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A little fashion never hurts.


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Caption: To add insult to an injury, you're destined des·tine  
tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines
1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic.

2.
 to commit fashion faults for at least a few weeks. Ugly casts. Frumpy frump  
n.
1. A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable.

2. A person regarded as colorless and primly sedate.
 crutches, riot so fast! Keep the fashion police at bay with Broken Beauties, which provides orthopedic chic with arm slings, crutch crutch (kruch) a staff, ordinarily extending from the armpit to the ground, with a support for the hand and usually also for the arm or axilla; used to support the body in walking.

crutch
n.
 pads, and cast and crutch covers in eye-catching prints. Even the packaging is cool--Sling Peps are wrapped like lollipops, Arm Candy cast covers look like giant pieces of taffy Taffy

Welshman who “stole a piece of beef.” [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring Gould, 72–73]

See : Thievery
, and L'eg Boll cast covers arrive in Chinese takeout boxes. Plus, they won't break the bank. Go to brokenbeauties.com.
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Title Annotation:Short Stuff
Publication:Girls' Life
Date:Feb 1, 2004
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