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Category Archives: Personal Style

T is for Texture in fabrics and outfits

T is for Texture

Drape, texture and sheen, Fabric, Personal Style, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportMay 8, 20148 Comments

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…

Stylish Thoughts – Interiors Addict

Stylish ThoughtsBy Imogen LamportMay 6, 20141 Comment

  This Stylish Thoughts post comes from Sydney (Australia) based blogger Jen Bishop of Interiors Addict. What is the secret to great style? Knowing what suits you, wearing it confidently and not being a slave to trends What is the one thing you would spend a lot of money on? Either the perfect pair of…

S is for Scale - Imogen Lamport's A-Z of Style - Scale is an illusion technique you can use to make areas of your body appear larger or smaller

S is for Scale

Body Variations, Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportMay 2, 201429 Comments

Scale is one of the most important elements to consider when thinking about dressing your body and personality. It’s one of the tools we have to create an optical illusion, we can use it to make ourselves or parts of ourselves appear larger or smaller (or just as we are), depending what we want to…

More on Identifying Yin and Yang in Clothing Design

Fabric, Occasion Dressing, Personal Style, Prints and Patterns, Reader QuestionsBy Imogen LamportMay 1, 201417 Comments

Following on from Ways to Balance Your Yin and Yang, here you can see how the lower the contrast and smaller the print, the less advancing, or softer it looks, so thus is more yin in appearance. The higher the contrast, the bolder or larger the pattern, the more advancing it appears, thus is more…

ways to balance the yin and yang of clothing

Ways to Balance Your Yin and Yang

Reader Questions, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportApril 28, 201415 Comments

Perhaps you could write another post about what to wear when you have a yin personality and would like to wear yin, but yang looks better on you and vice versa? I like the examples you give in interpreting yin and yang in a garment.     There are so many ways you can make…

How to create harmony with your personality using yin and yang

Creating Harmony with Your Personality

Dress Codes, Fabric, Personal Style, Prints and PatternsBy Imogen LamportApril 22, 201418 Comments

Yin and Yang can be used to create harmony with who you are. Personality is such a huge factor in the clothes we choose, what we like and dislike. It’s important to work with your natural personality to appear authentic. For instance, here is Madonna in a Yin and and Yang outfit: Which is appears…

So Long and Thanks for the Mammaries

About Imogen, Body Image, Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportApril 19, 201427 Comments

I’m writing this sitting in my hospital bed, the night after my breast reduction surgery. I’m still mentally coming to terms with what I’ve done, after a lifetime of overly large breasts and in many ways my breasts have defined part of who I am (just as I was a brunette and am now a…

Using Yin and Yang in Clothing Design to Balance Your Appearance

Fabric, Outfits, Personal Style, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportApril 18, 201416 Comments

The other day I posted about the concept of Yin and Yang (advancing and receding elements) in clothing design. You may have started to think about the clothes you choose and what they are communicating, but have you thought about your own physical appearance and what it may naturally communicate and how you can use…

Why Having Big Breasts is Not So Fun

About Imogen, Body Image, Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportApril 17, 201442 Comments

Today is the day, all going to plan, I’m having my breast reduction surgery. Many women find it a strange thing to do, and many women pay to have their breasts enlarged. Sure this is a first world problem, but I live in the first world. Since I was a teenager and my breasts rapidly…

Using Yin and Yang to Communicate with Your Clothes

How to Understand the Yin and Yang of Clothing

Drape, texture and sheen, Fabric, Personal Style, Prints and PatternsBy Imogen LamportApril 16, 201420 Comments

  Have you ever considered Yin and Yang (or Receding and Advancing) in relation to your clothes? I first read about this concept in Judith Rasband’s Wardrobe Strategies for Women, and realised that it relates to all personality style and why each style communicates in the way it does. Understanding Ying and Yang of Clothing…

My Style Philosophy – Rules are Made to Be Broken

My Style Philosophy – Rules are Made to Be Broken

About Imogen, Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportApril 9, 201415 Comments

