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15 Easy Summer Dresses

There’s nothing better than having a few lovely summer dresses in your closet — they’re cool (versus sweaty), effortless (getting dressed takes one minute), pretty (and feminine) and can take you from day to night. It always feels like a relief when it’s finally dress season. For picnics, adventures and weekend getaways, here are 15 dresses, many for less than $50.
Click or tap on the images, if you’d like!

Shirt Dress

Denim Mini Dress

Sleeveless Dress

Peasant Dress

Batik Dress

Butterfly Skater Dress

Boho Maxi Dress

Polka Dot Maxi Dress

Floral Maxi Dress

Boatneck Mini

Fit & Flare Dress

Cutout Stripe Dress

Cinched Scoop Dress

Abstract Pleated Dress

Midi Shift Dress

 

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The fit and flare dress is my favorite. Which one is your favorite?

Mattel Creates Special Edition Ava DuVernay Barbie

 

Selma director Ava DuVernay has been immortalized into a special edition ‘Sheroes’ Barbie doll. Mattel’s ‘Sheroes’ collection is a celebration of women who have inspired girls and who break boundaries. Needless to say, DuVernay is all of those things and more!

“Barbie has always represented that girls have choices, and this Spring we are proud to honor six Sheroes who through their trade and philanthropic efforts are an inspiration to girls,” Evelyn Mazzocco, general manager of Barbie, said in a press release.

“Started by a female entrepreneur and mother, this brand has a responsibility to continue to honor and encourage powerful female role models who are leaving a legacy for the next generation of glass ceiling breakers,” Mazzocco stated.

There’s no word on if the collection will be on sale to the public as of yet.

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/04/mattel-creates-special-edition-ava-duvernay-barbie/

Happy Belated Bday Miss Ross

Reposted from http://vintageblackglamour.tumblr.com/ March 26, 2015

Happy Birthday

One of the reasons why the work of Nichelle Gainer is so important to me is that it keeps me abreast of all of history that I love regarding all of my favorite artisans!

Happy 88th Birthday Harry Belafonte [March 1, 2015]​! I said it last year on your birthday and I’ll say it again -Thank you Mr. Belafonte for more than 50 years of art and activism behind the scenes in Hollywood and on the frontlines of the civil rights movement. Thank you for speaking up early and often and for still speaking up and enlightening us today.

In this photo, Mr. Belafonte is on the set of ‘The Strollin’ Twenties,’ a 1965 television special he produced, with a script by Langston Hughes. The show, a celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, featured Duke Ellington, Diahann Carroll and other luminaries and aired on February 21, 1966. Photo: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images.

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Happy 78th Birthday Nancy Wilson [February 20, 2015] !! As I note in my book, Ms.Wilson, born in Chillicothe, Ohio, had a definite idea about her place on the food chain in music when she arrived in New York in the late 1950s and took comparisons to icons in stride. “Dinah Washington had a great deal of humor. If I were to describe myself, I’d say there’s a lot of Dinah - Dinah’s humor. I don’t sound that much like Dinah although people compared me to her. I think that the chit-chat, the general humor, is a lot of Dinah. The overall look would be Lena Horne. The sound is Jimmy Scott. So, it’s a combination of things and the bottom line: by osmosis. I became me from listening, absorbing things from everybody.” Photo (1968): National Archives, The Hague, Public Image Archive. Photo Collection General Dutch Fotopersbureau (ANEFO).  

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12 Sweet Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day

1. Chocolate Chip Cookies / 2. Coin Pouch / 3. Kiss Sweater / 4. Heart to Heart iPhone Case / 5. Lady Bug Floral Bouquet / 6. I Love You a Latte Mug / 7. Heart & Be Mine Spatula Set / 8. Love Canvas Tote / 9. Marble Heart Box /  10. Gold Heart Bud Vase / 11. Staub Heart Cocotte / 12. Valentine’s Cookie Cutters

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