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Category Archives: What to wear

Weekend Reading – Breast Cancer Style Tips

Body Image, Bust, weekend readingBy Imogen LamportNovember 20, 20091 Comment

A great post on Post Mastectomy dressing from Kayleigh Is your hair thinning from Chemotherapy?  Check out Duchesse’s options for thinning hair How to choose and fit a mastectomy bra from The Bra Queen. Some more tips on dressing after a mastectomy from the Lifestyle Channel And a quick reminder that if you or anyone…

How to Choose Earrings for your faceshape

Figuring Out Your Face Shape – Choosing Earrings

Accessories, face stylesBy Imogen LamportNovember 11, 200910 Comments

In this post I’ll help you choose earrings according to your face shape. Hopefully after my last few posts you’ve now got more of an idea of your face shape.  Remember, these are guidelines only, and very few faces are exactly shaped.  In many ways, what is most important to figure out is: Answer these…

how to figure out your face shape

Importance of Placement of Facial Features For Determining Face Shape

Beauty, Face, face stylesBy Imogen LamportNovember 10, 200915 Comments

Sal from Already Pretty said in her comment on the post on Finding Your Face Shape that she still has problems figuring out what her face shape is. There is one more point about your face that you need to consider – the placement of your features within your face. I’ve done up some pictures…

How to Figure Out Your Face Shape

Beauty, face stylesBy Imogen LamportNovember 9, 200919 Comments

So many people want to know what their face shape is. Unfortunately, face shapes are not easy to define as most people’s faces don’t fit exactly into any specific shape. The easiest way of figuring out your face shape is to pull all your hair off your face, and sitting in front of a mirror,…

Necklines to flatter a softer chin and jaw

How to Flatter a Softer Chin

Face, face stylesBy Imogen LamportOctober 27, 20099 Comments

The chin is important in choosing flattering necklines, the shape of the chin is best supported by a neckline that relates and harmonises with it.  So when looking for a flattering necklines make sure you’re a replicating the shape of the chin and jaw.  This creates beautiful harmony (aka reminiscence which is a useful tip when…

The Triumph of Individual Style – Review

Body Proportions, ReviewsBy Imogen LamportSeptember 30, 200914 Comments

Image and Style Books – The Triumph of Individual Style by Carla Mathis The other day I did a review of The Little Black Book of Style – which I wan’t hugely impressed with. I was asked what books I did think were worth the money, I’ve already done a review of Christopher Hopkins Staging…

Review – Elle MacPherson Intimates D – G cup range

large bustBy Imogen LamportSeptember 3, 200919 Comments

I posted last week that I was excited to see that Elle MacPherson Intimates had brought our a range of bras up to a G cup – so today I went for a test drive – unfortunately the hype doesn’t live up to the reality. What I noticed first was that for a larger cup…

Discovering Your Assets

Accessories, Body Proportions, style tips, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 12, 200910 Comments

After my post on Highlighting Your Assets, some commenters seemed to have trouble working out what their assets are, they’ve spent so long being told about and focussing on their ‘flaws’ but never ‘assets’. I see everything as an asset, and don’t believe in flaws. It’s just that some assets you may want to highlight,…

More Style at a Certain Age

Body Image, H shapeBy Imogen LamportJuly 31, 200925 Comments

  Here again is my gorgeous friend Jan Fisher, Image Coach, from New Zealand – who is heading fast to 60! Red is one of her favourite colours and she wears it well! Her style is either a skirt with a knit top and often a jacket, or pants and a knit top with a…

Jewellery Ideas for the Busty

Accessories, large bustBy Imogen LamportJuly 29, 200910 Comments

Reader Jamtart asked recently for some ideas on what kind of jewellery would suit her – she’s petite (5’1″) and busty – and wanted some ideas. I suggest some pieces that are larger in scale, but not heavy in dimension – so in all price ranges, here are some ideas.   Firstly, from Wendy Brandes…

How to be Stylish at Any Age

H shape, Image Consulting, Personal Style, style tips, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 26, 200916 Comments

