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Creating Focus on Your Assets

Accessories, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 11, 200916 Comments

Focal points are created by detail on clothing – whether it’s colour, shiny fabrics, pockets, distressing on jeans, ruffles, pattern, belts, beading or jewellery. You can use detail to draw attention to your assets and away from areas you’d rather people didn’t notice.     You can see from this collection how the details draw…

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Tips for Keeping Weight Under Control

Body ImageBy Imogen LamportAugust 10, 200913 Comments

One of the comments received on the recent post about my lovely friend Jan was from Kelly,Kelly said… Jan looks fabulous, and she is a real inspiration to me…having just turned 51, I am struggling lately with what’s appropriate for my age…I don’t want to look too young nor too dowdy! Questions for Jan: She…

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Which Watch to Wear

Accessories, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportAugust 7, 200910 Comments

Recently blogger Embellissiment asked how to choose a watch to go with outfits, and whether watches are ‘jewellery’ or something else.   Basically, I think that watches are an accessory but like a shoe, a more basic, every day essential accessory (yes I know that your mobile phone has a clock on it, but a…

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The Movie of Your Wardrobe

Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 5, 200938 Comments

No, this is not a movie plot, but a good way of working out what you should wear. With every good movie there is always a hero (this is the non-sexist, all inclusive version of hero, that includes heroines), there is always a Villain, and to make the story cohesive and understandable, some Supporting Acts.…

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Jeans and Jewellery

Accessories, Personal Style, Style Tips, Stylish ThoughtsBy Imogen LamportAugust 4, 200920 Comments

Metscan asked about Jan’s attitudes to jewellery and jeans – here is her reply – FYI – in New Zealand, jandals are their word for flip-flops which in Australia we know as thongs! “In respect to jeans and jewellery, I think you have to take care when you with putting the two together , it…

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Evolution Makes Women More Attractive

Beauty, Body ImageBy Imogen LamportAugust 3, 20098 Comments

Reading this article on ABC News website about the results of a recent study: Good news girls: you’re getting more beautiful. But the forecast isn’t so rosy for men. Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become more attractive, while men are not likely to advance in the looks department at all. A…

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More Style at a Certain Age

Body Image, Body ShapesBy Imogen LamportJuly 31, 200925 Comments

  Here again is my gorgeous friend Jan Fisher, Image Coach, from New Zealand – who is heading fast to 60! Red is one of her favourite colours and she wears it well! Her style is either a skirt with a knit top and often a jacket, or pants and a knit top with a…

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What Colour Shoes to Choose?

Colour, Style Tips, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 30, 200936 Comments

Have you ever heard of the term Visual Grouping (we group like with like to make it easier for our brains to work through all the millions of bits of data it has to contend with second by second)? This principle can help you when deciding on a shoe colour to wear with your skirts…

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Jewellery Ideas for the Busty

Accessories, Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJuly 29, 200910 Comments

Reader Jamtart asked recently for some ideas on what kind of jewellery would suit her – she’s petite (5’1″) and busty – and wanted some ideas. I suggest some pieces that are larger in scale, but not heavy in dimension – so in all price ranges, here are some ideas.   Firstly, from Wendy Brandes…

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How to be Stylish at Any Age

Body Shapes, Image Consulting, Personal Style, Style Tips, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 26, 200916 Comments

I’ve had quite a few requests from my lovely readers to do some posts on 50+ dressing, so rather than me do up another polyvore, I thought I’d bring some ‘real life’ 50+ into my blog.     Let me introduce you to my gorgeous friend and colleague Jan Fisher – who is an image…

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I’ve Had a Makeover!

Colour, Image ConsultingBy Imogen LamportJuly 25, 200919 Comments

To celebrate my 200th post last week, I decided that I needed a makeover for my blog – so I engaged the services of the lovely Katie Lane from Lemon Cherry Blogs to make me over!   So here is my stunning new look – I hope you like it as much as I do.…

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Staying Cool and Modest in Summer

Accessories, Body Variations, Style Tips, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 23, 200916 Comments

I’m really struggling at the moment to find spring/summer clothes that don’t look too young for me. I don’t know why but a lot of stuff looks too fancy or ruffled, and that’s just not me 🙁 I always end up feeling too warm in the warmer months, because I never quite get a good…

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How to Flatter Smaller Breasts

Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJuly 23, 200916 Comments

Bras are my nemesis. I seriously have no boobs. At all. Shaped A cups are too big. If I wear an A cup I have to stuff the cup or else it caves in. So, I wear sports bras and other soft cupped bras (when I can find them). I don’t mind having no boobs…

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How to Wear a High Neckline with a Large Bust

About Imogen, Accessories, Body Variations, Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportJuly 21, 200914 Comments

  So, you may be aware that I generally advise against wearing a high neckline when you have a larger bust, as it makes it appear to be even bigger and start just underneath your chin.   But sometimes we all want to wear high necklines, for example, it’s winter here at the moment and…

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How to Find Your Balance Points – For Necklines and Jewellery

AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportJuly 21, 200934 Comments

Often, when I’m with a client, they’ll tell me that they have some necklaces that they like, but never wear. When they bring them out to show me, we discover that they’re just not hanging in the right spot for them – and as soon as we put them on one of their ‘balance points…

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How to Choose a Necklace

Accessories, Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJuly 20, 200911 Comments

  When I wrote about wearing larger scale necklaces to distract from a big bust, I had some comments asking how did I choose the necklace to wear. So to start with today – I will show you a few choices I make and why I do so.  There is a concept called Relate Shapes…

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My 200th Post!

AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportJuly 18, 200927 Comments

Well I’ve made it to 200 posts! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my readers for stopping by on their busy days. I love your comments – so please do comment. And also thank you to my loyal followers – if you’re not one and would like to become one please click the…

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How a Large Necklace Can Make Your Bust Look Smaller

Accessories, Body Variations, VideosBy Imogen LamportJuly 14, 200933 Comments

  People often comment on my collection of larger scale necklaces and say that they’re ‘my thing’ as I always wear them. But they’ve only become ‘my thing’ since I discovered the power of a large necklace to make my bust look smaller. How does this work? It’s that old optical illusion – which centre…

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Finding the Right Shapewear for You

Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJuly 13, 200912 Comments

I was asked to help find shapewear for one of my lovely readers. She has problems as she’s a 38DDD (or a 38E in some places), finds that many garments roll down and create unsightly bulges, and also that her breasts sometimes escape underneath the underwire of her bra. How to Find the Right Shapewear…

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What’s Your Side View – Round or Elliptical?

Body ShapesBy Imogen LamportJuly 12, 200924 Comments

Did you know that we have a lateral body shape, as well as the regular “horizontal” body shape (what we call “body shape“) and also a vertical body shape (also called body proportions).  Your lateral body shape is your body in profile or the side view. Along with our front view/body shape, we also tend…

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Even Models Aren’t Small Enough to Fit Designer Sample Sizes

Body ImageBy Imogen LamportJuly 12, 200916 Comments

Surfing around the net and I came across this article from The Times online about UK Vogue Editor Alexandra Shulman, who says she’s now retouching photos of models to make them look bigger as the sample clothes designers send to be featured in the magazine are tiny, too small to even fit models as slim…

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