Spring in Melbourne is a period of unstable weather. 30C /86F one day, then 17C/62F the next. This makes dressing a little trickier, plus you get those cooler mornings with warmer days. This week for my Frocktober post I’m sharing how to layer summer dresses for spring and autumn, those often more temperamental seasons that…
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Style is something that a lucky few are born with (or appear to be born with) but the rest of us have to learn. Fortunately, you can become more stylish … it’s just not going to happen in a week (or even two, but you can learn a lot in two weeks). Like any…
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How do you make decisions about whether or not you should jump on board a fashion trend or not? For many of us it depends on how you feel about your body, what flatters it and whether or not you are happy to ‘give up’ some elements of figure flattery for the sake of fashion…
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These Stylish Thoughts come from Jodie, of Jodie’s Touch of Style which is a blog for women over 50 Inspiring Style for Many Sizes & Budgets. Jodie shares the real world and everyday styles of herself (50+), her mother Charlotte as her 70+ model and her stepmum Nancy as her 60+ model on the blog and they all…
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Frocktober continues and I’m sharing more dress styling ideas for you to try with your own dresses at home. Please make a small donation to my fundraising efforts to help find an early detection test for ovarian cancers which is a silent killer of many women. Your donation will help save lives. And I want to say…
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My latest Stylish Thoughts contributor is Marie Louise who is one of the two bloggers of The F Club and who also runs a fashion PR business in London, United Kingdom. What is the secret to great style? Clean hair and even better to have been for a blow-dry. What is the one thing you would…
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Hats come in all different shapes and sizes. They were very common back in the 1950s when it was polite and the right thing to do, to wear a hat when outside of the house. Here is the photo I mention in the video that my father took in 1958 at the corner of Russell and…
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Accessories can be a great way of adding contrast in your outfit. You can add interest with pops of colour in accessories and create focal points for which to draw attention and encourage the eye to linger. You can raise your colour contrast. You can raise or lower your value contrast. This is why accessories…
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I was recently asked to share my eyeshadow application technique so I’ve made a short video plus taken photos of each stage so you can get a close-up view of what I actually do. 6 Step Easy Eyeshadow Application See images below for step by step reference. Before you start, consider whether you want to…
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How do I find a hairstyle that suits my face shape? This is the question that we were asked to discuss and share our thoughts on. In this video, Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss the 5 essential questions you should answer before you cut your hair or choose a hairstyle! Face…
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Celebrating Frocktober (and raising money to help fund vital research into finding an early detection test for ovarian cancer). Please make a small donation as it will help save lives. This year I’m styling dresses multiple ways (I don’t have enough dresses to do a dress a day, plus I love the challenge of finding…
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Recently I’ve been asked to cover the topic of hip dips and how to dress them to make them less obvious. Hip Dips are also known as Violin Hips and are most common on the 8 shape, A shape and X shape bodies (but can come on any body shape). They are an indentation…
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It’s Frocktober again and I’m helping to raise much-needed funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation as there is still no early detection test for ovarian cancer (your pap smear doesn’t tell you) and so around 70% of those diagnosed don’t survive past the 5 year mark (scary statistic) as they are not detected early…
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There are many elements of fit to consider. Not only the physical fit of clothing, but also the psychological and lifestyle elements of fit. Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I have discussed the physical elements of fit here. In this video we discuss some of the broader elements of fit such as lifestyle…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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. …
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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