Horizontal Lines — Evaluate Your Accessories
Like design lines in clothing, accessories create horizontal lines. As with clothing, the placement of these lines is important. A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories. …
Five Body Element System
Accessory Shape — Evaluate Your Accessories
You can determine your best accessory shape by looking at your Body Elements. I’ve always thought of accessories as the exclamation point on a woman’s outfit. …
7 Steps To Evaluate Your Clothes
Over the last 7 weeks you learned the process to evaluate your clothes, more importantly how to evaluate your favorite outfit so you can learn how to duplicate it. By understanding the design elements of your favorite outfit, you can fill your closet with clothes you love to wear. In this post I will review …
Closet Color Scheme — Evaluate Your Clothes
Determining your closet color scheme is the next step in the process of evaluating your favorite outfit. The color combination you determine is one of the elements necessary for creating a closet full of clothes that you love to wear. In the last post you determined colors you love to wear and in this post …
Your Body Knows
By now, you know what clues your body elements are telling you. But you question How will I really know the perfect spot for lines between my waist and hips? What color combinations will really pop the color of my skin, hair and eyes? Will I really be able to determine the right print scale …
Scale Strategy – Bring It Together
You now know the scale clues from your color contrast, body proportions and body frame size. It’s time to create an overall scale strategy by bringing these clues together. Have you ever tried on a top in a store that looks great on your body? You need something to wear to a party, the overall …
Body Frame Size — Bone Size Clue
Your bone’s size gives you a clue to your ideal size of prints and accessories through your Body Frame Size. This is the last of the Five Body Elements. Have you heard the expression of being “big boned” or “small boned”? I’m small boned and through experimentation, figured out large scale prints and accessories just …
Body Proportions — Out Of Balance?
If you don’t understand your Body Proportions you might be feeling out of balance. Ask yourself these questions: Are some areas of your body seem longer and others seem shorter when you look in the mirror? Feel like some clothes emphasizes the longer and/or the shorter areas? Do you feel out of balance when wearing …
What Do You Want People To See First: You Or Your Print?
What Are The Colors of Your Skin, Hair and Eyes Telling You? Part 4 — Scale of Prints and Accessories Have you ever seen a woman wearing a print so big that it looks like the print is wearing her instead of her wearing it? All you see is the print. The problem is that …
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The “Three Bears” of Color Combinations – The Relative Lightness and Darkness of the Color Combinations
The Relative Lightness and Darkness of the Color Combinations In the last post you learned that color combinations are just like the “Three Bears.” Some are overpowering (too hard). Others are blah (too soft) and a few are just right. You learned there are two types of color combinations: Other colors on the color wheel …