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3 Tips To Feel Polished In A Corporate Environment When Heels Are Not Your Thing

Reader Questions, Videos, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Natalie RobinsonAugust 3, 20211 Comment

Reader Question – I have a back issue that means I can’t wear heels. I work in a corporate job and I feel that wearing ballet flats doesn’t look as polished as heels. Do you have any suggestions?  The expectation that women wear high heels to work, or anywhere for that matter, seems like an…

How to look taller when you don't wear heels

How to Look Taller Without Wearing Heels

Body Variations, Personal Style, Reader Questions, Style, Style Tips, VideosBy Natalie RobinsonOctober 31, 2023Leave a comment

Reader Question: I’m top-heavy and can’t tuck my tops in I’m short and I would like to look taller without wearing heels   Are you vertically challenged and wish you could add some height without resorting to stilettos? The struggle to find clothes that not only fit but also flatter our bodies is real. Many…

Finding Feminine Footwear for Winter

Finding Feminine Winter Footwear

Accessories, Reader Questions, Shopping, Videos, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportNovember 8, 2022Leave a comment

Reader Question: After finishing Visualise Your Style, I realize a large part of my personality is feminine. It seems I can find feminine shoes for warmer weather. But how do I find feminine winter shoes? What details do I look for to add feminine touches? Preferably not heels but everyday shoes! When Your Feet Have…

How to dress the longer body with shorter legs proportioned body

Body Proportions Explained – Long Body, Shorter Legs

Body ProportionsBy Imogen LamportApril 13, 200918 Comments

Discover How to Flatter the Longer Torso Shorter Legs Proportional Body Further, from my general explanation of body proportions, and the other two common body proportions – Long legs, Short Body, and Balanced with a Short Mid-Body,  let’s look specifically at some of the common issues for the longer body, shorter leg.  You can figure out…

What Shoes to Wear with Leggings

Colour, Style Tips, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportSeptember 23, 200921 Comments

How to wear leggings seems to be a highly googled question, and what sorts of shoes work with leggings is a hot topic, so here is my 2c on the subject.       Here are some ideas:  1.Ankle length (left) – work best with high vamp shoes and sandals, either in a colour that…

Discover Your Most Versatile Shoe Colour that You Can Wear With Everything

Discover Your Most Versatile Shoe Colour that You Can Wear With Everything

Accessories, Colour, Personal Style, Wardrobe, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJune 16, 20229 Comments

Did you know that there is a shoe colour that will work with all your outfits?  If you’re like many women who don’t want (can’t afford, or just don’t have the space for) an Imelda Marcos shoe wardrobe with thousands of shoes in every colour and style, then finding your ideal shoe colour will really…

How To Choose Shoes for Skirts or Dresses

Accessories, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportNovember 11, 201119 Comments

Shoes are a really important part of your outfit – even though you want to dress your portrait first, we notice the whole of you as you enter or leave a room and if the shoes don’t work, they can create an unwanted focal point, or create disharmony. So how do you choose shoes? What…

A Guide to Visual Grouping

Colour, Reader QuestionsBy Imogen LamportDecember 11, 201316 Comments

Here is how I came to think about it : being a dark-haired, cool person, I decided to “break my style rules” and bought a leopard faux-fur coat – I love it on your lovely colleague Jill Chivers -. I chose a not too warm background (sand). The spots are dark brown and I would…

How to Make Your Feet Look Shorter

Personal Style, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportMay 14, 20133 Comments

Hi Imogen! I just discovered your blog today and I find it wonderfully visual and enormously helpful. I saw your post on How to Make Your Feet Look Longer. Could you please post advice on How to Make Your Feet Look Shorter? I am 5 feet 4 inches tall with a size 9 shoe and…

how to flatter thick ankles

3 Top Tips to Choosing Shoes to Flatter a Thick Ankle

Accessories, Body Variations, Reader QuestionsBy Imogen LamportMay 14, 20159 Comments

