Looking Good ...Every Day: Style Solutions for Real Women - Softcover

Nix-Rice, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161847040X ISBN 13: 9781618470409

Verlag: PALMER/PLETSCH PUB, 2014

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Any woman can look and feel lovely, regardless of her age, bank balance, or pant size, and Looking Good . . . Every Day defines a simple yet sophisticated standard for women to determine exactly which clothes and accessories will showcase their unique beauty. The &;points of connection&; method explains that the more characteristics that exist in common between a woman and her outfit, the more lovely she will look. It shifts emphasis from hiding her perceived figure challenges and focuses on spotlighting her personal assets. By choosing wardrobe additions in this way, everything in her closet will work together. She has more outfits from fewer garments, allowing her to buy higher-quality garments without increasing her budget. Photography of real women&;ranging from 22 to 80 years old and from size 4 to 24&;illustrates the universal impact &;points of connection&; make in their appearance.

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Nancy Nix-Rice is an image and wardrobe consultant for the company she founded, First Impressions, and the author of Looking Good and the DVD Looking Good Live! and the coauthor of The New Professional Image&;Business Casual to the Boardroom. She writes about sewing and wardrobe topics for Sew News and Vogue Pattern Magazine and presents educational programs for the American Sewing Guild and the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Looking Good ... Every Day

Style Solutions for Real Women

By Nancy Nix-Rice, Pati Palmer, Taylor Jean Engel, Kate Pryka

Palmer/Pletsch Publishing

Copyright © 2014 Palmer/Pletsch Incorporated
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-61847-040-9

Contents

Foreword by Pati Palmer, 
About the Author, 
Introduction: Why Bother Looking Good?, 
The Importance of Image., 
Three Concepts., 
The Game Plan., 
1. Color Connections, 
2. Silhouette Connections, 
3. Body Scale Connections, 
4. Clothing Connections, 
5. Make the Most of Your Body, 
6. Facial Connections, 
7. Lifestyle Connections, 
8. Personal Style Connections, 
9. Closet Connections, 
10. Wardrobe Building, 
11. The Capsule Concept, 
12. Accessory Connections, 
13. Undercover Story, 
14. About Face, 
15. Smart Shopping, 
16. Closet Control, 
17. Custom Clothing, 
18. Fashion Updates, 
19. Looking Good on the Go, 
Index, 
Resources, 
McCall Pattern Company Photo Credits, 
Palmer/Pletsch Products, 

CHAPTER 1

Color Connections

After decades of dressing women, we are convinced that the foundation for a flattering, versatile wardrobe is always the connection between the clothing and the client's personal color pattern.

In your best colors, you'll look beautiful, with glowing skin, rosy cheeks, sparkling eyes, and hair filled with highlights. But put on the opposite colors and immediately you'll look drained and tired, with blotchy skin, dull eyes and hair, even illusions of under-eye circles and double chins.

The great news is that this powerful appearance enhancer is absolutely FREE. It doesn't cost a penny more to buy that sweater in a color that makes you glow than to buy it in a color that makes you look like you died yesterday. And it doesn't take any longer to get dressed in the right colors than in wrong ones.

Some women are afraid that learning their best colors will be too limiting. But nearly every woman can wear nearly every color family. It's just a matter of determining the specific hue, value and intensity of blue or green or red that is most effective for her.

Knowing Your Best Colors Saves You Money

* The average American woman has at least $3,000 invested in her wardrobe. Just one or two outfits that hang unworn can be as costly as a color consultation.

* Defining your best colors eliminates impulse buying and makes you less likely to jump on a fad color that doesn't flatter you or go with anything in your closet. It helps you resist the "it was such a great markdown" method of color selection too.

* Consistently shopping with your best colors in mind creates a natural harmony within your wardrobe and leads to all sorts of happy accidents — wardrobe items that just seem to go together without conscious planning.

Points of Connection

So how do you know which colors are your personal best? You look for "Points of Connection."

Temperature Connection

The color wheel is a systematic representation of all the colors we see, organized according to the proportion of warm yellow pigment or cool blue pigment each color contains.

Just as colors can be classified as warm or cool based on the presence or absence of yellow pigment, humans can be described as warm or cool based on their unique body coloring.

The first step in pinpointing flattering colors is to echo the warmth or coolness of your personal coloring.

A Simple Test for Warm or Cool

On the most basic level, some women can determine their own temperature category — warm or cool — with this simple test. Hold sheets of gold and silver metallic paper or fabric alternately near your face. If the gold is obviously more harmonious, your undertones are WARM. If the silver is noticeably more flattering, your undertones are COOL.

Once you've determined your most enhancing metallic, you can hold that metal up next to a color you are considering for your wardrobe. If your metal looks good with the color, chances are the color has the right undertone for you.

There are more characteristics to consider, so this test doesn't pinpoint your very best colors. But it can steer you away from the range of colors that are drastically wrong for you.

Value Connection

The next step in choosing optimal wardrobe colors is the element of value — how light (a tint) or how dark (a shade) the color is. Every color family exists in a range of values, arranged here from very dark to very light. You will look your best in colors whose value is close to the overall value of your personal color pattern.

Your personal value is determined by the combination of your skin, hair, and eyes. Blonde hair, porcelain skin, and pale blue eyes add up to a light/soft value. A woman of color, with rich brown skin, black hair, and brown eyes would be a dark/strong value. A high-contrast woman with pale to medium skin, dark eyes, and dark hair would also be classified as a dark/strong value.

Wearing colors that balance with your personal value pattern gives you a unified appearance from head to toe. (That allows you to look taller and trimmer in the bargain.) Wearing colors in a significantly mismatched value creates the effect that your head is somehow separate from the clothes and your body.

Intensity Connection

Intensity refers to the clarity of a color — pure and saturated or more muted. A pure color becomes muted when it is blended with its complement (its color wheel opposite). It can also be muted by blending with brown or tan — a warm effect called toasting. Or it can be muted by blending with black or gray — a cool effect called silvering.

Characteristics like bright eyes or hair color, smooth skin and sleek hair texture can give a woman clearer, more intense coloring. Softer personal colors, more textural or multicolored hair, and eyes with varied highlights all contribute to a gentle, muted color pattern. The objective is to choose colors about as bright or as muted as your own color pattern.

Ironically, women with gentle, muted coloring often describe themselves as "drab" and try to brighten up their look by wearing overly bright colors. This approach actually makes their lovely, subtle coloring look dull by comparison. Surrounded by more muted wardrobe colors instead, their appearance takes on a natural glow.

Women with clear coloring, on the other hand, do look drab wearing muted colors; they need the connection of equally bright/clear clothing colors to showcase their beauty.

The "Four Seasons" of Color

The traditional "four seasons" approach considers temperature, value, and intensity as either/or concepts and combines them to create four categories. Winter and Spring, on the left, are bright. Summer and Fall, on the right, are more muted. The cooler women are at the top and warmer at the bottom.

Beyond Four Seasons

Some women fit into one of those seasonal stereotypes just beautifully. But many others do not. Why? Because color temperature, value, and intensity aren't really either/or concepts. Women can have color patterns along the entire continuum of each characteristic.

Variations of Warm and Cool

For example, the gold/silver test doesn't work for everyone because color temperature isn't an either/or trait. There are very warm women (the obviously gold gals),...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PALMER/PLETSCH PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 161847040X
• ISBN 13: 9781618470409
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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