You’ve probably seen those spreads in fashion magazines advising you how to wear this season’s new colors and fashions if you are 30, 40, 50, 60 and older. Uh huh…riiight.
This is one of my pet peeves: you just can’t lump everyone in a generational pool.[...]
In chapter three of Shopping for the Real You I offer four methods to help you determine your individual style, based on seven basic archetypes. The amount of each archetype that is expressed in someone’s personality, facial features, and body type creates an overall picture of their unique style.
One of the more interesting and unusual of these archetypes is the ethereal Click to read more >
Mom jeans, skinny jeans, boyfriend jeans: everybody wears them (well almost everyone —there likely are few people – somewhere - who wouldn’t be caught dead in them.)
Fortunately for us jeans lovers, this season jeans are hot! [...]
My hairdresser, a very handsome young man, wears the same attire every day: a black Hanes t-shirt, black jeans that are cut off just above the knee, black socks and black leather high top boots. Any skin surface that does show is covered with some colorful and pretty magnificent tattoos.
Now, you’d think that he just throws on what he was wearing the day before, but no. This is an extremely well thought-out uniform. He directs the same perfectionist’s critical eye to his attire that he does to each hair […]
Here's an exercise I do while leafing through magazines and catalogs to see what’s new in the stores and what might work in my own wardrobe. It helps me avoid impulse buys that can end up hanging in my closet unworn because they don't go with anything else.
This is how it works: If I see something I like, I look at it for a minute — keeping in mind the color, cut, trim details and proportions. Then, I look at myself in the mirror. [. . .]