We are all combination of dressing styles. The Used June 24, 2024 Grand Rapids, MI GLC Live at 20 Monroe Poster Shirt Nobody is one style. Different situations may require us to rely more heavily on one dressing style than others. So often the reason we feel unhappy in our outfits is that we’ve gotten too stuck in just one personality style – and we’re missing out on important parts of our personality and expressing them through our outfits. Luckily, there are quite a few ways to add feminine and classic elements to your outfits so that they better reflect the wonderfulness of you. I recommend you take the Viennetta approach to express your style. It’s a layered approach to style, and you get to select what goes in each layer. Your version will be different from others and that’s what makes it right for you. A Viennetta is an iconic Aussie dessert with wave after wave of creamy vanilla icecream ripples flowing over layers of chocolatey deliciousness, it’s way tastier than an onion!. When thinking about creating outfits, you want to include styles, colours, fabrics, textures, patterns and details into your style equation and use a combination of these from each of the personality dressing styles. A relaxed outfit could start with jeans, plain grey t-shirt and sneakers. By making small tweaks to each element of the outfit, you can add classic and feminine elements. You increase the femininity of your base outfit by replacing the plain t-shirt with a floral pattern or pink t-shirt. You could keep the grey of the t-shirt but add a satin trim, embellished neckline or flutter sleeve. A lighter colour of jean is more feminine than a dark wash and shoes with a heel, metallic finish or floral patterns are another easy way to add a feminine touch to your outfit. Your feminine accessory choices will have smaller scale, more delicate elements that incorporate metallic sheen, precious stones, flower or flowing shapes such as filigree and as much bling and sparkle as you like. You add classic elements to your outfits by adding a blazer-style jacket over the feminine top and accessories, or alternatively wearing dark indigo denim, straight leg jeans with a button-up white shirt, or relaxed classics such as a Breton stripe or Henley t-shirt. A classic shoe option would be a no-fuss leather oxford but other classic elements are almond toe-shape; matte finish; simple design and dark neutral coloured – grey, black, navy or brown. Classic jewellery is understated, in traditional settings, more refined, and not too much bling or detail. Your hair and makeup can also take on both feminine and classic elements. Feminine hair would be soft, flowing with curls and may use bows, ribbons, headbands and sparkly hairpins. A soft smoky eye, pink lipstick and blush are perfect for a feminine look. Classic grooming is always polished, with straight sleek hair – the bob, or tied up in a low tidy ponytail. Classic makeup is always there, but never overstated or too heavy, using neutral tones or lightly saturated colours in a matte finish.

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Do you naturally want to play it safe? It feels comfortable? The Used June 24, 2024 Grand Rapids, MI GLC Live at 20 Monroe Poster Shirt or Do you feel that playing it safe is too boring and almost like a straight jacket for you? If you are someone who likes to have a more safe style, when you copy someone else’s more flamboyant style (thinking that that’s how to be stylish) it can make you feel ungrounded and inauthentic. Then there are others who have gone to extremes such as quitting jobs because of the dress code being too strict for them, making them feel boxed in, stifled, and unable to express themselves and bring their best self to work (and I know that I’m more this way than the other, as I remember a time in one of my early jobs where management talked about bringing in a uniform and I remember thinking to myself “I’ll be quitting then” as even the thought of wearing a uniform makes me break out into hives). I’ve noticed that some of my clients want a set of style rules they can follow, that they don’t want to vary from. This makes them feel safe. Other clients, will want more of a self-imposed set of loose guidelines (please don’t talk ‘rules’ to them) that they will use as a handrail (rules feel like handcuffs to them). When I’m playing it safe, I’m usually in an overly analytical space where I’m thinking too much about what my outfit is communicating, whether it’s giving me the credibility I crave, making me look like the expert I am and that I’m living up to my “image consultant” brand. This relates to my psychological type (INTJ) as getting out of my head and an outfit into the world can sometimes be a sticking point for me. For Jill, who has a very different psychological type to me (ESFJ), for her, playing it safe means that she’s being lazy, not pushing herself to put on a stylish outfit, just getting dressed without really thinking. When she’s feeling down she doesn’t pay attention to the details in the way she would when she’s feeling more buoyant. For Jill, her Sensing function (introverted Sensing to be precise) gives her stability to have continuity in her style, which almost has a uniform aspect (though it won’t look like a traditional uniform). Relying on tried, trusted combinations give them a feeling of stability that motivates her style upward. Jill says that her ability to use the detailed information from her past dressing experiences helps her create new stylish combinations that have a theme (leopard print, being one of them for Jill as it’s her Signature pattern) that is easily observed by others. Jill loves to find herself a formula and repeat it in different ways, such as changing up colours, in which garment the leopard print appears and of course different accessories.