MENTHER STYLING
HOW TO DRESS LIKE A BOSS
You don’t have to continue waking up every morning and dread getting dressed.
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o you sometimes look at a well-dressed, confident woman and think; “How does she do it?” Do you spend a lot of time thinking about how you’ve missed the mark on your style and what you wear to work every day, but have no energy to change it or don’t even know where to begin?
The first principle is understanding your shape. Look, I’m not about to tell you what kind of fruit you are (ever heard of the pear or apple shape?), because that’s just not how I roll. However, it will benefit you to understand which silhouettes are best suited for your shape so that you know what to wear
Here’s the thing, what we wear and how we wear it tells a story. It can either say; “Hey, I’ve kind of given up” or it could say; “I feel like a leader and I know where I’m headed”. I’d like to encourage you today by giving you some industry tips on how to dress for success. There are styling principles that, when put into practice, will work in every wardrobe and almost any style profile. I’ll be discussing three of them today.
when you finally deliver your presidential acceptance speech. We all have that one dress we feel fantastic in and always get compliments on. I want you to analyse that dress; think about the design and the fabric choice and how it falls on your body. Does it hug your shape or accentuate a certain part of your body? Is it a specific colour that really suits you? Taking note of the elements of that dress (or item that gets complimented) this will really help you pin down which silhouettes work well on your shape and will help you to recreate similar outfits with different items of clothing. Secondly, and probably my favourite of the three, is the principle of ‘sparking joy’. We all binge-watched ‘Tidying Up’ on Netflix (if you haven’t yet, go and
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