Recently I’ve had two readers ask me to write about how to flatter thicker ankles: Sometime it would be great if you could address ‘thick ankles’. They were the bane of my mother’s existence and sometimes I think they are of mine as well. They are why (along with horrible English weather) I almost always…

choosing shoes to make your legs look longer

How to Choose Shoes to Make Your Legs Look Longer

Accessories, Body Proportions, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportAugust 31, 20084 Comments

You weren’t blessed in the leg department with those “legs that go on forever”?  No need to fret, I’ve got the optical illusion tips to help you fake longer looking legs. Which Shoes to Wear with a Skirt If you’re wearing a skirt, then choose a shoe in a colour that relates to your skin…

Readers Favourite blog posts

Katie’s Favourite Blog Posts

MoreBy Imogen LamportDecember 23, 20151 Comment

The other day one of my Evolvers (that’s what the Evolve Your Style members call themselves over on their community page) mentioned how much a certain blog post had impacted on her and her style journey. That got me thinking that many of you may have favourite blog posts and so I asked readers to…

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…

Petite proportions - getting it right with skirts and dresses

Petite Proportions – Getting it Right with Skirts and Dresses

Body Proportions, Body Variations, Reader QuestionsBy Imogen LamportJuly 15, 201510 Comments

Imogen would you do a post, with illustrations, for golden mean proportions on petites for casual styles and for skirts and dress ensembles? I know you have done casual capsules, but I need more guidance. Firstly, I just want to stress that you shouldn’t get obsessed with following the golden meanexactly! It’s certainly harder for…

how to choose shoes for your maxi

Which Shoes to Wear with a Maxi Dress or Skirt

AccessoriesBy Imogen LamportDecember 15, 20153 Comments

Dress Colour Choose a shoe that relates to one of the colours in the dress, maxi’s are best with sandals rather than heavy shoes as they have a poolside glam feel about them which equates with summer footwear. Alternatively, a metallic shoe is an easy option as is a nude/skintone shoe colour if you don’t…

How to Style Cropped Pants

Easy Ways to Wear Cropped Pants

OutfitsBy Imogen LamportApril 14, 20168 Comments

Cropped pants, according to the Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion are “Pants cut at varying lengths between ankle and knee.” So really, anything that ends just below the knee to the ankles. They can have a leg shortening effect so here are some tips on what kinds of shoes to wear them with (as well as…

how to dye leather boots and shoes

How to Dye Leather Shoes

Accessories, More, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportAugust 2, 20175 Comments

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…

8 Simple Ways to Make Your Legs Look Longer

8 Simple Ways to Make Your Legs Look Longer

ColourBy Imogen LamportJune 18, 200924 Comments

  Wear a nude shoe – yes I’ve gone on about this illusion trick before, but it’s worth repeating – a nude shoe, one that blends with the colour of your skin on your foot, will make your legs look longer by creating a seamless transition from skin to shoe.  Wear a low vamp shoe…

More Ways to Flatter Your Body Proportions

Body ProportionsBy Imogen LamportDecember 2, 201113 Comments

Following on from my video on how to measure your body proportions yesterday, I want to share with you more ways to flatter your proportions. Here are some posts I’ve written about some of the more common proportional issues. 8 Top Tips to Dressing a Short Waist Short Legs, Long Rise How to Define Your…

Understanding elements of style

How 3-5 Style Guidelines Are All You Need to Be Super Stylish

Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportOctober 12, 20169 Comments

One of the things I notice here with the comments I receive both here and on Facebook, is that sometimes we can get bogged down in the minutia of style guidelines (remember they are just guidelines, not rules). I think so many women have a perfectionist streak that we want to be ‘perfect’ at putting…

Style rules to not break (and which ones you can break)

10 Style Rules – Follow or Break?

Colour, Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportFebruary 18, 201014 Comments

Following on from my post about the Style Rules I’d never break, with some great comments about your style rules, it led me into thinking about all those rules out there, should you or shouldn’t you? Style Rules You Should Break 1. Blue and green should never be seen – I break this one all…

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