When focusing on creating a true “working” wardrobe there are several things that must be done to ensure success! Stay focused and give yourself time to learn how to build your best closet. A great working wardrobe may take up to a year or more simply because of the seasons. Check out these tips to a better wardrobe and you are sure to stay on track!
- When buying basic wardrobe items (suits, skirts, blouses, slacks & jackets) focus on solid colors. Neutral shades are easier to mix and match and never go out of style.
- Knowing your natural skin tone will be your first clue to what neutrals are best for you. A warm skin tone has gold undertones. A cool skin tone has pink undertones. (warm colors have golden undertones such as orange, yellow, gold, rust and olive green-cool colors have blue undertones such as navy, purple and white)
- Stay predominately within your natural undertones for prints.
- Remember to balance stronger clothing colors with stronger makeup colors and softer clothing colors with softer makeup colors
- Your personal neutrals are best shoes and handbags (navy, black, brown, etc.)
- Don’t wear shoes that are a lighter color than the predominate color in your outfit.
- Gold or silver can be worn by anyone as long as you are wearing your correct makeup and wardrobe colors.
- Choose darker colors skins and leather belts in Winter and Fall and lighter, more fun in Spring and Summer.
- If you want to look taller, wear one color from head-to-toe
- Color impacts your appearance most when it is worn at the face. Therefore if you are considered a “cool” season, touches of warm can be worn best when used as accessories or anything not closet to the face. Similarly, touches of cool can be added to a “warm” season if it is not worn at the face.
A better wardrobe doesn’t just “happen”. It is a deliberate effort that creates harmony in your closet and life! You will reap the rewards of a job well done and always:
“Look Good, Feel Great and Have FUN Doing It!”
Regardless of whether or not the economy is booming, many people continue to struggle getting a wardrobe together. It really is easy to create a great wardrobe without spending more money! In fact, with as few as 9 pieces in your wardrobe you can create 20 outfits.
Ah, Summer…About this time every year, I start to cringe as I ponder the swimsuit season. Should I or should I not slide into a bathing suit this season.
It’s one thing to be working toward a goal, but something altogether different when change keeps getting in the way of achieving that goal. Having pondered this long and hard I came up with these ideas that may help you move forward, achieve that goal and allow yourself to tweak things along the way.
My daughter graduated recently from college. It was a hallmark event in her life. 
I think as a parent, we may have done our children a disservice by giving them so much “stuff” already. I know that I’m a bit guilty of that.Even though my children have always worked, they have never known what it feels like to truly “need” something.
Sometimes what’s in your closet just feels boring and has no umph. Sometimes you just can’t see the “forest through the trees” as they say. Pieces have been hanging in there for so long you can no longer “see” the possibilities that it holds in an up to date look.
uniform of the day is in front of us 365 days a year.