As my regular readers would be aware, I spend many hours, days and weeks writing blog posts to give you sets of rules to work with to find out what works for your unique body and all its glorious features. Many may think that I’m obsessed with rules and believe that we should all stick…

How to Style Print Pants

Fashion Trends, Outfits, Prints and Patterns, Reader Questions, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportApril 8, 20148 Comments

Hi Imogen, do you think you could share your tips on styling print pants? They are everywhere this season and although I’m not a slave to fashion, I bought a pair or black and white ones that I love, but what to wear them with?!   Along with the tips on this picture, here are…

My Style Crush – Blue and White

Fabric, Personal Style, Prints and PatternsBy Imogen LamportApril 4, 201418 Comments

Blue and white patterned items have long been a style crush of mine. From willow patterned plates to Ming vases, I’ve long been in love with the simplicity of the colour scheme along with the curvy detailed, oriental feel of the pattern. The minute I saw the blouse I’m wearing in the picture above, I…

Buy a Dress and I’ll Donate to Find a Cure for Ovarian Cancer

Personal Style, ShoppingBy Imogen LamportMarch 28, 201410 Comments

Last year, I participated in Frocktober to raise money for Ovarian Cancer Research. It’s a disease that yesterday killed my friend and sister-in-law Penny after a 7 month battle with the disease. Only recently I was reading that Ovarian Cancer only has a 5 year survival rate of 43% (compare that to Breast Cancer which…

Using Simultaneous Contrast to Change the Way a Colour Looks

Body Variations, Colour, Outfits, Reader Questions, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportMarch 27, 201417 Comments

Hi Imogen, Thank you for your awesome posts. I have a question about colour : It is said that colour is dynamic as it can change when it is next to other colours. Does that mean that we can play with this ability of colour when putting an outfit together ? Can we intentionally alter…

Stylish Thoughts – Emma of This Kind Choice

Stylish ThoughtsBy Imogen LamportMarch 26, 20143 Comments

Today’s Stylish Thoughts interview comes from Wellington, New Zealand-based blogger Emma of This Kind Choice. How would you describe your personal style? My style has become a lot more refined over the past year and a half thanks to becoming more interested in the ethical and environmental impacts of my clothing choices. I began asking…

How to choose the right blonde hair colour

Not Going Grey Gracefully Part 4

Beauty, Colour, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportMarch 25, 201427 Comments

So it’s now been over 2 months since I started my process of going lighter and I’ve had a second root touch up and tint with my hairdresser – Karleigh at Anthony Nitson Hair in Doncaster (Melbourne). As you can see, I’ve gone lighter again, this time my lowlights are an 8.1 (ash based blonde),…

What to Wear When you Don’t Have Great Legs

Body Variations, Reader Questions, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportMarch 21, 20144 Comments

Hi, I live in drought-ridden California (SF Bay Area) and am bracing for very hot weather this spring and summer. Even now, in mid-February, it’s in the 70s. What do you suggest a woman who is over 55 like me and not proud of her legs anymore wear in terms of dresses and shorts. I…

Stylish Thoughts – Lady Melbourne

Personal Style, Stylish ThoughtsBy Imogen LamportMarch 18, 20142 Comments

This week’s Stylish Thoughts is from the blogger Phoebe who writes the blog Lady Melbourne. What is the secret to great style? It can’t be learned, you either have it or you don’t in my book. Chanel, Vreeland, Hepburn- I don’t even need to use their first name and we can all conjure how truly…

Style Statement with Friends

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportMarch 17, 201410 Comments

  Who are you and how do you want to be perceived? This is something I work through with my Style clients to discover who they are and how we can translate their personality into an authentic expression through their clothing and grooming. If you’ve thought about this topic before and have wondered how you…

Up Up and Away in a Hot Air Balloon

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportMarch 15, 20144 Comments

Tuesday this week, my honey and I took a hot air balloon ride over Melbourne. This is something I’ve wanted to do for the past 20 years or so. We rose before dawn and met the rest of the passengers and crew and were bused out to our launch site. The launch site is decided…

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