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Update your winter wardrobe

5 Best Fashion Trends to Update Your Wardrobe this Autumn and Winter

Fashion Trends, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJune 6, 20197 Comments

What are the best winter fashion trends worth adding to your wardrobe as they are both functional and stylish? Updating your wardrobe for autumn and winter means adding some fresh layers and current fashion trends that are sure to last a few years, to keep out the winter chill. Depending on where you live, and…

How to choose colour contrast of prints to suit your colouring

Choosing Prints and Patterns with the Right Colour Contrast for You

Fabric, Prints and Patterns, Videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJune 4, 20193 Comments

There are two sorts of contrast – value contrast (how light and dark the colours you put together should be in your outfit – watch the video on that here) and colour contrast – how similar or different the colours that you’re putting together in your outfit need to be. How about your colour contrast?…

choosing the value of prints and patterns

3 Things You Didn’t Know About Choosing the Value Contrast of Prints

Colour, Fabric, Prints and Patterns, Videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMay 30, 20191 Comment

How do you select prints and patterns that work well with your personal value contrast? If you’re new to the subject of value contrast, it’s worth reading these posts first, so you can discover your value contrast and see how it’s important when putting outfits together. Value is the technical colour word that means how…

How to Choose Prints and Patterns that Go With Your Colour Palette

Colour, Fabric, Prints and Patterns, Videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMay 23, 20191 Comment

What is the easiest and best way to choose prints and patterns? Match them to your colour palette! If you’ve had a personal colour analysis you should have a colour palette, a fabulous tool that will assist you in finding the colours in both solid fabrics as well as patterned ones. When you think about…

What is Trans-Seasonal Dressing and How to Use it to Get More Mileage From Your Wardrobe

What is Trans-Seasonal Dressing and How to Use it to Get More Mileage From Your Wardrobe

Outfits, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportMay 17, 20193 Comments

What is trans-seasonal dressing anyway?  Simply, it’s wearing the same garments the whole year around, through each of the seasons.  It’s also particularly useful when the seasons are changing, from winter to spring, and summer to autumn.  When the mornings are chilly but the days are warm, as it relies on layering garments that can…

Genius Ways for Mixing Prints Like a Pro

11 Genius Ways to Mix Prints and Patterns Like a Pro

Fabric, Prints and PatternsBy Imogen LamportMay 16, 20197 Comments

If you learn how to mix prints and patterns in an outfit like a pro, you’ll expand your selection of possible ways of putting your existing clothes together and get way more bang for your fashion buck. Are there any fashion rules regarding mixing prints and patterns in your outfits? Mixing prints in fashion is…

How to Choose Jewellery to Work with Your Patterned Garments

How to Choose Jewellery to Work with Your Patterned Garments

Accessories, Fabric, Prints and PatternsBy Imogen LamportMay 10, 20193 Comments

Do you wear jewellery with your printed and patterned garments? You may not need to (check out my tips on knowing whether this applies to you here), but you may still like to add a little something extra, that icing that draws attention up to your face. It can be a little trickier to decide…

Your Ultimate Guide to Necklines and Which to Choose to Flatter Your Features

Your Ultimate Guide to 17 Necklines and Which to Choose to Flatter Your Features

Body Shapes, Body Variations, FaceBy Imogen LamportMay 7, 20195 Comments

The neckline of your top is important as it really can frame your face. When it’s in harmony the outfit will work so much more, than when it’s in discord with your features. So how to choose a neckline and which are the most flattering necklines for your body and face? Here is my guide…

5 Easy Ways to Revamp Your Jewellery

AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportMay 3, 20199 Comments

Do you have some jewellery, necklaces or earrings you don’t wear because the colour is wrong (or there is something else about it you don’t love)?  Frequently presents of jewellery are lovely, but just not quite right.  Most commonly the colour is off, and if it’s in a palette that clashes with the rest of…

6 Insanely Simple Ways to Know if Your Neckline Need a Necklace

6 Insanely Simple Ways to Know if Your Neckline Needs a Necklace

Accessories, Outfits, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportMay 1, 20193 Comments

How do you know if your outfit needs a necklace or not?   The first place to look is at the neckline of your top as it will give you the answer to this question. 1. Your Top Is Densely Patterned Does your top have a dense pattern, one that has little ‘negative space’ and is…

The Art of Overdying Your Clothes - Frequently Asked Questions

The Art of Overdying Your Clothes – Frequently Asked Questions

Colour, Reader Questions, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportApril 24, 20194 Comments

By Bernadette Lis Thinking about overdying your clothes to make them into a more flattering colour for you? It’s such a great way of bringing new life into clothing, and even masking stains you may have gotten on a favourite item. As we get lots of overdying questions, I’ve asked Ms MakeItOver Bernadette to answer…

