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Fashion: £74 for an entire winter wardrobe at Forget Me Not trust shop Oct 15 2009

This has been a tough year for retailers, but there’s one sector enjoying a boom amid the economic gloom – charity shops. Perhaps that’s not surprising when it’s possible to get an entire ‘new’ winter wardrobe for less than £100, as HILARIE STELFOX discoveredRead

Fashion: Trish Chettleburgh gets a mini make-over Oct 15 2009

WE asked for your beauty problems and offered to bring in the experts to solve them. Today we’re featuring reader Trish Chettleburgh in our mini make-over series.Read

Fashion and beauty: Mary Locker's mini-makeover Oct 08 2009

WE asked for your beauty problems and offered to bring in the experts to solve them. Today we’re featuring the second in a new series of mini make-overs.Read

Fashion: Knitting together is the new fashion Oct 08 2009

Knitting has shaken off its old fashioned image and is the new way to make an up-to-the minute individual fashion statement. HILARIE STELFOX reports on a new knitting group in HuddersfieldRead

The history of knitting Oct 08 2009

Knitted socks were found in an Egyptian tomb dating from 300 AD. However, with early artefacts it’s difficult to tell whether garments were created using two needles, as in traditional knitting, or by using one needle (naalbinding).Read

Fashion and beauty: Win £200 worth of cosmetics Oct 08 2009

TO CELEBRATE the launch of the new Max Factor cosmetic counter in Boots, Huddersfield, we’re offering Examiner readers an exclusive opportunity to win a hamper of beauty goodies worth £200.Read

Solving your beauty problems Oct 01 2009

We asked for your beauty problems and offered to bring in the experts to solve them. Today we’re launching a series of mini make-overs featuring readers who wrote in for help.Read

Wearing jeans is not in Andy Hirst’s genes Oct 01 2009

It’s Jeans for Genes Day on Friday, but there’s one person who won’t be wearing the ubiquitous garment, even for charity, and that’s the Examiner’s Head of Content, Andy Hirst. A member of that rare species – People Who Hate Jeans – he was called to account for his prejudice by fashion writer HILARIE STELFOX who was given the task of showing him the lightRead

Catwalk celebration boosts morale for model patients Sep 24 2009

IT TAKES courage to step out onto a catwalk in front of 450 people, particularly if you’ve never done it before.Read

Fashion: Breast cancer patients on the catwalk at Cedar Court, Ainley Top Sep 17 2009

IT COULD be strongly argued that ‘real’ women make the best fashion models.Read

Fashion: Asda’s Asian fashion is ready to take away Sep 17 2009

This week Asda launched the UK’s first mainstream Asian clothing range in many of its major stores, including Mill Street West, Dewsbury. HILARIE STELFOX takes a look at the ground-breaking collectionRead

Fashion: Designer Kirsty Spencer to show work at Kirkwood Hospice shop, Byram Street Sep 17 2009

GREEN clothing designer Kirsty Spencer, featured on this page last week, has been invited to show her work at the Kirkwood Hospice shop in Byram Street.Read

Fashion: Kirsty Spencer has recycled fashion all stitched up with an ethical collection Sep 10 2009

The fashion industry is facing increasing criticism for hastening environmental disaster and abusive working practices in developing countries. However, Huddersfield designer Kirsty Spencer produces ethical fashion for a generation brought up with recycling. Hilarie Stelfox reportsRead

Fashion and beauty: Out with uniforms and in with style - college girls prepare for a new chapter in their lives Sep 03 2009

Thousands of Huddersfield 16-year-olds entered the world of sixth form college this week - leaving school uniforms behind. To celebrate, Hilarie Stelfox took three newly-liberated students for a make-overRead

Fasion & Beauty: Taking style advice from teenage personal shoppers Aug 27 2009

MY PROBLEM, according to the Offspring, is that I’m still dressing like a teenager.Read

Beauty from top to toe Aug 20 2009

BRITISH spa brand Elemis has launched a new Exotic Lime and Ginger Hand and Body Duo in the brand’s Exotics range, which contains eco-friendly ingredients.Read

Health and beauty: Walking back to happiness in the great outdoors Aug 20 2009

The health benefits of ‘green’ therapies such as exercising and working in the fresh air are being promoted by a project to boost the physical and mental wellbeing of women in Kirklees. Hilarie Stelfox reportsRead

Charity event in Kealen’s memory Aug 13 2009

A CHARITY swishing event in Huddersfield is being hosted by an Almondbury woman who lost her sister to cancer.Read

Marie plays a hat trick of millinery mannequins Aug 13 2009

WHILE buying up supplies for her new hat shop, designer Marie Flanagan came across a collection of hat blocks and trimmings from the workshop of royal milliner Philip Somerville.Read

Fashion and beauty: Scholes youngsters hit the fashion catwalk Jul 30 2009

Small children often have big imaginations and EMMA DAVISON found plenty of proof of that when she was invited to Scholes to see a fashion show with a difference. The confident models strutting their stuff on the catwalk were just four and five years old.Read

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