The peep-toe shoes (a style that’s slowly but surely making its way back into the limelight), pink manicure, and rosy blush on her cheeks add more subtle feminine touches.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
27 Jan. 2026
Overall, guests were enthusiastic about the new direction of Chanel couture, which was light and feminine.
On the left: a photograph of a blurred womanly figure, her white dress smeared into an avian or angelic wingspan, her head eerily effaced, allowing the forest behind her to show sharply through.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.
Her girlish pout, tiny waist and generous bust were often more appreciated than her talent.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Dec. 2025
As mainstream culture embraces girlish femininity alongside an ahistoric raw-milked nostalgia for a trad past, the sheep becomes a totem of the submissive, sacrificial role for women and girls in a new gender landscape.
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