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Your style questions answered by Imogen

Your Style Questions Answered: 1

Colour, Fabric, Prints and Patterns, Style Tips, Videos, Wardrobe, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 6, 2020Leave a comment

I’ve been making some Facebook Live videos over on my Inside Out Style page (join me there if you want to watch them live) and wanted to share them with you here too – and I’m also linking here to some useful blog posts that help answer these questions!   Here I’ve compiled a few videos so…

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Selecting the right shape neckline even when it's a high neckline

3 Steps to Flatter a Large Bust When Wearing a High Neckline

Body Variations, Reader QuestionsBy Imogen LamportMarch 5, 20203 Comments

I revisited the body shape guidelines to try and answer a dilemma I have around necklines. I’m 163 cms tall, broad-shouldered, DD-E cup.  After my first baby weaned I developed pigmentation in a large band around my neck and décolletage.  This skin gets red and blotchy when exposed to the sun, even with sunscreen and…

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what to wear when nobody ever sees you

If Nobody Sees You Does it Matter What You Wear?

Personal Style, Style Tips, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportMarch 3, 20209 Comments

If you’re not planning on leaving the house.  You don’t have anybody visiting.  You aren’t planning on seeing anyone. Does it really matter what you wear? This is the topic that Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types and I discuss in this video. Does it Really  Matter What You Wear When You’re Alone?  If it…

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sustainable fashion

5 Ways to Make More Sustainable Fashion Choices

Personal Style, Shopping, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportFebruary 25, 20206 Comments

The Style Conundrum Clothing manufacture is a big polluter of our planet, yet we have to wear clothing for our entire lives.   Clothes also wear out, so they need to be replaced too.  You can’t just buy one set o clothing to see you through the rest of your life! So how do you…

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Getting the Balance Right with Your Colour Contrast

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportFebruary 20, 20201 Comment

Over on my 7 Steps VIP Facebook group, there is lots of talk about colour contrast (and value as well) and how to make sure you have enough colour contrast in an outfit, without ending up wearing lots of different coloured garments (which may not be appropriate in some workplaces or just don’t suit your…

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8 Essential Packing Tips for Your Next Holiday or Business Trip

Travel and Packing, VideosBy Imogen LamportFebruary 18, 20205 Comments

Packing Tips Whether for a holiday or work trip, or any other kind of travel – it’s so easy to overpack and also to under pack. How often do you forget something that’s kind of essential, yet have a bunch of clothes or shoes in your luggage you never get round to wearing? Packing can…

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5 Things to Consider When You’re Doing a Wardrobe Clear-out

Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportFebruary 13, 20207 Comments

The start of a season or the start of the year are often times that you may think about doing a bit of a wardrobe clear-out – cull or reorganization. Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types and I got chatting about this and decided to turn on the camera of our video-conference call and share…

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7 Ironing Hacks for People Who Hate Ironing

7 Ironing Hacks for People Who Hate Ironing

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportFebruary 11, 20209 Comments

Do you love ironing?  I know some who do, they find it like a meditation… but for me, not my idea of a fun time!  So I asked Bianca who is an expert on all things ironing to write me some tips to ease the ironing burden, as I’m sure that others may feel a…

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Australian bushfire crisis how you can help

Australia’s Burning and How You Can Help

MoreBy Imogen LamportJanuary 14, 20202 Comments

This holiday season (summer) in here in Australia has been one of catastrophic devastation with so much of Australia’s bushland on fire… and these are the areas that are populated by both people and our unique native wildlife. This season’s bushfires in Australia have killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 2000 homes…

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How to hem jeans

How to Hem Jeans in 5 Steps Without Losing the Original Hem

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportDecember 30, 201910 Comments

by Helen Spencer from hellosewing.com. So, your jeans are too long for you and you don’t want to go to the tailor and spend money on this simple alteration? That is an unfortunate scenario indeed, but it’s not a reason for you to be down. If you don’t want to go to the tailor then…

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New Year focus word 2020

New Decade New Resolution

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 27, 201913 Comments

Each year I choose a word as a replacement for a series of New Year’s Resolutions. I think of it as a focus word of what I want to do or where I want to go in the coming year. It’s a great reminder when opportunities arise to know if it’s something that will move…

