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Making a classic style garment feel more relaxed and casual

How to Make a Classic Garment Suit a Casual Lifestyle

Fabric, Drape, texture and sheen, 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 those…

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…

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…

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…

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

shopping, FabricBy 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…

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…

Lifting my Style Game: A Daily Outfit Photo Experience

Personal Style, outer-wear, outfits, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 3, 201728 Comments

Today’s guest post is by Jill Chivers, my friend and colleague and regular video co-presenter here at Inside Out Style Blog. Jill is a speaker, writer, coach, professional facilitator and workshop leader and avid movie watcher.  She is also an advocate for conscious consumption and created the world’s first online program for women who want…

how to dye leather boots and shoes

How to Dye Leather Shoes

Accessories, More, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 2, 20175 Comments

I love my navy leather boots, in fact I’ve loved them to death (they have gotten old and tatty looking), so I hunted high and low for a replacement pair of navy leather boots, to find none that fit my requirements. Instead, I found a pair of lovely nude leather boots that I decided to…

how to wear and tie a pashmina shawl for a more formal occasion

6 Ways to Wear a Pashmina Wrap Over an Evening Dress

AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportJuly 27, 2017Leave a comment

Need to find some new ways to wear a large rectangular pashmina shawl over your evening dress? When travelling if you want to add some variety and interest to your outfits pashmina style shawls are a great way of adding colour (and warmth) over your evening wear. Taking 2 or 3 scarves can make your…

How to dress up your lbd in multiple ways

How to Create Multiple Looks with a LBD

Accessories, outfits, Reader questions, travel, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 26, 20178 Comments

Hi, Imogen. I love reading your blog posts. Please use an upcoming post to address this “puzzle” for me–multiple formal looks from one dress. We’ll be cruising the Panama Canal in February and there will be 3 to 4 formal nights. Being gone 2 weeks, I have to get multiple uses from what I pack.…

Why Do My T-Shirts Get Holes in the Bottom

Why Do My T-Shirts Get Holes in the Bottom?

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 25, 201742 Comments

I was once in a client’s wardrobe doing a wardrobe therapy session and the smell of mothballs was overpowering. She had them all over her closet, hanging everywhere. I asked her if she had a serious moth problem and she said, absolutely, let me show you! Then she pulled knit top after knit top, t-shirt…

The formula you need to create fabulous outfits every day - click here to see the formula in action

This is How to Put Together a Fabulous Outfit In Minutes

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 20, 201713 Comments

Putting together a stylish outfit everyday doesn’t have to be tricky.  In fact I’ve come up with a simple formula that you can use over and over for all different kinds of outfits. When choosing clothes for an outfit you will want to take into consideration things like: Level of Refinement Principle of Volume Body…

Easy DIY Button Necklace - make this necklace - instructions - click here

How to Make a Viktor and Rolf Inspired Button Necklace

Accessories, MoreBy Imogen LamportJuly 19, 20176 Comments

  Last year at the media opening of the amazing Viktor and Rolf exhibition I was sitting behind Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the curator of the exhibition and he was wearing this Viktor and Rolf denim jacket. I loved the button detailing on it and I decided that I wanted to replicate it in some way and…

Discover the treasure trove of fabulous fashion and finds at Origen Imports in Melbourne and Malvern

Step Though the Looking Glass to Origèn Imports Boutiques

shopping, MelbourneBy Imogen LamportJuly 13, 2017Leave a comment

Shopping professionally for a living (and having done it as a hobby since I was a teenager) I’ve got a lot of experience in this area. There are many “high street” or “chain stores” that you can find at every mall.  And sure they are useful to find some basics, it’s often much harder to…

My Style- Scarves - tips for wearing scarves as part of your outfit

My Style: Scarves for Winter

Personal Style, AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportJune 29, 20179 Comments

Accessories are great for adding interest and a hero to your outfit.  They can provide additional colours and contrast to an outfit really easily. Plus, accessories don’t care what size you are.  And who doesn’t love that about them? As I’ve discussed before, I’m a cold person (not cold in an unfriendly way, but cold…

How to choose shoes based on the level of refinement - what to look for in shoes if you want to wear them to work vs more casually

How to Interpret The Formality of Your Shoes

Accessories, dress codes, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJune 28, 20171 Comment

  When you think about choosing a pair of shoes, you want the shoe to work with your outfit as  whole.   When deciding which pair of shoes to wear, it’s worthwhile being able to quickly interpret the formality of the shoes. For example, if choosing a pair of oxfords (brogues) there are different elements…

Tips for creating a budget and how to work out what to shop for particularly if you like to be in control - click to find out more and watch the video

Budgeting Tips for the Control Freak

shopping, Reader questions, videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJune 27, 20178 Comments

  In this video discussion with Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe we delve into a reader’s question on the topic of wardrobing and budgeting for “control people”. Jill relates to being a “control person” (aka control freak) in having a sense of stability in knowing exactly where everything is and exactly But you don’t…

Dealing with a 3D body in a 2D Fashion world - finding clothes that fit

Why Living with a 3D Body in a 2D Fashion World Makes Shopping Such a Nightmare

shopping, Body Proportions, Body Shapes, Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJune 22, 20176 Comments

  Say “Aye!” if you are frustrated by shopping because what looks great on a hanger doesn’t look great when you get it into the change rooms and try it on your body? We are led to believe that all women LOVE shopping.  That all we want to do is shop til we drop, day…

Is Caring About What You Wear Shallow and Wasteful?

Is Caring About What You Wear Unimportant?

Personal Style, shopping, videosBy Imogen LamportJune 20, 201710 Comments

  Is All Fashion Frippery? Is fashion shallow? Is caring about what you wear unimportant? Is buying clothes wasteful? We have to wear clothes as we don’t live in a nudist society. There is so much diversity in the human race and in cultures, yet we all wear clothes. So why is fashion demonised so…

Prints and patterns

What to Wear: Prints and Patterns, Getting the Value and Contrast Right

prints and patterns, Colour, Fabric, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJune 15, 20174 Comments

No matter the print, whether it’s florals, animal, abstract, ikat, check, geometrics or stripes, finding prints that relate to your value and value contrast will make your outfit look so much better on you. Just as with colours where you should wear the colour rather than the colour wearing you. You should be the one…

Your Colouring and The Ageing Process

Colour, Reader questions, videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJune 14, 201720 Comments

The ageing process changes many aspects of your life, from body, to lifestyle and how you approach style.  And then of course there is colouring too, which is the topic of the video in this post as Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I discuss how colouring changes with the ageing process (and show…

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