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Understanding Proportion Without Rules About Your Body
Proportion belongs to the clothes: where a hem, waistband or jacket edge falls and how big the blocks between them are. Three garments show how it shifts.
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Short essays and methods for thinking about personal style — proportion, colour, texture, dress codes and trends — without rules about bodies or ages.
Finding Your Style Through Outfits You Already Like
Start with five outfits you forgot you were wearing, read them for shape, colour, surface and level, and turn what repeats into one usable sentence.
Adding Colour to a Mostly Neutral Wardrobe
A five-rung ladder from black, grey and navy towards colour, starting with what you already own. Each rung is small, and each is a fine place to stop.
How to Combine Textures in a Simple Outfit
Sort your clothes by touch and by how they take the light, then put unlike surfaces side by side. A comparison of eleven everyday fabrics and three combinations.
Reading a Dress Code When the Invitation Is Vague
Smart casual, cocktail, black tie optional, festive, come as you are: what each usually signals, where British and American guidance differ, and what to ask the host.
How to Create an Outfit Mood Board You Will Actually Use
Twelve images, at least half of them your own clothes, each with a caption you can act on. A method, and one finished board described tile by tile.
Borrowing an Idea from a Trend Without Rebuilding Your Wardrobe
Name the idea underneath the thing you keep seeing, find it in clothes you own, and wear the smallest version three times. A worked, invented example.