush little channels and no underwires at all. This week she’s sharing her favorite bras that deliver style, support and a soft touch.

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Confessions Inner Beauty Personal Style Pop Culture

Top 10 Model Confessions with Liris Crosse

Maybe you recognize Liris Crosse from Project Runway, where she was the first black plus-size model to walk in a designer finale runway show.

Could be you’ve heard about her new book, Make the World Your Runway: Top Model Secrets for Everyday Confidence and Success. Filled with straight-talking, hard-won personal advice, Liris takes the rules she uses to own the catwalk and adapts them to real life, no matter what you do or who you are.

She’s also been in countless campaigns for brands like Curvy Couture, is the founder of Life of a Working Model boot camp and is a keynote speaker at mega-events like Essencefest Beauty Carnival.

Whether you already know Liris or not, we assure you: You’re going to want to. Her positivity and presence, confidence and charisma are catching. We got the chance to chat at this past CurvExpo, the preeminent lingerie trade show in New York City. In her exclusive Bare Necessities interview, Liris shares her coming-up story and some of the best advice from her book.

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Personal Style Pop Culture

In Living Coral: We’re Loving the Color of the Year

Sunset on the beach. A frozen peach Daiquiri. Otherworldly reefs.

Coming off winter, this is the stuff dreams are made of, so this season we’re all in on Living Coral, the official Pantone Color of the Year.

For 20 years, the Pantone Color Institute has analyzed trends in different industries, including fashion, art, home decor and travel. Living Coral is said by Pantone to be “animating and life-affirming, with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge.” It plays up the rosiness in every shade of skin, giving a subtle glow to even the palest complexions.

“With consumers craving social connection, the humanizing and heartening qualities displayed by the convivial Pantone Living Coral hit a responsive cord,” said Pantone executive director Leatrice Eiseman.

Whenever the Venn diagram of good looks and real life overlaps, we want in. Check out some of the newest, most flattering ways from Bare Necessities to try this good-on-everyone trend.

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Personal Style

What Makes Wolford the Ultimate Fashion Accessory

It would be a shame to wait for spring to show your legs the light of day. Now is the time to turn to Wolford, the legwear brand as revered for cutting-edge design as it is for real-world practicality. With a luxury handbag-level obsession with quality materials that will endure, there’s no need to prize comfort over good looks again. 

Of course, a heritage that storied doesn’t happen overnight. The founders of Wolford made it their life’s work to create the world’s finest, most innovative hosiery in Austria in 1949 and have since realized that vision in 60 countries.

With a wardrobe of these ace accessories, you’re impeccably, literally covered for anything. Get acquainted with the newest styles and most legendary favorites, because to know them is to fall head-over-heels in love with them (don’t say your friends at Bare Necessities didn’t warn you).

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Inner Beauty Personal Style

Chic, Sexy and Plus Size

For too long, sexy and trendy have been mutually exclusive with curvy. But with the combined force of shoppers who know what they want and brands (ahem) who know how to stock it comes the power to buck business as usual.

Our collection of edgy, gorgeous bra and panty sets is curated to fit and flatter fuller figures. Hot tip: Always keep an eye on fashion-forward brands like Elomi, Curvy Couture, Paramour, Bramour, Sculptresse, Dita Von Teese, Scantilly by Curvy Kate, Goddess and Pour Moi. They really know their way around plus-size style that moves the sartorial needle.

The joy of sets is how these match-ups effortlessly ensure your cutest, curviest Valentine’s Day. (Load up your shopping bag on Bare Necessities, then click “email bag” to drop a hint to your significant other…or, you know, scoop it up for yourself.)

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Behind the Seams Bra Fit Experts Personal Style

She Said, She Said: Bra Likes and Gripes Shared by Women at Every Size

Few places is the grass greener than on the topic of chest size. At some point in life, it seems almost every woman thinks she’s gotten a raw deal with the genetics she’s been dealt.

That’s why we had two Bare Necessities bra geniuses—one card-carrying member of the Itty Bitty Committee, one bodaciously busty—sit and compare notes. Turns out our design director Moira Nelson (who wears a US size 34H) and Bra Fit Expert Kristyn Polin (she being a 30C) are more alike than different in both their wants and their woes.

Find out what works for them, what doesn’t and what it means for you, wherever on the size spectrum you fall.

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Personal Style Pop Culture Relationships

Valentine’s Day Lingerie, Your Way

We’re a month out from Valentine’s Day, what with all its red rose and chocolate connotations. But as with most things in life, we firmly believe there’s more than one way to play it.

Find your February 14th signature style before it’s too late with a little help from the Bare Necessities buyers, who’ve stocked everything you might want to feel your most wanted, from cuddly-cute pajamas to heart-adorned lingerie designed explicitly (and we do mean explicitly) for the holiday.

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Health & Wellness Personal Style

10 PERFECT SPORTS BRAS FOR ANY WORKOUT

Forget reinventing your life because a calendar page flipped. Call it a resolution or don’t, but working out has always been on the to-do list, and it continues into the new year.

When you’ve already got a drawer brimming with sports bras you don’t exactly enjoy pulling on, our annual guide comes to the rescue! This week, Bare Necessities is crowning both the latest and the greatest MVPs. In one of these all-stars tailored to your workout and your figure, it’s game on in 2019. If the clothes really do make the woman, you’re about to be unstoppable.

Read on to find the reason you’ll love working out this season, then get a move on.

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