Fabric – How your Personality affects your choice of prints and patterns

So we’ve looked at all the physical aspects of fabric, but now lets take a look at your personality and how that may affect your choice of fabrics. If you would describe your style as of the Classic variety, you will chose plain fabrics, or maybe a discreet pinstripe at most. You will like clean [...]

Fabric – How to Choose Patterns and Prints

Another element of fabric is the pattern or print. How to choose one that works for you? One of the main influencers on which patterns we may choose is based on our personality, which I won’t get into on this post. But what I will go into here is how to choose a physically flattering [...]

Which Sort of Fabric Drape to Choose for My Body

Now the DRAPE of fabric is about body type, (or somatype – that’s Greek for body type) – ectomorph, mesomorph, endomorph, and this is not necessarily obvious from apparance, but from ‘feel’. Someone who is skeletal (ectomorph) needs a stiffer more structured fabric, because if you put them in a highly drapey/floppy fabric like chiffon, [...]

How to Choose Flattering Texture in Fabrics

Textured fabrics can be anything from lace to cable knits, devore velvet to quilted fabrics.What is best to do is match your level of texture, in your hair and skin, to texture in fabrics. So someone with straight smooth hair and fine smooth skin will look best in flat or fabrics that match their personal [...]

All About Choosing Fabrics

I was just over at The Space Between My Peers and there was a post about texture and drape of fabrics, where everyone was confused about whether or not these kinds of fabrics suited them. So I thought I’d try and clarify the issues. There are a number of elements to fabric – texture, drape, [...]