Style Tip #13: Highlight Your Legs
To highlight your legs: cover your top half to avoid competition, and knee-length pencil skirts with sheer or textured tights. Avoid capris and midcalf skirts that shorten your legs!
2010/06/12
To highlight your legs: cover your top half to avoid competition, and knee-length pencil skirts with sheer or textured tights. Avoid capris and midcalf skirts that shorten your legs!
To highlight your arms: use decorative necklines, multistrand necklaces, and moisturizing lotion to hightlight sleek biceps and triceps. Avoid tops that cover your assets!
To highlight your butt: use butt ruching, pocket designs, and tops that hit above the waist. Avoid pants/jeans with flap pockets because they increase volume but not shape!
To highlight your chest: use deep v-necks, unbuttoned collared shirts, and a well-fitted, seamless bra. Avoid turtlenecks and shirts that hide your collarbone…
To highlight your waist: use sharp color contrasts (instead of muted combos), waistline details or a great belt cinched at the midriff! Avoid unstructured dresses, chunky knits and baggy blouses…
Men & shirts: a few have little itsy bitsy teeny holes in them…likely from keeping the plastic on them so, let them go. Any shirt that has a frayed or slightly discolored collar, just say ‘goodbye’; and consider any shirt where you can no longer button the top button as too small!! Women & sweaters: ‘fabric shavers are great wardrobe extenders (used for removing the occasional peeling) but if you have to do the entire sweater and it takes more
Men & shoes: remove empty shoe boxes, discard any casual shoes older than four years and with more than a 1-inch sole, and throw away any shoe you’ve been ‘planning’ to get re-soled across the last year and haven’t…you haven’t worn it and obviously didn’t miss it! Women & tees: ‘search and destroy’ any tees with stains (or turn them into cleaning rags), throw away all tees with underarm stains (you know you have them….tsk tsk tsk), and chuck any
Forget trying to hold it together in the middle of the winter blues — for instant chicness, simply belt your coat! A few belt options include: J Crew leather equestrian belt, $29.50 (equestrian brown, approx 1-inch, brass metal ware)..,my favorite! ASOS metal keeper skinny belt, $8.62 (tan, approx 3/4-inch, brass metal ware) J Crew oval buckle belt, $29.50 (multiple colors, approx 1/2-inch, nickle metal ware) Aldo offard skinny belt, $20 (black, approx 1/2-inch, silver metal ware)
Your suits should not make you sweat Your suit should keep you warm Heavier suits should be worn between November and the end of March …..in the meantime, dryclean them, remove the plastic when you get them back, and store with cedar!
Tell your dry cleaner you want your white shirts cleaned without starch and pressed by hand. It’s pricier but worth it—they’ll last longer. After all, if you’re investing in the shirt, it’s a good ideal to make sure your cost-per-wear stays low…
Make no mistake about it – men have it easier when it comes to fashion and style than women do! Men can purchase two or three pair of shoes and all is well! Men can travel with one suit and four shirts for a week and no one says anything! Men can wear a navy blue suit with black shoes and accessories and all is fine-and-dandy!
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