Strategic Style
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Welcome to "Strategic Style". Unlike most fashion blogs. it doesn’t spotlight how great I look in the hottest seasonal trends. I occasionally use my clothes as examples, but this blog isn’t about ME - or about trends either.
It’s about YOU, and classic design principles to determine wardrobe choices that showcase the fabulous things about you. Then you'll shop strategically, dress effortlessly and feel confident about your appearance no matter your lifestyle, age, size or budget.
It is the clothes’ responsibility to make YOU look good -- not the other way around. You'll look best in clothes and accessories that have “points of connection” to you. The more characteristics in common between you and your clothes, the more fabulous you'll look. Your stuff will look classier too, based on that repetition.
Things that connect with you also connect with one another, creating more mix-and-match than you ever imagined. Shop less, spend less and feel great about how you look every day. Put wardrobe issues on the back burner and head out the door every day with confidence to play your special role in the world! Welcome aboard!
I introduced an August Challenge in our subscription online community: Beat late-summer boredom by creating a new outfit each day, combining pieces you already own. In the process I discovered a way to make many of the tops in my current closet a lot more flattering regardkess if the season …
continue reading ...Septermber is a tricky month for wardrobe choices. The calendar says it’s Fall but – in many parts of the country – the thermometer says maybe it’s still Summer. And the balance shifts back and forth daily. What to wear is an ongoing challenge. Here are tips to recombine your pieces to suit this shifting environment …
continue reading ...On a recent trip to the Boston area for a program, I squeezed in a visit to Meg’s stunning home – a stone barn she and her husband (both architects) redesigned to a sleek, modern interior. She applies that same eye for design to her wardrobe, often snagging great pieces on resale sites like The Real Real and ThredUp and refashioning them.
continue reading ...How can I wear my deep warm colors in hot weather? I get that question a lot this time of year, and the answer is simple. It’s the fabrication, not the color, that determines the seasonality of a garment.
continue reading ...With a 2-year backlog of weddings plus the newly-engaged crop, my inbox has been flooded with requests for help choosing M-O-B and M-O-G dresses. This mom was considering royal blue, but wanted some input on color choices.
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