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 colou
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.
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
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.
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 longer fit jackets need to show more ...
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 vis
Do You Own The Right Boots For Your Wardrobe
Before you go long boots shopping (or even when shopping in your own wardrobe), the first and most important thing is to note what colour skirts and dresses you tend to wear over Winter.
Contrasting your last hem line is the key.
I enjoy wearing a midi boot (stops below where my calf muscle begins) with my long skirts with splits.
A long skirt with a strongly defined split shows off a midi boot completely and that should be your goal - expose the entire boot always. Even if it's just through the split.
If I wanted a second pair to wear with these skirts (above), I would go for a warm tan colour. If I was wearing warm tan midi boots, my hair would be considered the dark in these outfits.
Over-the-knee boots are a big trend this winter but I have had mine for years and years and wear them every single Winter (trends become classics when they suit your personal style).
Over-the-kn
...Where To Wear Your Prints
Prints! Some love them and some are kind of scared of them.
Well, let's have a look at my journey of learning more about them over the last 13 years.
When I very first started out, there were no real rules (and I love a system and a rule), as to how and where to wear prints so it took me quite a few years to establish the perfect placement.
First of all, we know prints need to have a colour or a theme in common to work together but in order to not look messy, to not give a visual jumping all over-the-place experience, prints need to be kept to just one section rather than just chucked on anywhere we like (as pictured below).
Choosing one area to bring in that dramatic print and layering that same area with another print is much easier to take in, no matter how crazy the print clash may seem.
Below is a screenshot of me in a live explaining to the babes (inside their closed Boss group) how to wear their new collaboration print bag.
You just make
Do You Hate Packing?
As soon as our long haired weimaraner Chi sees our suitcases come down from the top of our wardrobe, she gets really anxious...
She hates it when we go away so I try to give her as less stress as possible by leaving the packing until the very last minute.
Luckily I'm quite the pro at packing quickly and successfully but the last two years of not going anywhere had me a little out of practice when we last went away in December.
So even I had to go back and read my How to pack ebook in order to refresh my packing plan.
This time we are off to Perth on Monday so I'll be leaving my packing until Sunday night.
Packing, of course, becomes so much easier, quicker and more enjoyable the more you stick to a plan.
My problem used to be (and I'm sure most of you can relate) that I would pack way too many clothes that I never even ended up wearing.
I would just chuck this in and then that in without even thinking about
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