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June 16, 2013

BRACELETS - The Easy to Wear Accessory

by Plesir, in wrist size

Bracelets

Bracelets are the easiest accessory to wear.

Chunky, big and bold bracelets are everywhere. There are two basic things to consider when choosing a bracelet:

size of your wrist.
Follow the instructions below to measure it:
- Measure it by wrapping it with you middle finger and your thumb, use the opposite hand of course! If you can barely touch the tip of your fingers, it means your wrist is large. If you can just touch, it is medium, and if you thumb overlaps your middle finger, you wrist size is small.
- A big wrist will look even bigger if you wear a thin bracelet. So use bracelets that are similar in scale to your own wrist. A thin wrist can look too fragile and thinner with a chunky big bracelet...so choose accordingly.

The other factor to consider when choosing a bracelet is the overall color. Is it gold, or silver based? take a look at this post Is my skin warm or cool? for finding out what suits you better.

That's it! Just have fun! Bracelets are a great way to add a fun touch to any look. You can play with them and combine them in as many ways as you can think! They don't actually have to "match" anything else! And they are a great way to create a signature look. Imagine you have a beautiful piece that you love and wear all the time, no matter what...That is a signature you bring with you everywhere. People start to recognize your look and expect you to wear it every time. I particularly love to use either a ring or a bracelet as signature pieces

Take a look at some bracelet ideas from the windows of 5th Avenue stores in New York City

Bracelets! From the stores of New York City.

Rhinestones creating beautiful flower shapes, in neutral colors of silver and gold...

Lots of colorful stones...turquoise is a classic...

Geometrical shapes...

Colorful enameled chunky bracelets...

Gold chains in bold white...

Rhinestones in bright colors...

Bright pink and fuchsia...

Flowers and rhinestones...

Mix silver and gold bracelets and use them together...

Black and Earth tones combined in this mix of four bracelets...

Lots of variety in the BRACELETS you see out there in the shops of New York City. You get to choose...Which one do you like most?

May 31, 2013

A KNOCK OUT DRESS FOR EACH BODY SHAPE

by Plesir, in HOW TO DRESS

We need to love the skin we’re in, and accept our curves or lack thereof! So it’s NOT about size, it’s about your body shape! Balance and proportion as we said in previous posts are the keys to flattering your figure, whether your dress size is a 0 or a 20. Let's find the best way to create harmony from your head to your toes is with visual symmetry.

Here are some tips for each body shape, and also suggestions of dresses that compliment that body shape! The first thing I considered when choosing the dresses to suggest, is the cutting, then the type of fabric and specially where the value of colors (darker and lighter colors) were placed in the overall design of the dresses. Hope you can use this as a guide for your own shopping! Bare in mind that the models don't necessarily have the corresponding body shapes, though the dresses on each side of the body types listed are flattering for that particular body shape.

Hourglass Those women who have an hourglass body shape are naturally balanced, meaning the width of the shoulders and hips is the same and they have a definite waist. Try to avoid anything that hides your waist as it is the asset you want to show off. By cinching yourself in with a belt, you can highlight those curves. Also wear tailored pieces.

Triangle You also a definite waist, so show it off! What you need to do is balance your top half which is smaller in size, with your bigger bottom half. Make use of trends like bold shoulders and statement necklaces (which are big right now!), and use details and colors on tops to draw up the eye and create more volume on your top half. Keep your bottom half simple, wear darker colors on straight cut pants or a-line skirts.

Inverted triangle You tend to have broad shoulders and narrow hips , so what it's needed to achieve visual balance is wear clothing that helps elongate your torso. By elongating your torso we create a vertical line that draws attention to your entire silhouette and not just your broad shoulders. You can do that by wearing a long necklace, also wear long tops that end just where your hips start. Avoid wearing short tops, and high-waisted jeans, skirts and pants. You don't need shoulder pads, so avoid wearing them. Halter tops also increase the size of your shoulders visually so try to avoid them also. Show off your great legs, with shorts, and slim pants!

