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Category Archives: Wardrobe

Choosing Rings For Your Scale and Personality

Choosing Rings For Your Scale and Personality

AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportAugust 22, 20191 Comment

What are some of the considerations you should think about when choosing rings? Scale of the Ring and Scale of Your Hands and Fingers You will need to consider the scale of both your hands and fingers, and the scale of the ring. The larger the scale of your hands, the larger the rings you…

Questions to Ask Yourself to find the Right Way to Cull Your Closet

Questions to Ask Yourself to find the Right Way to Cull Your Closet

Podcast, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 20, 20196 Comments

Does it spark joy? This question works for some when sorting a wardrobe but not for everyone. What are some ways to cull or review your closet so that your wardrobe space is optimal for you? An optimal wardrobe indicates movement of clothes both into the wardrobe and out of it too. It’s too often…

Ways to cull your closet

WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 20, 2019Leave a comment

Discover multiple ways to cull your closet – and it’s not just about what you’ve not worn in the past 6 months – there are many ways to figure out what should stay and what should go. Find out more on the accompanying blog post: Ways to cull your closet

Why Personality is the Key to Developing Your Style

Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 12, 2019Leave a comment

Discover why personality is so important in developing your personal style and what you need to know to express who you are through your clothes and image. Find out more on the accompanying blog post here: Why Personality is the Key to Style

criteria for creating fabulous outfits

How to Create a Stylish Outfit? What Are Your Criteria that Makes it Great?

Outfits, Personal Style, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 1, 20196 Comments

How do you create a stylish outfit? What are some criteria you can use to decide if your outfit is fabulous (or even just good enough for you)? How do you know? Here in this video Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types and I discuss this reader question. What are your criteria for feeling great…

what to wear to bed back back or pregnant

What to Wear to Bed When You’ve Got a Bad Back or are Pregnant

Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 31, 20198 Comments

I’ve just spent a week with my back taped up after I could barely move for a couple of days as I’d managed to do some damage to my back that caused some discs to bulge. Lying in bed and trying to heave myself over, using my hands to physically shift my body (simple rolling,…

7 Steps to Create Your Fabulous Fashion Formula

7 Steps to Creating Your Fabulous Fashion Formula

Outfits, Personal Style, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 19, 20196 Comments

If you want to make your getting dressed process faster and easier each morning, you could create your own personal fashion formula, one that works with your style guidelines and personality, and that takes away some of the mental load. Let’s take a moment to talk about mental load… I see references to it everywhere…

How to Style Sneakers

How to Style Sneakers with Everything

AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportJuly 18, 20198 Comments

The age of the sneaker is truly here.  No matter your age or stage of life it seems that women are over uncomfortable shoes and want to be able to walk with ease. This was totally confirmed to me when one of Australia’s media queens, Amanda Keller, wore a pair of glitzy sneakers on the…

Sick of Thinking About What to Wear? 4 Ways to Deal with Image Burn Out

Style Tips, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 12, 201915 Comments

Have you ever been burnt out in your life? I’ve had three instances in my adult life where I’ve become completely burned out and had to reassess where I was going, what I was trying to achieve and whether or not my approach was working for me, given how I was feeling. The first time…

The Essential Travel Accessory for the Stylish Woman

Travel and Packing, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJune 28, 20192 Comments

As I’ve gotten older, I tend to spend more on clothes as I want higher quality and I expect the garments to last longer. So taking a little extra care of my clothes will also help me get the best value for my clothing dollar as well. How Do You Keep Your Clothes Clean When…

ways to wear colour in the professional workplace

4 Simple Ways to Wear More Colour in the Workplace

Colour, Dress Codes, Reader Questions, Wardrobe, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJune 12, 20192 Comments

Hi Imogen, What do you wear to work when your colouring doesn’t suit the traditional light/dark and neutrals of corporate classic dressing. Especially for people with light colouring and low value contrast that still need to be “in charge” and taken seriously. I’m working on this now and find it hard to find the sweet…

Bata Shoe Museum Toronto Canada

Step Inside the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto

Accessories, Reviews, Travel and Packing, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJune 7, 20192 Comments

Shoes, I love them, they really can have a huge impact on your outfit. They can be talking points, starting conversations, and can really elevate an outfit. Which is why I was excited on my recent trip to Canda, whilst in Toronto, to visit the Bata Shoe Museum. It’s home to one of the world’s…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

replacing wardrobe workhorses

6 Powerful Strategies for Replacing Wardrobe Workhorse Items

Shopping, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportDecember 11, 20183 Comments

Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types and I were asked to share our personal strategies for replacing items in the wardrobe – particularly those wardrobe workhorses that wear out and need to be replaced. Replacing Items in Your Wardrobe 1. Can You Get an Exact Replacement? If it’s a particular cut/style/brand – can you buy…

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