6 Tips for Looking Stylish When Menopause Hits

Reader QuestionsBy Imogen LamportApril 2, 20191 Comment

What makeup do you regularly apply and use? For some women the answer is none! For others, it spans the gamut of available makeup products. I was asked to share my makeup essentials. I wear makeup every day, a foundation (either a liquid or a mineral powder, depending on how “made up” I want to…

9 Reasons Why Your Home is Your Final Change Room and 22 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Buy that Garment

9 Reasons Why Your Home is Your Final Change Room and 27 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Buy that Garment

Shopping, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportMarch 22, 20196 Comments

Shopping for clothes is often a fraught experience for many women. It can be so hard to go shopping and actually find the clothes you want, the clothes that fit, the clothes in colours you love and that flatter you, and the clothes that express your personality. It’s a big ask really when you think…

How to use the 60-30-10 proportion rule in creating outfits and mixing colours

Using the 60/30/10 Rule to Create Fabulous Colour Combinations in Your Outfits

Colour, Outfits, Prints and Patterns, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 20, 20197 Comments

In interior decorating, there is a concept of the 60/30/10 rule – that is percentages of different colours to use in a decorating scheme.  60% + 30% + 10 % proportion formula is considered to be a timeless decorating rule that can be used to mix different colours in a balanced way in a room.…

6 Ways Blake Lively Rocks Creative-Dramatic Outfits (and how you can too)

6 Ways Blake Lively Rocks Creative-Dramatic Outfits (and how you can too)

Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportMarch 19, 2019Leave a comment

Do you want to make your outfits more creative or dramatic, or a combination of both? Blake Lively has what I’d describe as a Creative/Dramatic style (a touch of Relaxed, Feminine and Elegant Chic thrown in too). What does she wear and how does she put her style together? Let’s break it down so you…

What to Do With Your Worn Once Garment That Doesn't Need Washing?

What to Do With Your Worn Once Garment That Doesn’t Need Washing?

Organisation and Storage, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportMarch 12, 201917 Comments

What do you do with the clothes that you’ve worn once that don’t need washing but you want to know that they have been worn so that the next time you wear them they will end up in the wash? Sometimes you’ve only worn the item for a couple of hours and it really doesn’t…

How to Create Dramatic Outfits When Your Most Flattering Colours are Soft and Smoky

How to Create Dramatic Outfits When Your Most Flattering Colours are Soft and Smoky

Colour, Reader Questions, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 8, 20197 Comments

Dear Imogen, I would appreciate advice of some sort, if possible 🙂 I have a dramatic personality, I love striking colours – but I have a soft, muted, low contrast, slightly warm colouring (“Intriguing”). Is there a way how to express my inner me in spite of this antagonism? Thank you very much, you are…

Where the Stars Go Right with Their Oscars Frocks and Why They Work and what you can learn from these examples and apply to your outfits when choosing colours, fabrics, patterns and textures.

Where the Stars Go Right with Their Oscars Frocks and Why They Work

Drape, texture and sheen, Fabric, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportFebruary 28, 20192 Comments

The 2019 Oscars have just happened and I was saddened at the choice of many of the frocks, I mean when you’ve got the money and the stylists and the access to amazing designers – why, why, why were there so many misses on the red carpet this year? Way too many of them resembled…

How I Helps Clients Shop Smarter By Simply Making a Simple Purchasing Decision Graphic

How I Help Clients Shop Smarter By Making a Simple Purchasing Decision Graphic

ShoppingBy Imogen LamportFebruary 27, 2019Leave a comment

Shopping mistakes around clothing are so common. Why? For a myriad of reasons that may include: Feeling the need to purchase to make the salesperson happy or not feel like you’ve wasted their time Feeling the need to purchase so that you justify your time and effort spent shopping (that hunter/gatherer instinct in us) The…

How to wear sheer garments with style

What You Need to Know About Wearing Sheer Garments to Have Sheer Style

Fabric, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportFebruary 26, 20192 Comments

Sheer garments are lovely and light and can add a feminine or elegant element to your outfit.  Assuming you’re not a Hollywood Starlet (or catwalk model) looking to get your picture in the news, the question often is, what to wear under them? How do you choose the right underlayer for your sheer garments?  There…

The Truth About How Ageing Actually Affects Your Style - colouring, body shape, lifestyle, values

The Truth About How Ageing Actually Affects Your Style

Body Shapes, Colour, Fabric, Face Styles, Personal Style, Prints and Patterns, Reader Questions, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportFebruary 22, 201913 Comments

I have found at 52 I no longer like the way prints look on me. Printed tops were once a significant part of my wardrobe, but as my hair and colouring have cooled they now overwhelm me. Can you explore the types of style changes one may need to make? What are the changed I…

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