Rectangle You want to create visual curves and define the waistline. Many women with a rectangular body shape complain of their boyish figure, but there are plenty of ways to play up your femininity and your assets. Wear wrap around tops and dresses, they flatter all figures and specially rectangular shapes, as they visually create a waist and flare at the hips. Bias cuts, can also create the illusion of bigger or curvier hips, thus creating a waist. Use jackets and blazers with darts at the waist, specially perfect for your body shape is the Peplum.

Round What happens with the round body shape, is that it usually conceals another body shape, due to extra weight carried at the middle. Most times a Round body shape is a rectangular or inverted triangle body shape. Let's deal with the shape the body is in now. So if you have a round body shape, my suggestion is to wear same color on top and bottom halves. Don't think you can wear light colors? Of course you do! Take a look at the off white dress on your left, it is perfect for a round body shape, it has an empire waist cut and pleads in a semi structured cut and fabric.

May 30, 2013

Tips to Help Balance your Body Shape

by Plesir, in IMAGE CONSULTING

How can we use our body shapes to learn how to dress?

by Guest Writer: Georgina Kenny

My goal and my suggestion for all my clients is to emphasize their face when getting dressed, and this rule applies no matter what your body shape is. Your face is your most important body part, and if we want people to relate to you, to who you really are, you need to call attention to your face, and not just to other specific body areas.

You might have different goals, and only you can decide which parts of your body you want to highlight. In general besides dressing to call attention to the face, we also strive to emphasize those body parts or characteristics that are assets and try to de-emphasize those that you might not be so "proud" of.

We also have a shared-visual idea of what an "ideal" body should look like, and in our society, that body for women, is usually, full busted, small waisted, with square shoulders, and a perky bottom. It is what our culture has accepted as the "ideal" body.

But we not only look at current magazines or films for reference as to what a women's "ideal" body should look like. We go back in time to great works of art and we take a look at sculptures, paintings and films and photographs of women from other times.

Yes, body ideals are not "permanent", ideals are very long "trends", and as we can see ideals change with time. The ideal woman used to be curvier in the 1950's, squarer in the 1980's, slimmer in the 90's and now we see more diversity and also a more "athletic" body as an ideal for both men and women. The famous six pack is selling more magazines now more than ever! By the way, I don't think women look good with an obvious six-pack, it's too masculine for my taste.

So if ideals are not written in stone, we can also help to change them. For example, I like to focus on values instead of on ideals. "Ideals" are mostly external, they are "dictated" by somebody else. Values can also change but they come from my own internal system. I am the one that sets them up, and they are usually rooted in my own sense of self. I value health, family, community, womanhood. And I strive to show that in the way I treat my body and the way I dress it. So because I value aesthetics, femininity and balance, I have learned a great deal about women's bodies, proportions and visual harmony.

But then again we should learn to come up with our own version of the "ideal" body shape, and the more similar it is to ours, the happier we will be! That is for sure!

These are a few tips and ideas for every body shape to achieve more balance visually:

Hourglass: Emphasize the waistline, wear clothes that hug the body to show off its curves, but not too tightly.

Triangle-Pear: Wear items such as jackets with details in the shoulders, such as shoulder pads or studs to help create balance with the bottom half, which is bigger.

Inverted Triangle: highlight the bottom part of the body through the use of full skirts, pants with pockets to help match the broad top, and visually create balance.

Rectangle: show off your great arms or legs, add belts to help visually create a waist. Wear pleaded pants and skirts. Avoid wide-leg or very loose trousers, these will create a boxy image rather than a curves.

Round or Apple: Wear the same color on top and bottom. Emphasize bust line with use of square necklines. An use the empire cut on dresses and shirts to show off the smaller part of your torso, which is right under your bust-line.

Remember these are just a few tips to visually help create balance in your figure overall. The current ideal body should not be what dictates your clothing options. Knowing yourself and dressing for your own body shape is the best tool to feeling confident in your own skin!

