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Susan Huston’s Girls&Style,Girls&Beauty Workshop begins Feb.11 at North East Mall for girls ages 8-16. Huston, a frequent freelance style contributor to the Star Telegram and a local fashion show producer, fills the four-week course with lessons in grooming, etiquette and modeling skills, ending with a fashion show at the mall ($165)  For girls ages 12-16 who’d like to focus just on modeling.  Huston offers an advanced modeling class on the same dates ($195) For more information on both programs, call 817 833-3600 or visit www.susanhuston.com

The Star-Telegram listed Girls & Style, Girls & Beauty workshops in an article published Thursday, January 12, 2012.

“Self-image = self-confidence. Want that special girl in your life to be confident, to have impeccable manners and to value good grooming? Then check out the Girls & Style, Girls & Beauty workshops starting Feb. 11 at North East Mall in Hurst.”

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By the time women reach the age of 50, we think we know our bodies well.

But in reality, as we grow older, we have to discover new and innovative ways to dress and care for our ever-changing bodies.

As a 50-plus woman, I’ve realized that I can’t dress the same as my former 30-year-old self. Throughout the years, with my work as a stylist and fashion writer, I’ve learned secrets for dressing for my age and habits to follow to look my best.

Here are some of my favorite tried-and-true beauty and fashion tips, in the form of easy-to-accomplish New Year’s resolutions that every woman age 50 or older should try to make this year.

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BY SUSAN HUSTON
Special to the Star-Telegram

Get ready, North Texas. Pantyhose are back in fashion, thanks to Britain’s stylish Middleton sisters keeping their gazellelike legs properly covered in front of the world’s flashbulbs.

Yes, we’re talking pantyhose. Not opaque, patterned tights — good, old-fashioned nylons. In reality, pantyhose have always been an essential part of many women’s wardrobes. Many business and professional women have never abandoned hosiery (and neither have their work dress codes). They realize that hose makes their legs and the lower body look better by firming the legs and body while hiding legs’ imperfections. But most of us have gone for the comfort of bare legs in recent years, especially those of us in sweaty Texas.

But don’t let the vision of your mom’s pantyhose scare you away from this very wearable trend.

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Indulge magazine readers, contributors and advertisers celebrated the luxury magazine’s 6th anniversary on the Rooftop Pool Deck/Owners Lounge of Montgomery Plaza Luxury Residences with cocktails and a fashion show of Dillard’s evening wear selected and styled by Susan Huston. The Nov. 9 event was presented by Autobahn Motorcar Group Fort Worth.

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Give a Susan Huston Etiquette or Wardrobe Fashion Makeover Gift Certificate.

A nationally recognized fashion and etiquette expert, sought by the Star-Telegram for etiquette advice & fashion styling, Susan offers her clients the “How to” of image consultation.

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In this excerpt from “Hand It To Your Host,” which appeared in the Your Life section of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Susan discusses the importance of hostess gifts:

If you’re lucky enough to have friends or family who spread freshly laundered linens across the guest room bed and set out a special bar of soap in anticipation of your summer visit, return the favor with a gift that gives back to the house. Consider something that will look lovely and help your host entertain future guests.

“They’ve just saved you a lot of money,”Huston says. “They’ve gone to extra trouble.” Not acknowledging that with a small token is bad manners. Huston also suggests taking a present even if you won’t see the owners of the vacation home being entrusted to you.

Susan is featured in the Ask the Expert column in the Your Style section of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. The reader asks what constitutes appropriate attire for an outdoor wedding in March. The wedding begins at 7 p.m. and is to be held at the Dallas Arboretum. The reader wonders if, because it’s before Easter, a spring look would be inappropriate. Susan replies:

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Nothing makes co-workers lose their cool faster than a biohazard in the icebox.

Move over, road rage. Take a flying leap, air rage. Refrigerator rage is all the rage. Who hasn’t wanted to mow down their coworkers for leaving their moldy meals in the office fridge or, worse — stealing your strudel?

The fridge, then, can be a barometer for what’s going on in an office.

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Susan Huston, who teaches etiquette to everyone from the Texas Rangers rookies to young corporate types, says parents have long accepted manners education as being ‘important for girls.’ The prevailing attitude for boys is: ‘”He’s too young; when he’s older, I’ll teach him.”

“But,” warns Huston, “if you wait, it may be too late.”

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