Creating Focus on Your Assets

Focal points are created by detail on clothing – whether it’s colour, shiny fabrics, pockets, distressing on jeans, ruffles, pattern, belts, beading or jewellery. You can use detail to draw attention to your assets and away from areas you’d rather people didn’t notice. Focus on Your Assets by imogenl featuring Lipsy   You can see [...]

Jeans and Jewellery

Metscan asked about Jan’s attitudes to jewellery and jeans – here is her reply – FYI – in New Zealand, jandals are their word for flip-flops which in Australia we know as thongs! “In respect to jeans and jewellery, I think you have to take care when you with putting the two together , it [...]

Body Proportions Explained – The Effect of a Large Bust

I’ve had a couple of commenters who have wanted to know what to do with their large bust, given their body proportions. Interestingly, even if you have a balanced waist, a large bust can give you the appearance of a short waist, as by the time the clothes go out over your bust and come [...]

How to Hide Your Tummy

So many women feel that their stomach is a region that they’d rather people didn’t notice. Whether it’s expanded due to childbirth, was never there to start with, or just age and those extra glasses of wine and chocolates have taken their toll. So here are some ways of combatting this as an issue. 1. [...]

How to Wear Accessories

So many of my clients feel that they’re accessory challenged – they don’t know what to choose, or how to wear them, or put a selection together (if you want to see someone who does it really well – check out Karen who really has the hang of it). I wrote this article for YOU! [...]

Body Shapes Explained – A Shape (pear)

Now to the classic womanly shape of the A, which has the healthiest distribution of fat and the least likely to have heart disease (you lucky things!). The A shape woman has shoulders that are narrower than her hips/thighs, so you can check this by measuring both at their widest points and seeing if there [...]

To Belt or Not To Belt?

Just perusing some shopping websites and looking at the new fashions coming in, and I’ve noticed lots and lots of waist belting – the question is should you follow this trend or ignore it completely? For example in this outfit from Spiegel – the belt is at the waist. It’s only a good option if [...]