In your most recent e-mail, you asked for fashion questions. I do have one question. I have quite a lot of fitted cotton/spandex tees. Would you wear them with knee-length skirts and flats? The skirts are corduroy, twill or cotton prints. The flats are casual ballet flats. It seems to me that the cotton tees…
Your style challenge for the weekend is to wear a hero garment or accessory. What is a Hero Garment? What’s a hero? Well it’s a statement piece. A hero makes your plain outfit more interesting and exciting. It can be built into the garment (such as a pattern) or can be added (like a statement…
It’s less than 2 weeks until I fly off to Dubai thanks to Dubai Tourism with 21 other Nuffnang Bloggerati bloggers and I’m getting more excited every day. We have just been given some details of a few of the activities that we are doing, and where we will be staying, while in Dubai. So…
I was lucky enough to spend the day yesterday with Jan Fisher, AICI FLC a New Zealand based image consultant who you have met before here and here with her ideas for dressing women of a certain age. We went out for lunch and dropped into a local boutique and discovered this great necklace, which…
This weekend my theme is Outfit Inspiration so I’m sharing a few of my outfits this past couple of weeks. It’s been very cold in my office as I have no heating (broken down, waiting on a part) and it’s mid-winter here so I’m all layered up. My wardrobe is still full of black…
Please welcome Tiina Lehtoranta from Helsinki, Finland, who is sharing her Stylish Thoughts with us! Tiina writes the blog Elegance Revisited. What is the secret to great style? Consistency, in the sense that personal style should be an extension .of personality, something that looks natural and authentic. What is the one thing you would spend…
From London in the UK comes Rebecca Ffrancon, a graduate of the Academy Professional Image and Image and Colour Consultant who shares her tips on building a more stylish and colourful wardrobe on her blog and Instagram. 1. What is the secret to great style? I think it’s all about understanding the huge role your…
Yesterday we talked about giving your wardrobe a good purge. Until you’ve done this stage it’s impossible to work out what you do and don’t have, and if you really do have nothing to wear. Firstly, if your favourites are still wearable, but starting to wear out – put them…
Thank you for your posts – I really enjoy them and find them useful. I have a question about mixing the colour navy. I tend to wear a lot of (brighter) navy to work (can’t do black) but wonder about mixing different navy pieces, particularly plain navy pants and a jacket/cardigan not from the same…
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.…
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…
Reader’s question: “How can I find things that are comfortable both in how I feel about them and how they actually feel on me, but also dressy? I like to look classy and stylish but often find it difficult to source things that are.” How to Look Stylish Yet Be Super Comfortable 1. Quality Ensure…
Want to look taller and or slimmer? The column of colour is just one of the many illusion tricks I can teach you, so that you can become your own clothing magician. The column of colour is a great trick to elongate your body When we think about using lines to create the illusion of…
1. Match without Being Matchy Think about how you put together your accessories. There is no need to buy a matching set (and it can look kind of contrived in this modern age), so think about matching: Shapes Colours Textures Sheen Sparkle Metal Read: Matching jewellery – sets without beings sets 2. Level of Refinement…
I like to dress with a level 1 combined with level 2 level of refinement, but don’t want to look try hard or overdressed when not dressing for more formal or fancy occasions. What to wear? If you are a more formal dresser naturally, you prefer more classic or structured clothes, finer fabrics and an…
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Everyone wants to look and feel attractive, even irresistible to that important person in your life. For many of us, there is a difference between being alluring by creating a sense of desire and being sexy by creating sexual appeal. It’s the way a woman moves, talks, body language and the way she conducts herself…
Floral necklace and coat for a trip to the theater, the premiere of Once, the musical (I’m writing a review which I will publish next week). I was challenged to white on white. If you make a donation you too can give me a Frocktober Style Challenge! Just leave it in the comments when you…
Many women like to feel comfortable in their clothes. For some, comfort is their number one driver when dressing (and sometimes it shows, as often comfortable translates to sloppy). So how can feel comfortable but look stylish at the same time? Well as you’re about to see with these 10 outfits I’ve put together, comfort…
Suede boots from Hush Puppies, coated denim jeans from Witchery (these are similar) Top is from Big W Emerson range, shoes are from Mox Shoes, skirt is by Boo Radley (this one is similar) Metalicus top with a waterfall cardigan (similar) and coated denim skinny jeans (similar). Metalicus tshirt and pair of shorts from Target…
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…
