Fashion Style Archives - Shopping for the Real You

Creating a Colorful wardrobe…and a Colorful Life

Big news! I have FINALLY finished my color course! This week I’m recording the voiceover and will then upload it to my Teachable platform. I’ll let you know immediately when it’s available, and as always, I’ll be sending you a code for a HUGE discount as one of my loyal readers. Thinking about color so deeply for so many years had a major impact on my life. I became even more selective about how I use it in my wardrobe. It also made me notice and evaluate everything in my home from the perspective of color. [...] Click to read more > >

Andrea Pflaumer2026-04-20T22:46:09-07:00

How to “Copy” a Cool Outfit

Alyssa Beltempo

Many of my readers and style clients have asked me to suggest a celebrity or person in the public eye who has similar style elements to their own. They figure they can get inspiration or simply copy what that person is wearing. It’s a one-and-done idea, and I certainly get it. Click to read more >

Andrea Pflaumer2025-10-06T12:48:12-07:00

How Personal Style is Determined

I get asked about this constantly. It's the basis of a course I’m working on that will go deep into the fundamentals of style essences. But I have noticed something increasingly obvious lately. Style is determined by more than just our facial features, our height, and the shape of our bodies. There is an energetic quality we express that sometimes just isn’t obvious from external indicators. Click to read more >

Andrea Pflaumer2025-04-09T13:36:55-07:00

Iris Apfel: What Made Her So Famous?

Iris Apfel Amazon Print

You may have heard that Iris Apfel, the self-described “geriatric starlet,” died earlier this year at the age of 102. Many of us learned about her only fairly recently through her most recent incarnation because she broke so many barriers about what constitutes fashion and who is “allowed” to represent it. But despite all the media hoopla about a 90+ year-old being an overnight sensation, her style roots, and the range of her influence over several decades, ran very deep. Click to read more >

Andrea Pflaumer2024-06-12T11:20:40-07:00

How to “Cheat” on Your Style

Photo by Anna Shvets on Unsplash

I know and love my style. It’s comfortable, familiar, I trust it, and it suits me well, as every good relationship should. But that doesn’t mean that periodically I’m not wooed by a new trend [...]

Andrea Pflaumer2022-10-06T16:28:33-07:00