As we all know, New Year’s is a time for reflection and resolutions. So, to celebrate the end of 2010, we asked ModCloth employees the eternal question: “What did you learn this year?”

Now that you’ve watched us spill our guts, dish! What did you learn in 2010?

Image via Deborah Allen.

…Where will you be? I’m dreaming of the perfect New Year’s Eve, replete with color, confetti, tulle, high heels, voluminous skirts, sparkle, and smooches!

Check out my favorite retro NYE images to get jazzed for the rapidly approaching year’s end.

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Remember the time you threatened to never read us again? Or the day we all learned how to make hippopotamus tree toppers? Or, our interviews with Amy Sedaris and Anna Sui?

2010 has been an exciting year for the ModCloth Blog, with everything from our big redesign to our first Fashion Week. So, just to make sure you didn’t miss anything, we rounded up some of this year’s most memorable posts…

1. Skants Skants Revolution — All we wanna do is skants! For April Fool’s, we wiggled our legs into our stretchiest sweaters to announce the newest trend in fashion: skants! Like the strangers who witnessed us set up our faux Street Style photo, you responded with both laughter and horror. Relive skants part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.

2. Brief Interviews with Awesome Women — Revisit our interviews with inspirational, kick-butt women such as Mythbuster Kari Byron, book designer Aya Akazawa, Bobbi Brown, The Uniform Project’s Sheena Matheiken, artist-bloggers Caitlin Shearer and Katie Sokoler, embroidery entrepreneur Jenny Hart, and Feministing.com’s Jessica Valenti.

3. Size of the Times — You’ve heard it everywhere—the fashion industry is finally embracing fuller figures! But does the recent popularity of plus-size models mean progress, or is this all just a trend? Read our “Size of the Times” series to find out. In Part I, we discuss the media and women’s bodies. Part II features an interview with our additional size model, Mandy, and Part III expands upon ModCloth’s experience with additional size fashion.

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Earlier this week, we sent a text to our SMS subscribers to find out what your New Year’s resolutions are for 2011.  We narrowed it down to the top five responses and discovered that exercising more, adopting new hobbies, freshening up your style, and quitting bad habits are among your top priorities for the coming year.  As for the other 13%, we received a variety of responses ranging from charitable giving and financial responsibility to no resolutions at all!

Will you be hitting the treadmill? Revamping your wardrobe? What are your New Year’s resolutions?

I’d like to say something genius about this video because it makes me all sorts of delighted, but really, it stands on its own, no upstart’s comments needed.

Instead, I’ll ask you a question. Now that you’ve seen these 1930s-era hypotheses and have weighed in on the iconic style of 2000-2010 in our “Dresses Through the Decades” post, where do you imagine fashion will take us in the new decade that’s about to thunder into our world like a friendly Zeus-ian lightening bolt? Enlighten us with your precocious predictions!

Images via The Whole Hole and Citizen Couture.

Bold, beautiful lips never looked so good! Today’s ambitious trendsetters are trying it all, from ’90s-inspired indigo tones to vibrant orange hues and striking metallics.

As you can see in these photos, plucked from our favorite street style blogs, an attention-grabbing pucker can seriously turn up the volume up on any ensemble. Scroll through to see how these stylish ladies accentuated their gorgeous make-up with complementary color palettes and a flair for the fantastic.

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After sifting through more than two thousand phenomenal entries for our Style Celebration Contest with Kaboodle, it’s time to, well, celebrate! Let’s give props to our three winning Kaboodle styleboard creators, selected by our very own ModStylists!

The 3rd place prize of a $50 ModCloth gift certificate goes to nautical_by_nature:

“Warm Apple Cider” by nautical_by_nature

“What better way to celebrate the holidays than gathered around the fireplace with friends and family, and a warm cup of your favorite holiday beverage in your hands? The deep, rich red and soft tan of this outfit perfectly capture the warm essence of hot apple cider and the company of loved ones, while gold accents bring out the requisite festiveness of the season. Add that to the overall classy, feminine look, and you have the perfect ensemble for this year’s holiday celebration.”

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Jessica Virgin of Vintage Virgin is a stay-at-home mom, thrifting fanatic, and crazy-cool blogger. She’s not afraid to experiment and her outfits show it. One day, she’ll accessorize with a clock-shaped purse worthy of Flavor Flav, and the next, she’ll wear a demure dress with ankle socks. She’s all about exploring her personal style, and that’s why we love her. But blogging and being a mom aren’t all that make this fashionista tick—she’s also working on a preteen novel. Don’t take my word for it. Read her interview to find out her plans for the future, and what would make the perfect romantic date. You’ll also want to take a peek at the first ever namesake romper and wonder at her Vintage Virgin ModCloth picks.

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With a new year full of mystery and potential ahead of us, I can’t help but look to the classics for clues for the coming year. In both music and fashion, I love when “oldies but goodies” and contemporary innovations meet in the middle. In the outfit below, I combined two party-perfect dresses with a collection of ageless accessories. To match, I created a soundtrack for your New Year’s festivities.

Whether you’re chilling at home, or throwing a grand party, I hope you enjoy this Style Soundtrack!

Side A
A production of classics. Those two dresses may be separated by decades, but their accessories bring it all together.

Track 1: Ablaze with Beauty Dress —With its universally flattering hourglass silhouette, this ’50-’60s dress will always be a hot topic.

Track 2: Keynote Speaker Hat —Top off an outfit of any era with a versatile hat that can hop through time like Doctor Who.

Track 3: Eyedust in Dragon Scales — It’s your time to sparkle. Give your wink a twinkle with this glimmering eye shadow.

Track 4: Gold Lion Earrings — These kitty cats will roar in 2011 with you.

Track 5: Ebony and Flow Dress — Some of you pointed out that asymmetry rules the contemporary silhouette, and I agree. Wear this for modern elegance.

Track 6: Arabian Tights — Sexy and statement-making, these tights are right for any year.

Track 7: Wish You Were Heel — Heeled, black Mary Janes. How much more classic can you get?

Side B
These are songs that I could play year after year. Featuring many goodies from Glenn Miller (a favorite since I was 13) to MGMT, and a shoutout to ModCloth’s opening of its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices with Best Coast, this playlist is one for the ages!

What else would you add to this party mix?

It’s time to have your hand in deciding one of the two $100 winners of our BurdaStyle Handmade Holiday Contest! From December 28 to January 3, 1:00 p.m. EST, you’re invited to vote for your favorites from a slideshow of our chosen top 25 entries!

In order to vote, you must be a member of BurdaStyle, but registration is free and only takes a couple of seconds! You can vote as many times as you want, but can only vote once for each submission. So if you’re torn between two faves, vote for both! To cast your choices, just click the above image, and thanks for participating!