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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
