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Do you have a favourite shade of orange you like to wear?

Apricot is one of mine.

My cool pink skin suits 5 shades of orange but it's important that we not only create the perfect wardrobe that suits our skin tone, but everything we own should also go back together.

Blue skin babes only have one form of orange that suits them the best while our peach skin babes have 8 and orange skin babes have 12!


This is where my Brilliant colour combinations e book is so important.


I know that my apricot tops will work back beautifully with my dark denim jeans and black and white print shoes.

You see, colour is the foundation of the perfect wardrobe.


As you’ve already learned, we can manipulate shapes, silhouettes, and proportions.


But the one thing that’s a little harder to get right is colour!


In fact, this is one of the main reasons why I created my brilliant colour combinations e book and the colour type mood boards in the first place … as they work together to let you begin with your skin col...

Autumn hits us next week and there will be a few style changes happening about the place.

A huge trend this Autumn and Winter is denim.

So anything you see being done in trends in all fabrics will be repeated in denim. 

I'm talking trench coats, hand bags, and of course - the wide-leg pants.

If you are short like me and your wide-leg denim isn't quite cropped. Make sure your shoes have a slight lift in the way of a heel or platform and show some skin.

Or cut them off nice and high in order to show your full ankle bone or do as I have done here and just give them a really wide fold.

The wider the jeans, the wider the fold can be.

Your choice - either cut or fold.

And remember, just because this is a current trend, doesn't mean for you that it's not a forever style

You can make anything work forever if you know how to wear it with confidence.

I personally suit texture over smoothness, it's my natural visual presentation.

I use this knowledge to look for imperfections, indents, marle, and chiffon in fabrics that I wear and I  also look for jewellery that is wooden and rustic for the same reason.

But that doesn't mean that I can't wear smooth items too.

It just means that I stand out personally against texture whereas the smooth items make me personally recede back.

So if I drop quite a bit of money on an investment necklace or earrings, I may choose to buy those as smooth or as shiny as I can so that they stand out as the main feature compared to my natural features of hair, skin, and eyes.

I also tend to wear other smooth, blingy, and bright items or fabrics with the investment piece so I look completely committed to the look (see photo above).

This way at least my bling has a friend even if it isn't a friend of mine. 

As a smooth girl however, Kate (in the photo above) can get away with wearing either smooth or textur...

Print shoes are fantastic for adding excitement to a relatively plain outfit. 

And at times they can add the dark, the light and even the colour in one hit (like the block heels pictured below, black, off-white, and green).

You can refresh yourself on my light, dark, colour, and a print system HERE.

But the best kind of print shoes are the ones that come across as equally light and dark.

Meaning that they can contrast your last hemline as either light or dark with no problems.

And if you manage to find some with only one neutral in the print, this helps make getting dressed even easier.

The print slides above enable me to wear white in my outfit as there is no white in the print.

https://youtu.be/4fzpi4d02A8

Nat xo

I wear a lot of shirts and shirt dresses so often having a collar on my denim jackets creates a double collar look for me and my personal style.

Of course, I always wear my shirt collars on the inside of my jackets (lesson from last week's email) but it still gives a double collar effect.

So guess what I do?

I just cut it off. I cut close to the seam line stitching and leave a bit of a raw edge (I suit texture best over smooth so this works well for me).

And have a look at the difference! 

A denim jacket is masculine to begin with so removing the collar balances it more into both masculine and feminine. 


Just because something is made a certain way doesn't mean you can't change it to suit you. 

Check out my blog post here on how I cut rips into my jeans. You are the Boss In Your Wardrobe!

To your wardrobe success, 

Collars.

Do you wear yours out or in?

It's super common to pull it out over our jumpers and jackets as that is what we have always been taught but it looks way cooler if you leave your collar on the inside.

If you leave your inner items as part of your silhouette without joining them to your outer frame, it levels up the visual experience.

Your jacket or jumper then becomes the finishing frame.

Try this for yourself and let me know if you can see the difference.

It's really quite amazing once you see it. 

To your wardrobe success,

Hey, Friend,
 

Working out what style you tend to wear the most in Winter is the key to figuring out which boots colour and length you should buy.

Most people have a regular "uniform" that they don't stray too far from in any one season.

Do you mainly were skirts and dresses?

Or pants and jeans over Winter?

I know that I used to only wear jeans and tracksuit pants every single winter and I would usually pair that with ugg boots.

It was only when I learnt the science behind style that I stepped out of my true comfort zone and have ever since worn a fabulous array of looks throughout the cooler months.

It's the not knowing how to that trapped me into not wanting to.

Check out more tips in my video below.

How To Wear Boots Videos

I was going to begin this email with "get ready for the crop flare jeans trend"! but the truth is, it's been around since last Spring only none of us really went anywhere.

Now it's just a matter of us practising wearing them And actually going places while doing so.

The first thing you need when it comes to this trend is to throw your thoughts on what's flattering g and what's not - out the window (much like droppies).

Then, give them a try on and see which way works best for you.

If you are wanting to wear them with flat shoes without laces (laces create a ladder effect up your foot giving the illusion of a slim silhouette underrneath), give those pants one big cuff up above your ankle bone. You can even cuff as high as just below your calf muscle dip in (that's a sweet spot for leg lengthening appeal).

But if you would like to wear those flares long and strong, just chuck on that platform sandal or at the very least, show as much skin as possible on your foot.

If I wasn't shari...

So let's turn this into a double hitter and not only pack for them but also choose items they haven't worn in a long time (and most likely forgot were even there).

Half the battle in any of our wardrobes is the pure fact that we have forgotten what's in there and we don't know how to put it all together.

Packing forces us to take check of our wardrobes and encourages us to have a play.

This is so beneficial that in actual fact, even if you aren't planning to go anywhere, you should pretend you are just so you can build yourself a capsule wardrobe that all fits into one suitcase.

I've seen some pretty full-on packing styles over the years. The most popular one is to grab as much as you can and try to squeeze it all in.

And of course, then arrives at the holiday destination and only wears two things (because they are the only two things that work together).

If the above style resonates with you, let me see if I can at least change that mindset a bit.

Everything you pack needs to work wi...

Right.

It's been weeks (or even months) since you finished "that job" and life is so different for you now.

You walk into your wardrobe going "oh my gosh! How can I wear my two day jeans and top uniform every day of the week and still feel super stylish or at least somewhat inspired about it?"

The truth is... you can't.

You really just can't.

When my small one on one business became a Company online and I didn't have to actually go anywhere anymore or see anyone - trackies and thongs became my staples.

My wardrobe and dressing style changed Dramatically! I fell into a bit of a rut.

Even though I was in fact "the guru" on Personal style (I created my own systems) and the colour expert globally.

I stopped getting dressed for the day. I stopped getting dressed for the world! but most of all - I stopped spending the time I used to take out of the day just for me.

I did actually think to myself "Is this what retirement is like?".

Stuff that!

I'm going to be super hot and super stylish all of my life ...