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Article: Rules of red: Make magic with your wardrobe to look your sexiest on Valentine's Day
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 8, 2007
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Maybe crimson's your least favorite shade. Or perhaps you're one
of those women who'd rather be caught dead than (clothed in) red.
But Valentine's Day is around the corner, and there's a way --
even for those of us who rarely include this eye-catching color in
our wardrobes -- to do the red thing without looking like toddlers,
strumpets or worse.
"Red is a powerful color -- it is attractive and brings on
excitement," says Kristi Kelley, wardrobe director of the Image
Studios, a consulting business in Chicago's West Loop. "It's a great
color, but you don't want it to be overpowering."
At work, says Kelley, that may mean trading that heart-splashed
novelty sweater for a black suit with ...