Dear Fashion Vortex Clients, Readers, and Friends,
What happened to winter in Boston? We are two months into the season and there is hardly any snow. We can’t help wondering if we will get it in March or April.
Regardless of the weather, it’s been a great start of the year for Fashion Vortex highlighted by orders of Bruno Rossi bags from Australia. These customers have previously owned Bruno Rossi bags, but were not able to buy them in their home country. The deerskin leather that is a signature of Bruno Rossi bags captures hearts and wallets of sophisticated women all around the globe. Here is what one of them said:
“I have a Bruno Rossi bag. I bought it to travel with not realizing how fabulous it would make me feel every time I use it. It is an absolutely joy to own- classy, fabulous quality, understated elegance, chic. Sometimes I get it out just to touch it…”
After these orders we couldn’t help but enable international ordering capability on the Fashion Vortex website.
We are excited to receive all the positive feedback on the Fashion Vortex newsletter and hope that this one will be just as informative as others. Here you will find tips for looking and feeling well, inside and out. Let’s be in charge of our health and style in 2012 and experience life in a new way.
Is Generosity the Secret to Successful Relationship? Read on.
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we wanted to share with our Readers an interesting article that gives insight into secrets of successful marriage and a fulfilling relationship in general. We hope you find it informative and enjoyable:
“From tribesmen to billionaire philanthropists, the social value of generosity is already well known. But new research suggests it also matters much more intimately than we imagined, even down to our most personal relationships.
Researchers from the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project recently studied the role of generosity in the marriages of 2,870 men and women. Generosity was defined as “the virtue of giving good things to one’s spouse freely and abundantly” — like simply making them coffee in the morning — and researchers quizzed men and women on how often they behaved generously toward their partners. How often did they express affection? How willing were they to forgive?”
Read full article by Tara Parker-Pope of New York Times here.
STYLE UP!
New Year, new resolutions? We love the no-nonsense style resolutions that stylist Doreen Dove offers in her blog. We found them very useful and wanted to share with our Readers.
Top 4 Style Resolutions
Resolution #1: Edit your closet
If it’s been years (let’s be honest here) since you overhauled your closet, now is the time. The more organized your wardrobe is, the easier it will be to put together outfits, not to mention how much more room you’ll have once you get rid of all of the items you no longer wear.
Resolution #2: Embrace quality over quantity
While it may be tempting to buy that $10.00 top (or three of them), what’s the point if it will just fall apart after a few washes? This year, resist the urge to impulse buy or spend on things you know won’t last just because the price tag looks good. Instead, spend money on quality items that are timeless and will last for years, look great and become the backbone of your wardrobe.
Resolution #3: Accentuate the positive!
Stop thinking something is wrong with your body and start recognizing something is wrong with your clothes. Keep trying things on until you hit on an item that complements your shape. If you have doubts, step away from the register!
Resolution #4: Embrace color!
A closet full of black, gray, navy and beige is fine, but a bit boring. Resolve to brighten things up with some key pieces in bold shades. Winter is a great time for this – add a red or purple scarf to your cold weather accessory arsenal. Color is a great way to inject some new life into your wardrobe and spice up your day-to-day outfits.
For a full blog post on style resolutuons, please visit Doreen’s blog - The Organized Wardrobe
HEALTH & BEAUTY TIPS
Let’s talk about posture
In this issue of the newsletter we would like to share an insight into something we rarely pay attention to – our posture. According to Natasha Dashkovskaya, an Egoscue method certified Posture Alignment Specialist, posture is one of the most effective but neglected methods of diagnosing one’s musculoskeletal health. For many years Natasha worked in the computer field and suffered all sorts of musculoskeletal issues including back, hip, and knee pain. When she was introduced to the Egoscue method of postural fitness several years ago, the relief she experienced was so impressive that she decided to change her profession and help people to achieve similar results.
A good posture allows us to stand, walk, sit and lie in positions where the least strain is placed on supporting muscles and ligaments during movement or weight-bearing activities. That is, unless we live a motion deprived life. Then our body shuts down the unused muscles as a survival adaptation mechanism – use it or lose it. But once in a while even the most sedentary people need to get up from that office chair and perform tasks involving the unused muscles – pick up a heavy object, move furniture, or climb the stairs. Since the assigned muscle is shut down and not capable of performing this task, the body borrows another muscle to do the job. With repetitive misuse, the compensating muscle moves bones from their proper positions and posture becomes compromised. When skeletal structures are misaligned, muscles are forced to continually compensate for the postural deviations changing their length and tension and pulling bones out of alignment even more. It becomes a vicious cycle.
The good news is our postures can be fixed and with proper posture fitness program muscles can be re-trained and lost functions restored at any age. A person trained in theEgoscue method can evaluate posture deviations and back problems of each individual and solve these problems through a series of simple but very effective individually selected strengthening, stretching, or positioning exercises.
For more information please take a look at the Upright Posture Fitness website andblog, where Natasha describes Egoscue method and how simple exercises can restore alignment and functions of the whole musculoskeletal system and rid you of hip, knee, back problems, and chronic pains.
Stay active. Live pain free.
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