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The allure of fashion is its cyclical nature. Recently, there’s been a shift in the fashion world. The resurgence of vintage clothing. This comeback goes beyond mere nostalgia. It represents a burgeoning appreciation for quality, uniqueness, and sustainable consumerism. Vintage fashion, often mistaken for retro fashion, is not merely about mimicking old trends. It’s about reviving and celebrating authentic pieces from past eras, each carrying its unique narrative. The charm of these garments lies in their timeless appeal, the stories they tell, and the lasting quality that sets them apart from fast-fashion pieces. In this article, we’ll take you through...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, STYLECASTER may receive an affiliate commission. Sunnier weather and warmer temps have arrived, which means beach days, camping trips, and outdoor adventures are on the horizon. After winter, frolicking in the sun is certainly an appealing thought after we’ve holed up indoors for so long. While we don’t want to bum you out before you pack your bags and hit the trail, you should know that significant research shows the more time spent outdoors, the higher your chance of skin damage. And while the ever-popular...

-Mom never told me scary stories. She told me stories about everything else: trips to the beach in the family van, her brothers’ friends always at the house, sitting at the table in shifts, eating, talking, and stinking like pirates, the bags and baskets bursting with oranges, onions, tomatoes, shrimp, lemons, eggs, rice, crabs, fish, mangos, live chickens, which Grandpa brought home to feed the ravenous pack of hounds that were his offspring. She told me everything, down to the last detail. The tastes, smells, textures of her childhood, the first business she started when she was just a teenager,...

Enlarge / Google's smart home ambitions are exactly the kind of thing Willow and Home Assistant are trying to help people avoid. (credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Getty Images) Big Tech voice assistants are struggling. Alexa is Amazon's biggest money-loser, Apple's Siri is mired in organizational dysfunction and cautiousness, and Google is leaning hard into every kind of AI except its own Assistant. The open source, privacy-minded Home Assistant, with perfect timing, aims to step into the void with a local-only voice assistant. [TAG1]An ESP-32-BOX device from Espressif. (credit: Espressif) There's one big problem: Home Assistant doesn't yet offer any hardware you...

Everyone knows that books can be adapted into movies. It happens all the time. But did you know they can be adapted into graphic novels, too? In this series, I’ll be taking a look at classic novels and their illustrated counterparts to determine what each did well, what each did wrong, and how they approach the same story decades apart and in such different media. Grab your walking stick and don’t forget your pocket-handkerchief: today we’re heading to Middle Earth to explore J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 children’s book, The Hobbit! Leonard Nimoy did a pretty fair job of summarizing this one,...