Sentences with phrase «for years i dressed»

For years I dressed like an old woman in mourning (head - to - toe black with a bun to match) and I used clothing to hide my body and become invisible.

Not exact matches

ModCloth has raised $ 48 million in investment capital over four rounds of funding.Portland, Ore. - based designer Bernie Dexter has sold dresses through ModCloth for three years.

If, after years in Lululemon, a staffer is suddenly showing up for work kitted out like the boss, maybe they're dressing for the job they want... somewhere else.

Thanks to the treaty, she says her four - year - old El Monte, California - based company is able to sell products at a cheaper price than it would cost customers to rent tuxedos and formal dresses for little tykes.

So Carson thought it made sense to double her orders for spring dresses from the previous year: «I'd never seen so many polka dots in my life,» she jokes.

The all - cotton pinpoint is comfortable and wearable year - round, it's an excellent value for a traditionally - made dress shirt, includes plastic collar stays, and the point collar is the most versatile style you can get

«The core Rent the Runway business, which was renting dresses and accessories for special events, is on this nice trajectory, that's probably a couple - hundred - million - dollar business in the next few years,» he says, «But Unlimited, this subscription business for everyday fashion, is a far, far bigger additional opportunity.»

For his MBA Show episodes, he dresses in a gray flannel suit, a 30 - year - old hand - me down from his father.

Harvard Business School classmates Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss co-founded Rent the Runway six years ago as a dress rental site for women.

Why she's awesome: Best known for inventing the wrap dress, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) in 2005 and became its president a year later.

This wasn't quite as big of an issue in America, but for many years, the Burberry brand was the standard issue dress as a status symbol of thugs and gangs all across England.

Last year, men celebrated the event by donning dresses and high heels to hike up a mountain in Guangdong Province, and five female activists were arrested for planning a protest against sexual harassment.

Simon pumped more than $ 20 million over the past two years into small tech companies, among them a dress - rental service for weddings called Union Station, and Fashion Project, a marketplace for deeply discounted clothes.

In a hilarious blog entry today, the billionaire describes his best dress - up moments over the years — many of which have served as marketing stunts for burgeoning business ventures.

«Having been in uniform for so many years and knowing how to press your uniform and taking pride in how you dress was really helpful in menswear,» he says.

For Meas, it took two years after her wedding to sell her wedding dress, and Ward had a similar experience.

When Ikea took two weeks to expand a U.S. recall of a dresser to China last year, for example, users were in an uproar, questioning whether the company truly valued its Chinese customers.

In years gone by, buying clothing over the internet was only for the fearless, with most shoppers unwilling to take the risk that a dress or a pair of shoes would fit poorly or look terrible on them.

Nor is it clear whether Voorhis knew that his nemesis, the Chandler family, had for several years been in business with Dresser Industries.

[1] Example: My two year - old niece received a Frozen dress, cape, jacket, and book for Christmas this year.

One often cited reason for the stock market rally at the end of the year is window dressing by investment funds — i.e., investment funds support prices at year - end in order to prettify their results — which has the purely coincidental side - effect of boosting bonus payments, which are often calculated at the turn of the year.

I went from a size 8 to a size 6 in a month (I'm now a size 4), Lisa Earle McLeod lost 2 dress sizes and got back the flat tummy she hasn't had for 10 years.

Its the same for Jews during «Winter Break» (which is always Christmas to New Years... no matter how you dress it) and Good Friday... which was given off to us at my school.

Monks have been dressing like this for years.

Father Paul, currently serving for a second time as provincial in Great Britain, mentions attempts by religious communities in recent years to live in smaller houses without religious dress.

Each year on Giving Tuesday, Dress for Success holds a #GivingShoesDay campaign, which in the past few years has amassed more than 17,000 pairs of shoes donated through the organization's 145 affiliates around the world.

Just over five years ago I stood on the stage of a dimly lit chapel waiting for my very best friend, dressed in white, to come stand beside me as...

The new dress or hat, the new car, the new toy for the children — all turn old in a few weeks or, at least, a few years.

Church leaders like DeBonville have harrumphed about declining dress standards for Sunday service for years, while others say God only cares what's in someone's heart.

It becomes more of a challenge when it involves someone who is going to have gender reassignment and they can't take the dress off... they must live as a woman for at least a year.

As the bride's ten - year - old daughter processed glumly down the grassy aisle between the rented chairs, wearing a dress too small for her, a boom box played Axl Rose's «Sweet Child o» Mine.»

I will say, I am a stay at home mother with not much income, I don't have dressy clothes and can't afford dressy clothes for my kids either, so when we found a church where we could dress down, we haven't missed a Sunday in three years.

In another book of that same period we read: «The rage for equality has so blinded the last hundred years that every effort has been made to obliterate the divergence in role, in conduct, and in dress.

The entire city of Calgary turns out for the Stampede every year and everyone is dressed in jeans and cowboy boots.

I've been making homemade mayo (so much healthier) and homemade Caesar dressing with it for years, but I never thought to make it all at once.

I've been making this dressing as part of a go - to salad for years.

i have been using the Newman's Own Light Raspberry Walnut dressing for about 3 years now.

And then there were a handful of awesome opportunities throughout the year to promote DIY Vegan, which is always super fun, and some photography projects that included stocking my fridge with homemade salad dressings for Plant - Powered Ddressings for Plant - Powered DressingsDressings!

I haven't used bottle dressings for nearly 2 years only this one.

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

Here in Northern VA, it's that time of year when people really don't know how to dress for the day.

I've used the base for this dip over the past 2 years to make dressings, sauces, vinaigrettes.

My grandma used to make them in the summer to enjoy year around ~ My Mom made just a few pints of them in the summer ~ she used to use red and green food coloring, (even number of pints in each color), along with the red & green cherries in the pints, so as to dress up the pickle plate for Christmas dinner and through out the Holiday season!

I have made this for years...... but for the dressing I mix 1 jar of Ortega Mild Taco sauce with 1 cup of Whipped Salad Ddressing I mix 1 jar of Ortega Mild Taco sauce with 1 cup of Whipped Salad DressingDressing.

As a child my favourite salad dressing was the smelliest blue cheese a restaurant could provide, albeit an unlikely choice for a six year old.

This has been a hit in my family for years... I use Western dressing, which I hate on regular salad but it works in this recipe.

My aunt has been making this for years only she makes homemade french dressing with sugar oil apple cider vinegar and ketchup.

This exact recipe, including the Catalina dressing has been used for over 20 years.

I have been making this for years with the Catalina dressing everyone loves it and I should have never given out my recipe.

Southern Buttermilk Salad Dressing is a deliciously easy, flavorful, homemade, Southern - Style salad dressing that our family has made for years to enjoy over our favorite salad greens and Dressing is a deliciously easy, flavorful, homemade, Southern - Style salad dressing that our family has made for years to enjoy over our favorite salad greens and dressing that our family has made for years to enjoy over our favorite salad greens and fixings.