Shy Magazine

Month: November 2009

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Fashion

How to Wear Jeans with Style

Photo: Getty Images |
Photo: Getty Images |
Wondering about how to wear jeans that look modern, flattering, and stylish? Check out these tips on how to navigate your way through some of the leading denim trends.
| by Johneen Manning | Nov. 09 |

Dangerous Skinny Jeans & Tapered Jeans

Tapered denim styles draw attention to and accentuate your bottom, stomach and hips, and have the tendency to leave your legs looking like spindly, shapeless sticks. If that wasn’t enough, they also create an awkward juncture when meeting shoes.

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Lifestyle

Getting to Know DC’s Own Tsehaitua “Tubi” Retta

Tsehaitua |
Tsehaitua |
When Tsehaitu “Tubi” Retta was growing up in Columbia, MD, she had dreams of becoming the nation’s first Black female President. “People used to laugh at me and I would get so frustrated. In my head, I’d be like, okay, watch.
| by Jan F. Lee | Nov. 09 |

You’ll see,” she recalls-and we just might. Driven with a passion for policy and justice, this Fall Tubi (pronounced “Too-bee”) will be studying Law at the University of Maryland. She currently works for the NAACP’s National Director of the Youth and College Division. “Pretty much this whole summer I’ve been helping to plan the [NAACP] Annual Convention in New York.

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