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Author Archives: Imogen Lamport

Support Frocktober

Join Me In Some Frocktober Fun

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 30, 2017Leave a comment

What is Frocktober? Throughout October, the Frocktober campaign invites women to band together, don their most darling dresses and have a bit of fun while raising funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation Did you know that there is currently no early detection test for ovarian cancer? Did you know that in Australia alone, one…

How to wear a high colour contrast when you're not high colour contrast

How to Wear a Multi-Coloured Item When You’re Not High Colour Contrast

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 29, 20173 Comments

I love colour (as regular readers will be aware) and I don’t have a naturally high colour contrast (ideally I’m physically more in the neutral plus 1 colour camp).  But I like to wear more than one colour in patterns as they are often more versatile than a colour plus neutral print, and have found…

Choosing Top Lengths for Skirts and Pants

Body Proportions, Body ShapesBy Imogen LamportSeptember 28, 20173 Comments

Hi Imogen. I have always heard that tops for skirts should be a bit shorter than tops for pants. My question is, how do you make this work when trying to put a capsule wardrobe together since tops should be able to work with both pants and skirts. I know you can tuck them in,…

How to wear the off the shoulder or cold-shoulder trend in cooler months

How to Work the Off the Shoulder Trend In Winter

Fashion TrendsBy Imogen LamportSeptember 27, 20175 Comments

The “cold shoulder” or “off the shoulder” trend has been big the last summer or so and continues on into the cooler months. So if you love this trend (and it’s great for those A shapes who want to add a nice horizontal line across the shoulders to balance hips), here is some inspiration.  …

Why It Matters How Much Skin You Expose in the Workplace

Dress Codes, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 26, 201715 Comments

Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I were asked to comment on the question of “how much skin is appropriate to show in the workplace”.  Now we are aware this can be quite a contentious as there will be some wildly differing views on this topic depending on your culture, your work environment, job,…

How to Add Colour To Your Neutral Outfits Without Looking Like a Clown

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 22, 20175 Comments

So you’re a bit scared of colour and you tend to wear black and grey and then combinations of black and grey as you’re just not sure how to add colour and you really don’t want to look like a clown. Now neutral outfits in black, white and grey abound on our city streets and…

13 Essential Email Etiquette Tips You Need to Follow

13 Essential Email Etiquette Tips You Need to Follow

MoreBy Imogen LamportSeptember 21, 201714 Comments

How many emails do you receive each day? How many emails do you send each day? I remember when I first started getting emails (back in the 1990s) and it was super exciting (remember that movie You’ve Got Mail).  Who was communicating with me?  That little ding that my computer made had me interested to…

Dressing Tips for the Dominantly Relaxed Personality For Evening Wear

7 Dressing Tips for the Dominantly Relaxed Personality For Evening Wear

Dress Codes, Occasion Dressing, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 20, 20179 Comments

The style that those with a highly relaxed, natural and more casual personality style find hardest to wear is evening wear. All that fuss, uncomfortable clothing (and possibly underwear required), high heels, highly groomed. Do you really have to dress up? Does it really matter? Are these a couple of questions you ask yourself? If…

How colours communicate

How You Can Use Colours to Communicate For You

Colour, Colour Psychology, Reader Questions, Videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 19, 201712 Comments

Have you ever thought about how colours communicate?  What is their mood and how does your mood influence the colours you choose?  How about the energy of colours and what that expresses to the world? This is the topic of this video discussion with Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe. The Energy of Colour The…

7 Beauty Tips I Wish I’d Known A Long Time Ago

Beauty, Grooming, Hair, MakeupBy Imogen LamportSeptember 15, 201713 Comments

1. Be Kinder to Your Hair Washing hair twice – saves on washing as frequently and so having to blow dry as often, saving your hair from drying out so much (plus that time factor too in the morning). I always wondered why there was that “rinse and repeat” instruction on the back of shampoo,…

