What is sustainable fashion?
For me, the word sustainable means a couple of things: The first aspect of sustainable fashion is durability. Buying clothing that stands the test of time (in terms of the material, stitching quality and style), can be worn many times and still look current or like new is a sustainable choice. Coco Chanel’s Little Black […]
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It’s Your Colour & Style’s 10th birthday on 1st September 2023!
It’s Your Colour & Style’s 10th birthday on 1st September 2023! What a lot I’ve experienced in ten years as an independent Personal Stylist and independent Personal Shopper. The ups and downs of running a business I’ve learned a lot about running a business in the last ten years, including functioning through a pandemic and […]
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What is colour? What is colour analysis?
What is colour? I can’t believe I haven’t written about this before! I am not an expert on the science behind colour, but it is fascinating where the current thinking has evolved (from Aristotle to Isaac Newton in 1671 to several other theorists in the 1800s and then others since). Also, to note how mathematicians […]
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Top 5 holiday must-take items
As we’re getting into holiday season, I thought I’d share my favourite ‘must-take with you’ items, apart from your passport, tickets and money! 1. The first is a new item for me and I wouldn’t be without it. Instead of taking a perfume bottle, which are usually heavy and of course breakable, how about decanting […]
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The Best Job in the World
What’s in it for me? There are many reasons I continue my colour and style work (15 years on from initial training). Apart from, as lots of people say about me, my passion for helping women increase their confidence (and compliments). I just love it when clients tell me how they’ve got a bargain, and […]
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3 lessons from a recent wardrobe review: my own!
My busman’s holiday I decided it was time to do my own wardrobe review, which to be honest was long overdue. I had clothes in lots of wardrobes (yes, lucky me) but I was only wearing a small percentage of them, although, to be fair, not all of them fit right now! Clear out and […]
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What are we saying by our appearance? 3 tips for Authentic and Confident dressing for work today
The consequence of Covid Covid left many of us working from home and not mixing in person; interacting with computer screens where we only saw ¼ of someone else; and we therefore lost ¾ of our non-verbal communication. We didn’t have to dress up to go to work anymore, and ‘casual’ and ‘very casual’ became […]
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60 Years of Fashion (part 2!)
I’m exploring sixty years of popular fashion and part 1 took us from the space-inspired 60s, through the hippy-chic of the 70s to the big shoulders (and bigger hair!) of the 1980s. Let’s pick up this fashion story in 1990… 1990s The 1990s seem to be having a bit of a renaissance in fashionable […]
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60 Years of Fashion (part 1!)
It’s very hard to say when fashion ‘started’. Historically, it largely depended on your social status. For example, Queen Elizabeth I was a highly fashionable lady and influenced her court, but did she influence the average person in the street…? The Georgian era – all that Jane Austen glamour – was also terribly fashion-conscious, which […]
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Secrets of the Undies World
Although I don’t normally talk to my clients about their underwear, I do know that their undies reveal secrets about their clothing personality. Plus, undies are bought for body shape, size and age. I say that, because my own choices have changed over the years, although the underlying features still abide. So, whether you like […]
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