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Fashion 911!

Danielle McCook, Youthlink Writer

If you are an avid follower of fashion trends and style culture, it would be hard not to notice the reduction in the amount of material being used to create the risqué outfits of today. Shorter dresses, deeper cleavage dips and cut-out patterns are some of the styles drawing more and more attention to parts of a female's body. Hold up, not trying to come off as the fashion police, but with the rising number of rapes and violence against women in Jamaica today, how can an outfit say more but expose less? Less isn't always more.

Polarised

Corey I. Lindner, Youthlink Writer

After several lessons on magnetism during my tenure as a physics student, I have no doubt that opposites attract. Being cut from a different fabric, however, can cause serious repelling when it comes to relationships. If you and your partner seem to be on opposite ends of the magnet, celebrate your differences through your sense of style. Here are four looks you may consider trying.

Want to add more to your look? Put a bow on it!

Jamila Litchmore, Youthlink Writer

While going to school, colourful ribbons in makeshift bows were always poised upon our heads as we bowed studiously at our work. Our bows, then, were our marks of innocence and deportment. What good little schoolgirls we were! With a resurgence of bows today - of all types and sizes - the transformative element of these little coiffed pieces of fabric and trinkets still holds true. Want to add more to your look? Put a bow on it.

About the designer: Karene Brown

Phoenix faces

Arianne Hammond and Stephanie Lyew, Youthlink Writers

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