Why Orange Will Never Be the New Black

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 14, 201711 Comments

Orange, a secondary colour that sits between red and yellow on the colour wheel has both a warm overtone and a warm undertone. No matter which you way you alter it, adding black to shade just makes a deeper orange, white tints it lighter, grey softens it, yellow makes a yellow-orange and red makes a…

How to Have the Perfect Wardrobe of Shoes

Accessories, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 13, 20174 Comments

What are the different kinds of shoes you need to have in your shoe wardrobe? There is no one right answer to this questions, but here are some important considerations when deciding what to include in your shoe wardrobe. Weather and Season Depending where you live in the world and how you spend your time,…

How to love everything in your wardrobe

How to Love Everything in Your Wardrobe More

Shopping, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 12, 201713 Comments

How can you love everything in your wardrobe that much more? Is it even possible? In this video, Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss a technique to make sure that what you buy is what you love, so that you do feel excited and inspired by your wardrobe each day. Use the…

Inside the Broad Museum LA

Inside The Broad Museum Los Angeles

More, Travel and PackingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 8, 20172 Comments

On my trip to Los Angeles, California, I took a trip to The Broad, a contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. The museum is home to more than 2000 works of art and holds one of the most prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art worldwide. It’s a free museum (though…

Why you should well

Why You Should Dress Well (Hint: it Can Make You Smarter)

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 7, 20176 Comments

Why Do You Need Style? Clothes and style are shallow. They are unimportant. Appearance shouldn’t matter as it’s what’s inside that counts right? Style matters, because your intellect and personality are not what people see first. Click To Tweet We have to get past the outside to get to the inside and find out what…

how to pick the undertone of violet

How to Pick the Undertone of Purple

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 6, 20179 Comments

Violet (technical name for purple) is a colour like teal that can be worn by both warm and cool undertone colouring. The difference is that cool undertones can wear all violets, and warm undertones can only successfully wear the warmer end of the violet spectrum. So which is which? Consider the Colour Wheel As violet…

Managing the Transition from One Colour Palette to Another

How to Manage the Transition from One Colour Palette or Season to Another

Colour, Videos, Wardrobe, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 5, 20179 Comments

How do you manage moving your wardrobe from one colour palette to another? Why Your Colour Palette May Change Directions (or Seasons) You are growing older year by year and your colouring has softened with age (yes it happens to all of us) and Jill and I have discussed where you may go here. You…

Making a classic style garment feel more relaxed and casual

How to Make a Classic Garment Suit a Casual Lifestyle

Drape, texture and sheen, Fabric, Personal Style, Prints and PatternsBy Imogen LamportSeptember 1, 201719 Comments

I’m an H shape, this means that straight (pencil) style skirts suit my figure much more than flared ones (this is also true for 8 Shapes). Pencil skirts are traditionally classic garments. They originated in the suit and are synonymous with the business world and the corporate office. I don’t work in one of those…

How to Thrift Shop Like a Pro

How to Thrift Shop Like a Pro

Shopping, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 31, 201717 Comments

Op Shops, as they are known in Australia, Thrift stores as they may be known outside of this wide brown land, are a fantastic place to find clothes and accessories. Why is this? Well not everything is tired, worn out and old (yes there is some of that) as so many people have unworn garments…

Learning to crochet with crochet coach

Learning to Crochet with Crochet Coach

More, OutfitsBy Imogen LamportAugust 30, 20177 Comments

I’ve always enjoyed creating things and was taught to knit at the age of 6, sew soon after (with my 10th birthday present a second hand sewing machine), but crochet is something I’d never learned. How I Learned to Crochet That was, until now. I like knitting in winter while watching TV in the evening…

Owning your style and some of the internal processes to feeling fabulous

Owning Your Style – Creating Fabulous Outfits for You

Accessories, Body Shapes, Reader Questions, VideosBy Imogen LamportAugust 29, 201718 Comments

How do you feel about your style?  Do you feel fabulous, ok or not great?  How do you feel about what you wear?  Do you own your style? In this (20 minute) video Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss some of our own feelings about these questions and where the answers and…

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