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5 Ways to Rock Your Frocks

Accessories, OutfitsBy Imogen LamportOctober 19, 20174 Comments

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…

Hats and headwear - how they communicate and which personality styles wear which type

How Hats and Headwear Communicate and the Personality of Different Styles

Accessories, Personal Style, VideosBy Imogen LamportOctober 17, 20175 Comments

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…

How to use accessories to create your ideal contrast levels

5 Ways to Use Accessories to Create Your Ideal Contrast

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportOctober 16, 20172 Comments

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…

styling a dress multiple ways

Four Easy Ways to Style a Black and White Dress

Outfits, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportOctober 9, 2017Leave a comment

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…

What is a Hip Dip and What to Wear When You Have Hip Dips

Body ShapesBy Imogen LamportOctober 5, 201719 Comments

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 between…

How to style one dress multiple ways for different occasions

How to Style One Patterned Dress Five Ways

Style Tips, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportOctober 4, 20173 Comments

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…

How Your Clothes "Fit" Your Lifestyle and Personality

How Your Clothes “Fit” Your Lifestyle and Personality

Fabric, Fit and Alterations, Personal Style, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportOctober 3, 20173 Comments

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  16 Style Types 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…

How to wear a high colour contrast when you're not high colour contrast

How to Wear a Multi-Coloured Item When You’re Not High Colour Contrast

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 29, 20173 Comments

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…

Choosing Top Lengths for Skirts and Pants

Body Proportions, Body ShapesBy Imogen LamportSeptember 28, 20173 Comments

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,…

How to wear the off the shoulder or cold-shoulder trend in cooler months

How to Work the Off the Shoulder Trend In Winter

Fashion TrendsBy Imogen LamportSeptember 27, 20175 Comments

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.  …

Why It Matters How Much Skin You Expose in the Workplace

Dress Codes, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 26, 201715 Comments

Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types 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,…

How to Add Colour To Your Neutral Outfits Without Looking Like a Clown

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 22, 20175 Comments

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…

Dressing Tips for the Dominantly Relaxed Personality For Evening Wear

7 Dressing Tips for the Dominantly Relaxed Personality For Evening Wear

Dress Codes, Occasion Dressing, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 20, 20179 Comments

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…

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 16 Style Types. The Energy of Colour The…

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,…

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 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…

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…

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 those…

How to Thrift Shop Like a Pro

How to Thrift Shop Like a Pro

Shopping, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 31, 201718 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 16 Style Types 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, Style, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 24, 20174 Comments

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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