Have You Forgotten What You Wore Last Spring
I understand how disheartening it can be to feel like you've lost your fashion sense with the change of Season.
Building a wardrobe that complements your unique features (complexion, and body shape) plus personal style can feel like a daunting task.
It's not uncommon to feel overwhelmed or discouraged when your wardrobe doesn't seem to align with the latest trends or make you feel confident in your appearance.
However, there is a solution that can help you regain your confidence: planning your outfits for the upcoming season using the clothes you already own.
This approach is not only practical but also cost-effective. It allows you to make the most out of your current wardrobe while still keeping up with the latest trends.
Trends keep us inspired and make fashion fun but we don't have to buy into them.
Looking at the trends will have us wearing our own clothes in brand-new and inspiring ways.
Start with your basics.
Blazers are back in big time (you already have...
What Contrasts Do You Tend To Wear
Of course, you have a naturally born contrast level that suits you the best but it's important that your personality comes into play here too.
High Contrast: Consists of black to white within your outfit but navy to white is also considered high contrast. If you suit high contrast (or love wearing high contrast), your best shoe colours to collect are a colour you are not wearing in your outfit (it's important not to repeat a colour again on your feet), gold (to contrast your cool colours) or a tan (light tan if you wear mainly dark bottoms and a dark tan if you wear mainly light bottoms).
Medium Contrast: Is white (or all forms of off-whites) and a colour worn together. A dark shoe (in either black or darkest tan) will work hardest in your wardrobe to frame your medium contrast outfits. When you do pair a true off-white with navy within your outfit, this also takes your outfit down to medium contrast. This is when silver or bright white shoes become most...
What Style Of Dress Suits Which Body Shape
Buying a dress that suits you perfectly is all about taking your body shape into consideration.
Let me break it down by describing the natural lines that you should look for in your perfect dress.
Inverted triangle: Suit a large flowy shoulder that goes out way further than the actual shoulder. The float should then come back into the waist. The more feminine in fabric, print, and style the better. The bottom half should taper in dramatically to follow the leg line. Separates of a top with a skirt are your best bet rather than a one-piece dress.
An Hourglass: Suits a dress that is structured to follow the curvy in and out curves with a definite waist and then goes out again at hips and thighs before venturing strongly back in again. Be sure to fit your shoulders correctly. Your best balance is following your natural lines very closely.
Rectangle: You work best buying separate pieces in the same fabric and colour that can be worn together to...
Spring Trend Loafers
Loafers - they never date.
You can wear loafers all year round and a common trend in Autumn and Winter is to wear them with a pair of socks.
I recommend your socks to be either cream or grey to keep it classic.
In spring, however, my favourite look for loafers is with a pair of cuffed jeans or ankle grazing pants.
The width of your jeans leg and the width of your cuff determines the kind of loafers that will work hard in your wardrobe.
The first set of photos below with a straighter-leg pair of jeans and a tad wider cuff works best with a chunkier more solid pair of loafers.
The first slim line black patent pair is leaving me a little unbalanced with these wider cut jeans.
All three of the loafers above work with my slightly slimmer straight leg jeans with the little bit smaller cuff.
Also, be mindful of your loafer colours to frame your jeans. Do you mainly own light, medium or dark jeans?
My Hair colour type suits...
Which Kinds Of Shoes Suit You
Which Kinds Of Shoes Suit You
Shoes.
Do you suit chunky more heavy shoes or slim and dainty?
Believe it or not, it actually comes down to your body shape.
Following your natural leg line is your best bet for dressing your body shape.
A Triangle body shape with a heavier bottom half works well with a shoe giving that same visual impression.
An Inverted triangle body shape angles in down the bottom with fullness up the top so suits a slim shoe.
An Hourglass cuts into a definite waist and then goes out again at hips and thighs before venturing strongly back in again right at the bottom so your leg line prefers a slim shoe.
The Rectangle body shape of straight up and down works best when using either the Hourglass or inverted triangle body shape dressing guide.