About the Author of this post: This post was written and illustrated by Georgina Kenny. B.A. in Advertising and Image Consultant certified by the Fashion Institute of New York City, SUNY, New York City. Georgina is a contributor at New York Fashion Week and she writes for different online media about her favorite subjects: Women's Fashion and Style, Women's Body Image, Women's Emotional Health and Self-Esteem. If you would like to contact Georgina write an email to lookbookyou@gmail.com and we will put you in touch.

May 29, 2013

What is your Body Type?

by Plesir, in IMAGE CONSULTING

Let's continue with the Key# 3 of The 5 Keys to Dressing Well

FLATTER YOUR BODY LINES, PROPORTIONS AND SCALE

The Main Body Types

Round or Apple
Hourglass
Inverted Triangle
Triangle or Pear
Rectangle


BODY TYPES

Round or Apple: Has no defined waist. Has rounded shoulders. Full around the tummy.
Hourglass: Has a definite waist. Wears the same size top and bottom. Has a defined bust.
Inverted Triangle: Wears a larger size on top half and a smaller on bottom. Has wider shoulders than hips. Usually flat rear.
Triangle or Pear: Smaller on top, bigger size on bottom. Shoulders are narrower than hips. Has a clearly defined waist.
Rectangle: Almost no curves. Body is straight. Wears the same size for top and bottom. Has a minimal bust. Flat hips and bottom. Almost no waist definition.

Which one is your body type? Do you already know? Can you just tell by looking at the drawing and then looking at yourself in a full length mirror?

You actually cannot alter your basic body shape, because it is based on your bone structure. You can influence on the amount of fat you have, although where you accumulate that fat is genetically determined. No matter how hard we work our muscles, we can only increase their tone and size, but we cannot alter our overall body shape. And we shouldn't obsess about that which we cannot control, remember Epictetus?

The basis to having personal style, is self-acceptance, and from self-acceptance the next step is self-confidence. We need to be self confident in order to show, portray and delight others with our personal style. The idea is for us to understand our basic body shape, and make the best of it! We should learn how to dress for our body shape, so that we can flatter those parts of our body that we are most proud of. In general what we try to achieve no matter what our body shape is, is balance.

Yes, again we find this wonderful word, BALANCE. So we strive to visually show a balanced body. What is a balanced body? It is a body that follows the vertical line of your spine, that is equally distributed on both sides of that "line" whose parts are in proportion, to itself. So it is about achieving visual balance and proportion. Not about trying to be somebody else, or a different shape from ours.

PROPORTIONS

So how do we find our proportions? We use what artists have always used to draw the human body. Our bodies are divided into five sections composed of eight parts. The eight parts are

the head (one head size)
neck to waist (two head-sizes)
midsection or crotch (one head size)
crotch to knees (two head-sizes)
knees to soles of feet (two head-sizes)

we use our own head size as the measurement to guide us.

GOLDEN MEAN RATIO

When we want to dress ourselves with style, we use the Golden Mean ratio, which is 3:5:8. It means we visually divide our body in two parts, from the top of our head to our waist (3 head sizes) from our waist to our feet ( 5 head sizes) for a total of 8 head sizes overall. Our goal is to achieve balance and proportion through our clothing choices. And remember that the most important part of our body we should strive to call attention to, is our face!

Next post: Tools to find out what your body type is....if you don't already know! Stay tuned

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May 28, 2013

What are the Colors for each Season?

by Plesir, in Seasonal Color Analysis

How to find which colors to wear through the Seasonal Color Theory

Part 6 of the #2 Key The 5 Keys to Dressing Well

The wrong colors can make you look older, heavier, tired and even ill. I think it is just as important to know which colors we should avoid, as which colors we should wear! Seriously! If we learn which colors to avoid we are one big step ahead!

The wrong colors also often compete with you for attention, so that when people see you, they actually see your clothes before they see you.