I’ve had quite a few requests from my lovely readers to do some posts on 50+ dressing, so rather than me do up another polyvore, I thought I’d bring some ‘real life’ 50+ into my blog.     Let me introduce you to my gorgeous friend and colleague Jan Fisher – who is an image…

how to stay cool modest and stylish in summer

Staying Cool and Modest in Summer

Accessories, Body Variations, style tips, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 23, 200916 Comments

I’m really struggling at the moment to find spring/summer clothes that don’t look too young for me. I don’t know why but a lot of stuff looks too fancy or ruffled, and that’s just not me 🙁 I always end up feeling too warm in the warmer months, because I never quite get a good…

How to Flatter Smaller Breasts

Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJuly 23, 200916 Comments

Recently, I received this comment on How to Choose Flattering Underwear (Bras and Brief…: Bras are my nemesis. I seriously have no boobs. At all. Shaped A cups are too big. If I wear an A cup I have to stuff the cup or else it caves in. So, I wear sports bras and other soft cupped…

How to Wear a High Neckline with a Large Bust

About Imogen, Accessories, large bust, layering tops, Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportJuly 21, 200913 Comments

  So, you may be aware that I generally advise against wearing a high neckline when you have a larger bust, as it makes it appear to be even bigger and start just underneath your chin.   But sometimes we all want to wear high necklines, for example, it’s winter here at the moment and…

how to choose a necklace

How to Choose a Necklace

Accessories, scaleBy Imogen LamportJuly 20, 200911 Comments

  When I wrote about wearing larger scale necklaces to distract from a big bust, I had some comments asking how did I choose the necklace to wear. So to start with today – I will show you a few choices I make and why I do so.  There is a concept called Relate Shapes…

How to make a large bust look smaller with a necklace

How a Large Necklace Can Make Your Bust Look Smaller

Accessories, Body Variations, scale, videosBy Imogen LamportJuly 14, 200933 Comments

  People often comment on my collection of larger scale necklaces and say that they’re ‘my thing’ as I always wear them. But they’ve only become ‘my thing’ since I discovered the power of a large necklace to make my bust look smaller. How does this work? It’s that old optical illusion – which centre…

how to find the right shapewear for your body

Finding the Right Shapewear for You

Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJuly 13, 200912 Comments

I was asked to help find shapewear for one of my lovely readers. She has problems as she’s a 38DDD (or a 38E in some places), finds that many garments roll down and create unsightly bulges, and also that her breasts sometimes escape underneath the underwire of her bra. How to Find the Right Shapewear…

How to flatter your lateral body shape

What’s Your Side View – Round or Elliptical?

Body ShapesBy Imogen LamportJuly 12, 200926 Comments

Did you know that we have a lateral body shape, as well as the regular “horizontal” body shape (what we call “body shape“) and also a vertical body shape (also called body proportions).  Your lateral body shape is your body in profile or the side view. Along with our front view/body shape, we also tend…

Money Doesn’t Buy You Style and Class

Alterations, favourite blogsBy Imogen LamportJuly 8, 20098 Comments

I want you to take a look today at Karen Of a Certain Age’s blog post today about Russia’s first lady, Svetlana Medvedev. Given her status, I’m guessing she’s dressed designer – so why doesn’t she pay to have her hems altered professionally to a length that suits her figure, buy a more uplifting bra,…

Body Proportions Explained – Long Rise

Body ProportionsBy Imogen LamportJune 30, 200917 Comments

One of the measurements that is commonly long is the rise measurement – that is the distance from leg break to waist. Some people have a long body, but they are short-waisted and the length is in their rise which is long. 1. If you are proportionally like this, skirts can be your best friends…

How to dress your long decollete

Body Proportions Explained – Small Bust but Long Decolletage

Body Proportions, Body VariationsBy Imogen LamportJune 29, 200913 Comments

One of my lovely readers asked that I post something to help her – she has a small bust but is proportionally long through her decollete and was wondering what she should wear. What’s a long decolletage?  Well, it’s a long proportion between the base of your chin and the peak of your bust –…

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