Where to End Your Tops and Jackets
I’m often asked where to end your tops and jackets. In this video I give you some pointers to help you find your sweet spot that flatters your figure.
How to Choose Evening Wear for Your Age
Evening wear can be a little tricky to choose. Will I be under-dressed? Over-dressed? Too formal? Too casual? Look tarty? Look too young or too old? So what should you wear? Well of course it depends on the dress code and occasion, if you’ve been invited out and are not sure the host is always…
Weekend Reading – UnShopping by Debbie Roes
This week I was sent a review copy of Debbie Roes new ebook UnShopping: Recovery Solutions from an Ex-Shopaholic. It’s a guide to help shopaholics shop less, and shop smarter, but is a relevant book for many of us who many sometimes shop for reasons other than necessity. This book is packed with some really…
Can a Petite Woman Wear Pinstripes?
Hi I have recently discovered your website and finally subscribed to the email. I wonder if you can help with a stripes related question please? I read conflicting information about petites and stripes. I haven’t found an answer on your website but if I have missed it please point me in the right direction. I…
Best Hairstyles for Your Face Shape – Pear/Triangle/Teardrop
A Pear/Triangle/Teardrop face shape has a broader jaw than forehead. So your aim is to soften your jaw, make it appear a little narrower, whilst balancing your jaw to forehead. It’s a bit like a heart shape face flipped upside down. Hairstyles that Flatter a Pear/Triangle/Teardrop Shaped Face Layers around your face work really well.…
W is for Wardrobe Capsule
Understanding Wardrobe Capsules Wardrobe capsules are an easy way of creating groups of clothes that mix and match so you get multiple outfits from fewer pieces, than if you keep garments as outfits. They are particularly useful if you are building (or re-building) a wardrobe due to pregnancy, weight-loss or gain, change in lifestyle, body…
How to Measure Your Body Proportions
I’ve been asked once again to share with you how to measure your body proportions, so I made a new video to help you figure out where you are proportionally longer and shorter. Just remember, when you’re measuring. 1 head length (top of head to base of chin) – use this length to determine…
How to Find a Flattering Hairstyle
The best hairstyle for you is not just about face shape (though it does come into the equation and you can read about different face shapes and which styles they suit here on my blog. But have you considered your hair texture and body and how they influence the style you choose? Watch this short…
Breast Reduction Update – 6 Weeks Post Surgery
Hard to believe but I’m now 6 weeks post my reduction, and I’ve forgotten what it felt like to have larger breasts (my shoulders and back do still feel like there is less strain on them than there used to be). I’m now allowed to go back to higher impact exercise (though I haven’t run…
Best Hairstyles for Your Face Shape – Heart Shape
A heart shape face is broader at the forehead (that’s the broadest point of it) and narrow and pointed at the chin (a longer chin rather than the shorter squarer jaw shape of the rectangle or square). It may or may not have a widow’s peak, and can also be called an inverted triangle. Some…
How to Care for Your Clothes
Hi Imogen, I love your blog and have found soooo much helpful information on it! I have a rather practical but important question: How do you keep your clothes so tidy, pressed and new looking? Everything I launder comes out faded, wrinkled and sloppy looking. Unless I iron it, which, let’s face it, isn’t going…
How to Choose Hosiery to Go with Coloured Shoes
And from a style dilemma from Facebook – Coloured shoes and… What colour tights? I never seem to get it right! Well, the answer to this depends on who you are and what you want to express. For a more conservative environment, I’d choose nude tights with colour shoes. For a more creative environment, you could…
Best Hairstyles for Your Face Shape – Oblong
The oblong face is longer than 1.5 times it’s width and tends to look long and narrow, but has a curved jaw (unlike the rectangle face which has a square jaw). If you count ‘noses’ it’s more than 3 noses long. It is a similar width at the temple as the jaw Hairstyles that Suit…
The Belting Dilemma for an H Shape to Keep Up Your Jeans
Dear Imogen, I recently discovered your blog and enjoy reading it. I hope you could help me with a belt dilemma. I’m a petite H, however, I find it necessary to wear a belt with my jeans and pants, otherwise they move down to my hips and my tummy pops out. Sometimes my underwear also…
U is for Uniform
A uniform doesn’t have to be something prescribed by a workplace or school (or any other institution). It can be one that you create yourself. The concept of a uniform works for some, in fact, they love it, it helps them feel in control, they know what they’re going to wear and they don’t have…
Breast Reduction Update – 4 Weeks Post Surgery
Warning: this post contains boobs and may not be work appropriate or if you have beliefs about modesty you may want to skip this post. Today marks my 4 weeks post breast reduction surgery. Yes, I’m still having some pain, tingling, burning, stabbing kinds of weird and uncomfortable sensations, but I do not regret the…
Best Hairstyles for Your Face Shape – Rectangle
When you look at a rectangle face it is more than 1.5 times it’s width (and more than 3 noses long) but it has a square jaw and hairline. The sides are fairly straight Great hairstyles for a rectangle face You will want to make the face appear a little shorter and more balanced so…
Understanding the Style Puzzle – 9 Keys to Unlocking Your Style
There is no one route to style. You cannot become instantly stylish just from understanding your body shape (sorry Trinny and Susannah, it’s just not that simple). There is, what I call, the Style Puzzle, a group of elements when they all go together define your personal style. These puzzle pieces are just the start…
Modernise Your Style
Do you want to be perceived as forward thinking and able to keep up with the times and technology? One of the issues some of my older clients will mention when they’ve hit that certain age, that if their workplace is downsizing their workforce, that because they are a bit older they don’t want to…
T is for Texture
Texture is one of the pieces of the Style Puzzle (body shape is one piece too, yet so much is written about body shape, people think it’s the whole puzzle, instead of just being a small element of the whole). Using different textures in fabrics will make a monochromatic or neutral outfit so much more…
Best Hairstyles for your Face Shape – Round
The round face has a width that is almost as wide as the face is long (a face is generally a little longer) but it’s length is well less than 1.5 times the width. Hairstyles that Work for a Round Face Long hair – it visually minimises the width of your face and elongates it,…