For me the equation goes like this:

Know which colors you like - (just because! they make me you feel good = emotional/psychological meaning)
Know which colors compliment your skin, hair and eye color - (usually you are already wearing some of these colors intuitively, but you can find this out through a color analysis).
Know which colors to avoid, because they can really damage your overall look!.

Your intuition + personal taste + color analysis = your colors

Where the emotional (your intuition) meets the scientific (professional color anaylisis) you have found your colors!

SEASONAL COLOR THEORY

So here let's look at the Seasonal Color Theory. Because there are so many different people in the world, and we are all unique, image consultants have figured out that in order to come up with an effective system to analyze color, we must look at Nature.

And through nature, the easiest, most obvious way to understand color, is through the seasons. All four seasons have unique and very distinct characteristics, and because of the position of the sun in relation to the earth, colors are seen and perceived differently during each season. Imaging the Sun being a huge, big lamp! and we are being illuminated by it all our lives. Each season is like if we were changing the location of the lamp at home. If we did that, things would look differently, and colors would look very different! So with that in mind. Imagine each season and how that light projects in Nature, and you have the Seasonal Colors.

Let's take a look at the color characteristics of each season, and how it relates to individuals.

So we will start with the two seasons that have a Cool base. They are Winter, and Summer. Remember the quick test we did to find out if our skin's undertone is warm or cool? Well if you have a cool undertone, it means you are either a Winter or a Summer. And you will see some of the colors that will compliment your own personal coloring below.

WINTER

A winter colored individual has a lot of visual contrast (e.g. dark hair, light eyes, pale skin) therefore can wear very intense, bright, and deep colors. They wear well navy, black, charcoal and bright white as their neutrals.

Winter colors are cool, clear and dark to light intensity. Think of the winter landscape colors. In the low light of winter colors appear darker, but on a bright day with the sun reflecting off snow colors appear pale and icy. Winter is icy, colors are seen in their purest form.

SUMMER

Summer colored individuals are like summer breeze, serene and calm. Colors are delicate, their contrast is minimum, their main characteristic is that they are soft, the opposite of Winter in intensity. But they share the same cool-undertone.

Summer colors are muted and medium-light to medium-dark in value. Think of seeing the landscape through the summer heat. These colors are muted, paler versions of Winter’s. The light colors are creamy pastel rather than icy.

Here you can see a chart that compares fabric swatches for both Seasons, you can see that the cool base is shared by both Winter and Summer. With the difference that the Winter colors are darker, brighter and more intense. The summer colors are muted, they have more white added, they are "washed" out and not so clear or bright. Winter and Summer have the same temperature (Cool), but they have different Value (lightness/darkness) and different Chroma (brightness/softness). If you are confused take a look at The Basics of Color.

Now let's start with the two Seasons that share a warmth undertone, they are Autumn and Spring.

AUTUMN

An autumn colored person has more green tones in their veins. They look great in neutral colors like beige, ecru, warm olive, rich golden browns. The earth tones are perfect and look gorgeous on Autumn individuals.
Autumn colors are warm,

medium-light to medium-dark intensity. Think of the leaves of trees during Autumn, colors of rich burnt oranges, reds, golden yellows and yellowish greens.

Now let's look at Spring!

SPRING

Spring colored individuals have a warm undertone, and bright coloring, usually their eyes are a bright blue or green. They have medium to low contrast.
Spring colors are also warm, but clear and bright with medium to light intensity. Think of the bright clear colors of spring flowers.

Both Spring and Autumn colors have a Warm undertone, Autumn colors are deeper, richer and have more yellow. Spring colores are brighter, lighter, and although have a warm undertone, they are clear and bright (just like Winter).

May 22, 2013

The Power of Perception

by Plesir, in Self Esteem

Part 4 of The 5 Keys to Dressing Well

The Power of Perception

Today I am going to tell you a story:

Linda's Miracle Stone
Linda wanted to be elected the President of the Student Council. She was running against two other candidates. Both of the other girls had previous experience at the council. One of them was even the captain of the soccer team, and the other was involved in so many school activities that she was considered one of the most popular girls at school. Linda knew she had a tough contest in front of her. She needed something that would make her win, so she went online and she googled for "how to win an election" and she found so many articles, and webpages, a lot of them in other languages, it seemed everybody in this world wanted power! She especially found the largest amount of articles about "winning elections" and "staying in power indefinitely" written in Spanish.

