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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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…
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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 16 Style Types. The Energy of Colour The…
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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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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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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 can you love everything in your wardrobe that much more? Is it even possible? In this video, Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types 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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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 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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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 16 Style Types and I discuss some of our own feelings about these questions and where the answers and…
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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 twentieth-century…
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Video conferencing has become more and more popular as the technology has improved and with more and more people working from home, it’s important to know what styles of clothes do and don’t work on a video conference call. With Zoom, Skype and Facetime, Go To Meeting and all the other video conferencing technology now…
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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 16 Style Types and I talk about the psychology of contrast and how it communicates so you can use this knowledge to your…
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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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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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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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