Where Image Matters
When you know what suits Your Body, Your Personality and Your Style. Looking good every day can be very easy.
Knowing how to dress means you know your body shape, your personality, your clothing values, your colour personality and your own personal colouring.
I have quizzes available to help with most of those questions. So go ahead, have a listen and do the quizzes.
Your Clothing Personality for Women
Your Clothing Personality for Men
Day 61-80 of my #100days100outfits challenge.
During these 20 days, I had some real highs and some real lows and it really forces you out of your comfort zone to expose your life this openly. I know I had a choice as to what I posted and I was very excited about the day I was dancing for my Gold Star medal in Latin ballroom dancing. That day I danced ChaCha, Rumba and one of my favourites Pasodoble.
For those people following me on instagram, they would have seen snippets of my skirt coming together. that was a great day. Sadly day 73 was spent farewelling a school friend. She was an amazing woman and we will never forget Jo (Spencer) Sharp. She was always on social media, commenting and keeping in touch with everyone. She was only pint sized, but very strong willed and always good for a laugh.
Day 75, I did what I never do and that was to stay in bed all day. I had the sorest throat and aching body and could see no value in getting up.
So what lessons did this past 20 days teach me? I truly thought I was going to run out of options yet I still surprised myself.
I’ve realised, in hindsight, that when I am not feeling well I turn to my jeans. Clearly, they are my fall back items. When my brain was foggy I could fashion jeans with a fresh top.
It was very exciting to rediscover my above the knee boots.
Finally, as I am planning my wardrobe to enjoy the final 20 days, I am now thinking about what I really want to wear. It now feels really important again as we remember what we first see and what we last see. I am even holding garments back for the last weeks.
I have to say. It has been a great exercise and i am really lovng what I am discovering about myself, my wardrobe adn what I really really, yes, really do like. It seems that the comments I am receiving, your taste is very similar to mine.
So to everyone who has been supporting me and commenting, thank-you. It has truly made this fun.
Days 40-60
Where has the time gone.
Today is truthfully day 80 so I am little behind my schedule in updating but that happens. here is what I have learned so far from this exercise.
It has been illuminating and I love how for the first time, so many of you are talking to me about what I do and giving me encouragement.
Thanks for all of your support and you really should try it. (maybe without the flat lays and photos every day) you will be amazed at what outfits are hiding in your closet.
As the last word, the other downside to this is that I cant just get dressed. There is nothing more annoying than realising that you have almost dressed and you haven’t photographed the outfit. First world problem of the social media kind
When I started this challenge my thoughts were that I would not have enough clothes to wear.
Luckily as an Image Consultant most of my wardrobe mixes and matches. the greatest challenge has been preparing my clothes each morning, laying out my flat lay, photographing it and hoping that what I have put together will work.
I don’t have the time to put it on, check it, take it off and photograph it. One day though I changed three times as the first two outfits, which were vintage pieces of my Mum’s that I’ve had hanging in my wardrobe for years…just looked horrible. All of that space and time wasted holding onto something that I never wore and now know I never will wser. That very same week they went onto eBay and someone else loves them now.
It is interesting planning an outfit before I put anything on and committing to it. Normally, in the past when I have been getting dressed I put different pieces on and off as my mood takes me, but that is not the case with this exercise. Even down to choosing my necklaces and earrings, although, I will admit, I sometimes add those later.
I have also discovered that the pieces that I don’t really enjoy wearing are those pieces that I picked up thinking I’d try something new. Yes, they fit me and they suit me, but that does not necessarily mean I like wearing them. It has been a big eye-opener for me and something I’m always more careful of with my clients. Pushing someone into something new can work or can massively fail, especially if it doesn’t make them feel fabulous…no matter how great you and the world thinks they look.
So, have a look over days 20-40. I am really really enjoying this process. There are a couple of outfits up there that I won’t wear again. I wonder if you can pick which they are?
Whilst everyone is talking about how wonderful the royal wedding was. how gorgeous everyone looks, how stunning the dress was, how wonderfully elegant Maghan’s mother was….and of course, how entertaining the preacher was. It has also been mentioned about Victoria Beckham refused to smile.
I would too if I was her. Did no one notice that her hands were not in her sleeves. That her sleeves dangled beside her body looking for a purpose. I would not have been too concerned were it not for the fact that those sleeves have cuffs! Cuffs! Cuffs go around wrists. Every time I look at that jacket I have to wonder. If she knew she was going to wear it with her hands out of sleeves, which I admit I have done with a few summer tops a few years ago when split sleeves were in, why include cuffs in the design. More the point, why put boring old buttons on the cuffs. Make them really simple or make them a statement.
So, I have to concede that Victoria’s lack of a smile was due to some form of a wardrobe malfunction. David sew her sleeves shut for a joke? Did they make the cuffs too tight? Or was it a fashion style, that just didn’t quite work.
I’d love to know your thoughts.