She was convinced by a website that sold "winner's charms", they were from this high ancient mountain in the northern part of a very small region in India. A region that held the largest amount of Saints per square feet on the planet! She went through everything the website sold, until she found the one that she needed. The charm was a round stone, that she should wear on her collar, as a necklace. It had a sentence written in Sanskrit that read; "the owner of this Charm will win whatever election or contest she participates on, as long as she wears it, she will be the winner". Fifty dollars later, she knew she had found exactly what she needed.

A week passed and she received the package at home. She only had two days before the election to prepare, so she opened the box, found the stone, and borrowed a very thin silver chain necklace from her mom, and started wearing it. She felt so incredibly great! she could already feel the power of the stone! Those two days prior to the debate that will decide her future as President of the Student Council, she felt so confident, she even felt prettier. She started to prepare herself for the debate. She came up with lots of ideas of things she wanted to change and improve for her fellow students, because she knew, she was the winner, the stone was her guarantee.

The day of the election came, and Linda was ready, she knew that with the charm in place everything would work and she would win, it was just a matter of time!

The election ran smoothly, each of the girls spoke confidently, and Linda was the last one. She stood up and she told every body what her plans were, and she spoke to them as if she was already doing everything that needed to be done. As if she was the winner.

Nobody had spoken like that before, it seemed all the other candidates were "expecting" they were "hoping" they were "waiting", but there was something different about Linda. Linda was already the Student Council's President. She won the election.

When she got home, she was overly excited, she told her parents, and they congratulated her, and made especial dinner plans to celebrate it! When they were at this very fancy restaurant, her mother complimented her on how she looked, she loved the way the thin silver chain necklace looked on her daughter. Linda asked her mom if she liked the stone, but her mom didn't know which stone she was talking about. Linda was not wearing any stone. Linda checked with her own hands all through the necklace and the stone wasn't there. When they got back home, the first thing Linda did was go through the box an there she found it. The stone had never left the box, or had it? Only her mom knew.

Linda's mom knew her daughter didn't need charms. She just needed a boost of self confidence, She just needed to perceive herself as the winner, in order to create that reality for her. And she did.

The way we perceive ourselves directly influences the way others perceive us. If you think you are a winner, you will be to others. If you feel pretty, you will be perceived that way by others. So if you already don't have a good and positive self concept, what are you waiting for?

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful” Sophia Loren

You can look for a psychologist or therapist, and spend thousands of dollars and many years analyzing your feelings, and your past, the causes why you don't feel good enough. I am not saying you shouldn't, you might need to do just that. What you can do, that is a faster solution is start working on the outside. Start dressing how you really want to dress, start taking care of your grooming, more posts on that will come soon...If you take care of the exterior, the interior will start transforming itself. Inside and outside are interrelated, interconnected, we are a system, when we change one part of ourselves, the rest is also modified to adapt to the new reality. It is easier and faster to start with the way we dress. People can see the results straight away, we start to relate differently and we modify our reality, one day at a time.
Walk with confidence, you have got style and it shows!

May 22, 2013

Defining your Style

by Plesir, in PERSONAL STYLE

Find or Define your Personal Style - Part 3 of The 5 Keys to Dressing Well

"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly" - Epictetus, AD 55–135.

Epictetus is one of my favorite philosophers. He was a Greek stoic, a "practical" philosopher, he viewed the role of philosophy as the guiding light for people to lead better lives. One of his teachings is that suffering occurs from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. Well indeed, that which was written thousands of years ago, is still relevant today. How we "adorn" ourselves, is totally within our control, then we should strive to do it as best as we can. But first, as he says, we should answer the question: "Who am I?" Let's see if I can help you answer that question when it comes to your Style personality.