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Best Wishes for the Festive Season and My Year in Review

MoreBy Imogen LamportDecember 24, 20198 Comments

I’d like to take this opportunity to send you my very best wishes for this festive season!  Where ever you are in the world, whatever you’re up to I hope you have a safe and enjoyable time. I would also like to thank you for reading and commenting on Inside Out Style blog posts.  This is…

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10 Reasons You Should Do a 100 Day Style Challenge

10 Compelling Reasons You Should Do a 100 Day Style Challenge

MoreBy Imogen LamportDecember 20, 20194 Comments

Have you heard of the 100 day outfit challenge?  It’s where you shop your wardrobe and for 100 days, you wear a different outfit each day from what you already own in your wardrobe. You can wear the same garment twice, just not the same complete outfit twice.  It’s a challenge to shop your wardrobe…

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How to create your own body shape guidelines

3 Essentials to Consider When Your Body Doesn’t Fit One of the Standard Body Shapes

Body Proportions, Body ShapesBy Imogen LamportDecember 19, 20191 Comment

So you’ve read the body shape guidelines and thought to yourself “but my body doesn’t really fit into just one shape … I’m more of a mix of a couple of shapes”. Fortunately, you are not unusual and you don’t have to worry that nothing works for you.  All you have to do is understand…

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How to Improve Your Style Using Your Sensing or iNtution

Personal Style, VideosBy Imogen LamportDecember 17, 20194 Comments

There are many ways to improve your style – from learning about the shapes and styles of clothes that flatter your figure, to understanding the colours and contrasts that harmonise with your own and not to ever forget how you personality influences your style choices (all of these foundations of style can be found in…

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Why I See Every Obstacle as an Opportunity

More, VideosBy Imogen LamportDecember 13, 2019Leave a comment

I was delighted to be interviewed by Catherine Baxter for her Industry Leader’s interview series and I got to share some of my thoughts on becoming an image consultant and some of the keys to being a great image consultant.    One of the questions Catherine asked about was what obstacles I’ve overcome over my…

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6 Ways to Make Low Value Contrast Outfits More Interesting - Layer similar colours

6 Ways to Make Low Value Contrast Outfits More Interesting

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 11, 20193 Comments

What’s a low-value contrast outfit anyway?  It’s one where the value (that is the technical word for the lightness to darkness of a colour) is similar, and so is an outfit where there isn’t much value contrast. Many feel that low-value contrast outfits can be dull (and difficult) to put together with style.  This is…

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Adhesive silicone bra review

Adhesive Bras – Do They Really Work?

Reviews, Shopping, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportDecember 10, 20195 Comments

One of the great first-world conundrums for women in the era of the cold shoulder, off the shoulder and other strappy top era fashion trends, is what kind of bra to wear with these items? When the temperature is nearing 40C (over 100F) degrees, loose layered and not too many foundations are often a way…

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Pantone Classic Blue 2020

Pantone’s Colour of 2020 – Classic Blue

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 6, 201916 Comments

Pantone has just released their 2020 Colour of the Year – and I’m super happy to announce after a few years of more non-traditional colours, 2020 will be the year of Classic Blue.  It’s a mid-deep blue that is related to navy, but not as dark as traditional navy, and is likely to come in…

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recycle your old sneakers

How to Recycle Your Socks and Sneakers

Shopping, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportDecember 5, 20194 Comments

Old socks with holes in them or just odd socks that have lost their pair? Worn out grubby sneakers? These are often apparel items that just get tossed in the bin, not good enough to give to any thrift store. I mean who wants your stinky old socks and shoes? Rather than throw them in…

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3 Questions to Ask Yourself to Define Your Authentic Style

Be Yourself.  Everyone Else is Already Taken

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportDecember 3, 2019Leave a comment

Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken – another great quote from Oscar Wilde. This is one of my favourite reminders when the toxic witch that is “comparison” enters my head.   It’s way too easy to compare yourself poorly to others in so many aspects of your life, and style is one of these aspects…

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