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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Inside the Broad Museum LA

Inside The Broad Museum Los Angeles

More, travelBy 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…

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Why you should well

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

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportSeptember 7, 20175 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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House of Dior Exhibition at NGV

Dior J’adore NGV Exhibition – House of Dior 70 Years of Haute Couture

Melbourne, MoreBy Imogen LamportAugust 26, 20177 Comments

A new and exclusive to the National Gallery of Victoria, an exhibition celebrating 70 Years of the House of Dior opens today in Melbourne and having seen it, in my opinion, it’s the best fashion exhibition they’ve ever curated.   Christian Dior was a designer, entrepreneur and visionary who made a lasting impact on mid…

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How to Look Good on a Video Call

How to Look Good on a Video Call

Reader questions, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 24, 20174 Comments

Video conferencing has become more and more popular as the technology has improved. With Skype and Facetime, Go To Meeting and all the other video conferencing technology now part of our everyday life and work, it’s an important thing to think about as you want to come across as credible on screen as you do…

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What is the Contrast of Your Outfit Telling The World About You?

Colour, videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportAugust 22, 20174 Comments

How does the contrast of your clothes communicate? Did you know that wearing different contrast levels (both value contrast and colour contrast) communicate in different ways? In this video Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I talk about the psychology of contrast and how it communicates so you can use this knowledge to your…

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10 things I love about blogging - the benefit of having written Inside Out Style blog for 9 years

10 Things I Love About Blogging

blogging, MoreBy Imogen LamportAugust 21, 20174 Comments

To celebrate my 9th blogging anniversary (that’s a blogiversary in the blogging world), and 9 years in human years is about 42 in internet years (they are kind of like ‘dog years’). I thought I’d say a little thanks and share with you what I love about blogging. 1. Blogging has let me create a…

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Inside Out Style Blogiversary

I’m 9 and I Want to Say Thanks with a Sale

UncategorizedBy Imogen LamportAugust 19, 20172 Comments

I’ve recently gone back to the very beginning of my blog to improve on all the old posts.  In fact, I realised doing this recently that it was coming up to my 9th Blog Birthday and I thought about how to celebrate it. Now today is my 9th Blogiversary and as I wrote about here,…

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Why you should check the care label before you try on (or buy) a piece of clothing

Shopping Tip: Check the Label Before You Try It On

Fabric, shoppingBy Imogen LamportAugust 18, 201715 Comments

  Before I purchase anything (in fact before I even bother to try it on, as I don’t get naked if it’s not got some chance of working), I always, always, always check the label on the clothes for: Fibre content Care instructions Why is this? Well I know that some fabrics pill easily (you know…

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Tips on layering to add interest and style to your outfits - www.insideoutstyleblog.com

More Tips on Layering with Style

outfits, Reader questions, style tips, videosBy Imogen LamportAugust 16, 20175 Comments

Following on from our video on layering stylishly, Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I share more tips on layering (particularly layering in on your bottom half). Lower Body Layering Options Thermal underwear Leggings Jeggings Treggings Boy shorts Tights We also talk about what to wear with your leggings, options include: Tunic tops Long…

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Stylish Thoughts – The Vintage Contessa

Stylish ThoughtsBy Imogen LamportAugust 15, 201727 Comments

Please enjoy the Stylish Thoughts of USA based (European at heart) La Contessa who writes the blog The Vintage Contessa. What is the secret to great style? Being yourself and having fun when you dress yourself!  Make yourself happy and comfortable! Dressing one’s body happens early in the day………make it count! You should feel good…

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