Fashion can be bought, anybody can dress fashionably, and it is not a matter of economic power anymore. Nowadays you can buy fashion at very affordable prices. And that means fashion is accessible to almost everybody. Along with the concept of fast fashion, the globalization, the outsourcing of factories to third world countries, and we know how that is going...I will discuss this further on another post. But we cannot deny that fast fashion as fast food, can be detrimental to us all, on the long term.

Fashion comes and goes mainly as Trends. Trends can be a new prints, new hem lines, new silhouettes, a new vibe, a hair color, a hair style, a color, a type of handbag, a type of shoe, a certain rule...etc, etc, etc, you just have to follow them and stick to the rules of the season, and you will be fashionably “uniformed”. But Style, comes from who you are, it is unique, it has no rules but yours, and no trends of the seasons. You are expressing who you are all the time, to the outside world, so it is imperative that you can identify your own style, therefore you won’t be swept away by every trend and fad that comes along.

Every time we get dressed we are asserting parts of our personality, we are asserting our identity. When we are aware of our own style, we dress putting our own selves first, we dress to tell others the story of who we are.

In the previous post I asked you to think about any Style Icons, that you may have. What did you think about that question? Was it hard?
How many people could you think of?
What do you admire in them? Do you identify some aspect of your personality with theirs?

Usually what makes people style icons is how they portray their uniqueness, they are not afraid to show the rest of the world, who they are. And they are not afraid to NOT FOLLOW. In fact, they are Non-followers, they don’t abide by somebody else's rules! They have their own! They have learned from others who they admired what was important in defining their style. They have a great sense of taste and proportion. They have a very strong sense of self, they are self confident, because they know what makes them great and they are not afraid of showing it, in fact they have learned how to showcase successfully those parts of themselves they are most proud of to the rest of the world!

You don’t necessarily need to be in show-business to understand the relevance of taking care of your image. But it is true that there are certain “careers” in which people are more aware, and have a primordial need to learn about Image and to find the ways of communicating effectively their own unique Style. We are all the stars of our own lives, so no matter what your job is, or who your Style Icons are, you can and will learn to define your own unique Style.

Think also about the brands or stores where you usually buy your clothes and accessories, do you think they match your personality? Grab a lookbook from that store/s and see if you can picture yourself in it? I am not saying that you have to look like a model, maybe you do, maybe you don’t, it is irrelevant. Can you see yourself wearing the looks put together in the lookbook? If not, why are you shopping there?

Now remember I asked you to find a brand or store you “ADORE”, find their lookbook, and see if you can picture yourself there? Do you get excited just thinking about it? Wouldn’t it be glorious if you had the chance to be on their lookbook? Wouldn’t you love to be dressed like that? If don’t feel that way then maybe you don’t adore that brand after all!

Do you think that sometimes you just like some items in a store, and you would never wear others? It happens, and if it is happening to you, that is a very good sign. I will tell you about that in the following posts. But for now, stick with me here and realize that we don’t have to “marry” a brand, we are just trying to define and find our own style. To do so successfully we need to understand why we are attracted to certain brands or style icons, or stores, and why we absolutely would never wear or dare to enter others.

That is our next step.

Try to find some brands or stores, or Style Icons, that you absolutely DO NOT LIKE. Think about what it is about them that you don’t like? Do they remind you of something? Don’t you like the way they put looks together in their displays? Don’t you like that maybe they are too “androgynous” or masculine, and you are quite the feminine romantic? Maybe it is the color palette they always use, is it too muted? Gloomy? And you are a Happy go Lucky kind of girl? Just think of what is it that doesn’t resonate with you, because usually it means we value the opposite characteristic. Understanding what you don’t like at all, is a very good way to find out about your style, in case you get stuck, and can’t think of anything, this is a great tool!