They are so lucky in that they can choose which body shape to dress like but the best shoe will always be a slim shoe.
Read my Blog post about long boots and skinny jeans
Now...
How To Wear and Choose Your Boots
How To Wear and Choose Your Boots
Boots.
Let's take a peek inside your wardrobe to see which style and colour would work the hardest for you.
First off, a skirt with a split can be worn with either a long pair of boots or ankle boots.
As long as you can see the complete boot at one time or another.
A slimline skirt prefers a slimline pair of boots and a slouchy skirt loves a slouchy pair of boots.
A slimline boot can still be made to work with a slouchy skirt however (it won't look as cool but it will still work), which does make a slimline pair of boots a better investment.
So if you can only afford to invest in one pair, go for a slimline one.
An ankle boot will work really well with a skirt also and gives a lovely balance of masculine to feminine (ankle boots are traditionally workhorses in the protection of feet and ankles when a job was needing to be done).
Just make sure there is a skin gap above the boots before the skirt hemline...
All The Denims
All The Denims
Denim on denim on denim.
Yes, it's trending again. Now I know that you probably wore it years and years ago so aren't too keen on jumping back in but if you feel like giving it a go, but here are a few tips that will have you nailing it.
You are going to have a natural contrast that feels just right.
My colour type prefers a silhouette to be all in one denim tone which keeps the base of my outfit low contrast.
My first outfit is low contrast where all three denim items sit around the same level. The next two are medium contrast with medium denim jeans and medium denim shirt, finished off with dark denim trench and then dark denim dress/coat.
White boots are my colour of choice to frame medium denim jeans.
My outfit below has light denim jeans with a light denim shirt topped off with a dark and bright denim jacket. This outfit is more high contrast.
I like to contrast my light jeans with dark boots.
Looking at...
What Width Should Your Belt Be?
Belts are an important part of your wardrobe but do you own too many? Most Women do, so you are far from alone.
As a Hair colour type with pink skin, I only need one belt colour and that's in a cool dark brown and the right width for me is as equally important
How wide your belt should be is about the scale of your proportions, and the size of your waist dip-ins (I explain this more in my video below).
And remember to always make sure that your shoes don't match the same colour as your belt when you can see both. Having no repetition in your outfit keeps the eye moving rather than bouncing back and forth.
You can watch this quick video to see it all in action.
How to choose a leather jacket
New winter trend: Leather jackets.
It's actually leather everything, skirts, pants, dresses, jackets, trench coats and even shirts but leather jackets really are a forever thing.
So before you invest, let's have a look at what would work the hardest in your wardrobe.
- Always buy your leather jackets in a neutral colour to keep them traditional and a forever classic (I've had mini since 2011).
- Do you like a strong collar? I prefer no collar so that I can change how it looks near my face depending on what I wear it with.
- Make sure your leather jacket is not the same colour or tone as the shoes you tend to wear the most in the cooler weather.
Crop length leather jackets will prefer to be worn with dresses, skirts, shorts with boots, high-waisted pants, high-waisted relaxed denim jeans and denim flares. 
Below hip-length jackets (below and like mine above) will work back with everything along with skinny jeans easily. 
Oversized loose and...
How Do You Wear Your Boots With skinny Jeans
How Do You Wear Your Boots With Skinny Jeans
Do you love the over-the-knee boots look with jeans? Or even just long boots with skinny jeans?
Me too.
There are two body shapes that wear this look the very best. They are the inverted triangle and rectangle body shape.
The reason for this is these two body shapes need to follow their slim leg line and nothing pulls this off better than a pair of slim boots worn with skinny jeans.
Whereas a triangle and hourglass body shape has more lower half curves to kick around so they work best with a pair of jeans that taper or have a tapering cuff at the bottom.
This is not to say that everyone can't give this style a try.
Let's have a look at some style rules to make this achievable for everyone.
When your boots come up higher than the bottom of your calf muscle dip in, they then become a part of your entire leg line.
It's important that you keep that leg line as one...
