Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Winter is always a busy time of the year. Like everybody, you too look forward to celebrate Christmas, New Year and Valentines Day with gaiety. However if the biting cold of the exteriors affects you, your festive celebrations may go for a toss. So keep your wardrobe ready much before winter sets in.
To be in fashion during winter can be quite challenging. The right kind of winter fashion apparel can help you win many admiring gazes.
Some interesting ways to ready your winter wardrobe are listed below.
The most important item for your winter wardrobe is a coat. Choose a coat that goes with everything. It must be of good length and color. With a good coat you can not only keep cold at bay but also look fashionable.
Buy a classically designed wool blend suit. A neutral or black color pant is best for cold and can match any colored shirt. Choose evening dresses which provide more coverage than the summer ones.
Your winter wardrobe is incomplete without winter pants. Always have two types of thick tight fitting denim jeans. A pair of black trousers and khaki must also be kept ready.
Buy warm clothes like blazers, blend sweaters, wraps or pashmina scarves. A scoop neck, v-neck, or boat neck cashmere sweater gives you plenty to choose from.
Accessories like brightly colored hats, scarves, purses, gloves and even mittens must also find a place in your wardrobe. Keep a large purse to carry extra winter items such as lotion and gloves.
Apart from heeled shoes, always have a pair of boots. The boots must rise to just below the knee and can be worn both with skirts and pants. They should be tight to the leg to give a warm feeling.
If you believe in clever layer dressing to beat the chill you can have favorite key pieces from your summer and spring collection. Keep your classic long sleeve button shirts, T-shirts, tights or stockings, classic skirts and brightly colored camisoles ready alongside your blazers and sweaters.
Make sure you buy quality clothes for your winter wardrobe. They will last longer and also serve the purpose. So go for cashmere or Merino wool for sweaters and 100 percent wool for dress pants.
All these together help you beat the cold and at the same time help you make your personal winter fashion statement.
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Do you have clothes in your wardrobe that you have never worn, or are never likely to be worn, since you just cannot make them ‘work’? Do you wish you could open your wardrobe and be confident that you could mix and match any items and still look good? If this is you, then a weeding session with an image consultant could be just what you and your clothes need.
A healthy wardrobe should not only have structure and purpose but contain an easy to use and efficient capsule element consisting of good basic neutrals which, if the correct shades are chosen, can be mixed and matched with many other outfits. Being shown how to make new outfits from your current clothing and accessory range will also help to cut down the cost per wear.
This is fine but, if like many people, you are not only a natural born hoarder keeping outdated and badly sized clothes for that ‘maybe I’ll wear this next year’ moment but find the prospect of discarding clothes unbearable, then enlisting the help and advice of a professional wardrobe weeder could be for you. After all, if you’ve not worn an article in your wardrobe in the last twelve months, it is 90% likely that you’ll never wear it again.
With their experience and in-depth colour analysis training, an image consultant will not only show you which shades of colours really enhance your image but they will also be able to advise on which styles are best suited to your body shape. Either by coming to your house and helping you to sort through your clothes and accessories or by explaining to you at a colour consultation, an image consultant will help you to learn which are the best colours for you and which styles of clothes will make you look your best.
Either at your home or during a colour consultation, they will be able to share their expert knowledge with you and also be able to show you how to bring different outfits together, up-dating them as necessary. Sometimes only simple adjustments are required like adding a more trendy belt, a new handbag or a new pair of shoes.
Not only will an image consultant ‘weed out’ unsuitable clothes but they will also ‘weed in’ new items of clothing or accessories which they would recommend that you buy in order to make your new and improved wardrobe work harder. Working together, you and your consultant will create a working wardrobe of clothes and accessories that will make you feel happy and confident every day.
In the long run you will save time and money because not only will you be able to wear all your clothes with confidence knowing how to mix and match items and accessories to their best effect but you will also have learnt how to buy the styles and colours that will enable you to look your best.
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