The Magic Skirt

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November 23rd, 2009

There was once a lady, sober in mind and sedate in manner, whose plain dress exactly represented her desire to be inconspicuous, to do good, to improve every day of her life in actions that should benefit her kind. She was a serious person, and she had a distaste for the gay society which was mainly a flutter of ribbons and talk and pretty faces; and when she meditated, as she did in her spare moments, her heart was sore over the frivolity of life and the emptiness of fashion. She longed to make the world better, and without any priggishness she set it an example of simplicity and sobriety, of cheerful acquiescence in plainness and inconspicuousness.

One day–it was in the autumn–this lady had occasion to buy a   new skirt . From a great number offered to her she selected a bright colored one with floral prints. It did not match with the rest of her apparel; it did not fit her apparent character.  What impulse led to this selection she could not explain. She was not tired of being good, but something in the texture of the skirt and the color pleased her. If it were a temptation, she did not intend to yield to it, but she thought she would take the skirt home and try it. Perhaps her nature felt the need of a little warmth. The skirt pleased her still more when she got it home and put it on and surveyed herself in the mirror. Indeed, there was a new expression in her face that corresponded to the skirt. She looked at it. There was something almost humanly winning and temptatious in it. In short, she kept it, and when she wore it abroad she was not conscious of its incongruity to herself, but of the incongruity of the rest of her apparel to the skirt, which seemed to have a sort of intelligence of its own, at least a power of changing and conforming things to itself. By degrees one article after another in the lady’s wardrobe was laid aside, and another substituted for it that answered to the demanding spirit of the skirt. In a little while this plain lady was not plain any more, but most gorgeously dressed, and possessed with the desire to be in the height of the fashion.

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What About Cutting Calories to Achieve Your Mini Skirt Makeover?

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October 31st, 2009

This trick is tried over and over again with minimal success when you try to fit into that mini skirt. Let’s see if you fit into this scenario. You are watching what you eat and are trying to eat healthy and make smart choices and are following a healthy weight loss program so that you can fit into that sexy little mini skirt. You are losing a few pounds, but would like to lose more and follow a rapid weight loss diet so that you can wear that mini skirt in two weeks.

So you end up cutting out meals and calories so that you are only eating 3 times a day and maybe 1000 calories.

Your rapid weight loss diet should be a success now. You should be able to lose weight fast and look hot in that mini skirt. Then the worse thing happens. You get on the scale and you are up 3 pounds from last week’s weigh in. What happened? You were on a healthy weight loss program so why weren’t you losing any weight? You are never going to fit into that mini skirt now. What are you going to do?

The answer is that you thought a rapid weight loss diet meant you had to cut out calories and starve yourself so your body would burn fat. You thought wrong. Restricting calories causes your body to increase a hormone that is designed to protect you from starvation. It does this by slowing down your metabolism and forcing your body to store more calories as fat. This is not a plan for you to meet your mini skirt goals.

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Definition of Skirt

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October 16th, 2009

A skirt is a tube- or cone-shaped garment that hangs from the waist and covers all or part of the legs.

In European culture,skirts are usually considered women’s clothing. However, there are exceptions. The kilt is a traditional men’s garment in Scotland, and some fashion designers, such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, have shown men’s skirts.

At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of material (such as pareos), but most skirts are fitted to the body at the waist and fuller below, with the fullness introduced by means of dart, gores, pleats, or panels. Modern skirts are usually made of light to mid-weight fabrics, such as denim, jersey, worsted, or poplin. Skirts of thin or clingy fabrics are often worn with slips to make the material of the skirt drape better and for modesty.

The hemline of skirts can be as high as the upper thigh or as low as the ground, depending on the whims of fashion and the modesty or personal taste of the wearer.

Some medieval upper-class women wore skirts over 3 metres in diameter at the bottom. At the other extreme, the miniskirts of the 1960s were minimal garments that may have barely covered the underwear when seated.

Costume historians typically use the word “petticoat” to describe skirt-like garments of the 18th century or earlier.

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Do Your Drinks Lead to Mini Skirt Disaster?

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September 19th, 2009

Many women dream of fitting into that sexy mini skirt or mini dress and having guys gawk over them. Other women dream of just getting a compliment that they look great in that mini skirt. Whatever your dreams or desires may be this little tip could be the deciding difference between mini skirt success or mini skirt failure. Don’t let these sometimes hidden and subconscious calories ruin your mini skirt dreams. This mini skirt weight loss tip is easy to follow and can make a world of difference with your weight loss.

Avoid soft drinks, juices and other drinks loaded with sugar. Drinks of this type are very high in calories. A twelve ounce soda can contain 150 calories of almost all sugar. Now you may be saying to yourself I drink diet soft drinks. It isn’t just soft drinks that lead to extra calories. Juices, fancy coffees, ice teas, lemonades, etc can all lead to hidden calories that are just sugar. A standard serving size of orange juice is 4 ounces. That is only half a cup of juice. Most people’s glasses are 12-16 ounce glasses and they fill them up. This could mean an extra 250 calories to your daily calorie intake just from one drink. This will sabotage your sexy little mini skirt plans in a hurry. Look at your other beverages and think outside soft drink realm for beverages that you may be drinking that contain hidden calories that are sabotaging your mini skirt goals.

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