I will give you another tool that will help you to realize what your style is:

Ask somebody you trust and like, and that you admire for their own style. Usually we have a girl-friend who dresses uniquely, who has a very strong sense of self, and is confident enough to wear what makes her feel and look great! You don’t necessarily have to love the way she dresses, most probably you would never dress like her, but she does so effortlessly, or so it seems, she must know a thing or two! Talk to her, and ask her, How does she perceive you, in terms of the way you dress? Can she point to you some ideas about how you dress, or characteristics of your personality that she really likes? Those can help you define your style.

Remember we are all the time communicating who we are to others, so it is a great practice to ask somebody else: "How am I coming through?" Maybe she says that you have "kind of a grungy look"…and you actually view yourself as a feminine romantic who wished to come across as "girly and polished"… Then you might be doing something wrong! You are either not that much of a feminine romantic after all, or you are not dressing according to your personality. So think about any incongruences you find along the way.

So by now, you should have a notebook or a mental note of lots of answers. Go through them, sort them out. Do a quick calculation, does any one idea or thing come up more times than others? Maybe you realized you always shop at The Gap for your clothes, and The Gap’s brand characteristics are simple and classic. Then you talked to your friend and she said according to her you are a "classic". That is definitely giving you a clue as to how you are dressing now. Think if that is really your own style. Are you communicating what you really want to communicate? Try to come with some conclusions as to what is your style.

Are you very confused?

Do not worry, I am here to help, and let me remind you of something Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, and I always need to remind myself:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves”

Till tomorrow…keep posted, as more on Defining your Style is coming your way…

May 12, 2013

How to SIMPLIFY what to wear?

by Plesir, in what to wear

Spring Cluster by lookbook-you

This is an example of a SIMPLE "CLUSTER"

To make a cluster with what you already own in your closet just, pick:

three bottom parts
five tops
two pairs of shoes: one flat, one high heels
one scarf or shall
one handbag
a couple of accessories, in this case I just picked a hairband, because I love hair accessories and I want to really simplify. But if what you want is to make very different looks, the best choice, is to incorporate totally different accessories with each look.

Do you have your wardrobe classified by clusters? Have you ever tried?

March 01, 2013

What is it about PEPLUM?

by Plesir, in TRENDING

Let's go straight to the point....because you really want to know, why is peplum a lasting trend, and not just a fad....
Peplum is one of the best tools to create a waist where there is none. In the case of many women who have naturally a rectangular or oval natural silhouette, we image consultants and stylists encourage the use of peplum to create volume below the natural waist, and visually project a waist. But what makes it great is that many women who do have waist but have lost it momentarily (hopefully) after having babies, or due to medical reasons.....(we don't want to think its merely out of not taking good care of yourself) but I know it happens....It works for them also!!!!

Who should maybe be cautious about wearing peplum? If you are below average in height, and that is 5 feet 4 inches, or 1 meter 63 cm.

Why? It will make you appear even shorter, by cutting your line abruptly in a horizontal direction. Try it though if you are very slim, as you always will appear taller than you are, or wear the highest heels you own, like the girl wearing the light green top, if you must wear that peplum dress, skirt, or shirt!

Que pasa que no dejo de ver Peplum por todos lados!?
Las consultoras y estilistas de imagen sabemos que lo que hace más femenina la figura es la Cintura! El Peplum es El Salvador de todas aquellas mujeres que por contextura física y silueta natural no tienen una cintura definida. También las mujeres que han dado a luz recientemente, o que han tenido problemas médicos, pueden quedar menos en forma. Todas ellas son las candidatas oficiales para usar Peplum.

Quien no debería usarlo? Si eres muy baja de altura, y estas por debajo del promedio, que es aprox. 1 metro 63 cm, debes tener cuidado y ponerte tacos altos para equilibrar la figura.

El Peplum cuanto más obvio, más corta tu figura en dos de manera horizontal. Un consejo es también usar top and bottom del mismo color, asi creas una línea vertical en contraste!

Hay de todo ahora, Peplum en faldas, vestidos, en todo tipo de tops, prueba los que más te gustan y juega combinandolos!

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