Green, pink and yellow

Posted on September 4, 2014 by stylepointofview

I was at the airport when I saw an oriental girl wearing a very stylish outfit, the colours especially were very well matched…

green, light pink and yellow

So, here are some ideas on how to use them:

And a collage, of previously shown clothes and accessories in the same colours, which you can mix and match:

: &Other Stories cashmere sweater

: Rag&Bone portobello pant army plaid

: jcrew.com womens chino shorts pink

: Zara linen-t-shirt kaki

: liebeskind punky jute wash bag

: pier-one-ballet-pumps-pink

: &Other Stories basic viscose t-shirt light pink

: Radley Grosvenor Large Handbag, Green

: daniel-hechter-pencil-skirt-pink

: Mos-mosh-diana-slim-fit-jeans pink

: Cos dark green Flared A-line skirt

: Zara

: olive skinny jeans

: Even & Odd

: & Other Stories

: Rio Couture pink sandals

: Max Mara

: Gazel- yellow handbag

: Octopus- yellow leather handbag

: Buffalo

: Ted Baker- yellow leather clutch

: Pretty Ballerinas green suede ballerinas

: Yellow leather belt

: Velvet

: &Other Stories cotton blend sweater

: COS WOOL MOHAIR SKIRT

: Ilse_jacobsen_womens_cheerful_flip flops

: marc-o-polo-basic-t-shirt-olive

: Zara long sleeve yellow blouse

: Pretty_Ballerinas_ballet_flats green suede

: MidnightCOCO asymmetric plaid skirt

: Caprice BRITNEY – green

: Selected femme parka

Bye, bye.

It’s time to sort out your wardrobe!

Posted on August 30, 2014 by stylepointofview

A tidy wardrobe makes a huge difference on how your clothes look and, as a consequence, about the way you feel towards them.

A lovely piece of furniture where to store your clothes makes them look nicer.

Do you ever open it and stand staring at what’s inside and think it all looks old and not very exciting?
That’s because it’s messy. Well, sometimes that’s the reason, sometimes it’s just because your clothes are awful….in that case you might as well get rid of them all and start again afresh! If the latter is your case, I think it’s better to have very few but nice things rather than lots of so-and-so ones. But this is a different subject on which I will sooner or later write about.

So, here’s what you ought to do regularly:

1) Empty your cupboard/ change your cupboard/ improve your cupboard (delete as applicable)

2) Buy some nice hangers, all the same kind and not too fussy. Clothes look better on a nice hanger then on an awful one, they also look better if the hangers are all the same shape, length, height, etc.

3) Get rid of clothes you don’t wear or are old and tatty. Only exception is: if the reason you are not using them at the moment is they don’t fit but you HONESTLY think they will soon, keep them somewhere else, bring them back only when you can actually wear them again. No point in getting upset about being overweight daily, it is not going to get you anywhere and will just make you feel sorry about yourself and make it more difficult to choose something to wear.

4) Get rid of clothes you aren’t that keen about anymore and wear only now and again. You can store them somewhere else while you think about whether to keep them.

5) Decide, before starting to put back the remaining things where you are going to put them. For example:
I like jackets, shirts and tops on the top part, while trousers and skirts in the bottom, as it should be when you actually wear them! This makes it easier to decide what to wear with what in the morning.

6) When hanging back each kind of clothing put them all together (trousers, skirts, etc.) , all facing the same way and in order of colour. e.g. start, for example, with your blue jeans, from the darkest to the lightest, then trousers from brown to beige ones, then black to grey and so on. Nice also if the colours next to each other actually match. I like trousers hanging but jeans could also be on a shelf.

7) Find a nice place where to put your accessories, which need to be visible in order to put your outfit together, accessories are essentials, not an extra! What about a box for your belts?

Berge’

Perhaps you could find a nice hanger for them and have them on the door of your wardrobe.

I put my scarves

Silk scarf FRAAS

in a nice pile, obviously by colour and folded all the same way and size. The summer ones or the silk ones go in another box, all on their side in order to see what I have.

I also keep most of my handbags in the cupboard.

jost-toronto-clutch-red

Here depends how much space you have, but if you have lots, ideal is having them standing one next to the other (with side showing) so you can see what you have straight away. If you can’t, you can always stack them one on top of the other and have the ones you use most hanging around the bedroom. Gloves can go again in a box on their side so you can see all your colours.

8) I also suggest you make two or more sections of shelves, I have mine divided in sports and all the rest, with priority (that means on the central shelves) for the nice ones (that means NOT the sports ones!!)

9) Shelves: divide each kind of top into different piles, again by colour if possible, t-shirts, sleeveless tops, evening tops, lightweight jumpers, warm and heavier ones, house clothes, and so on.

10) Don’t forget lighting is important in your bedroom! One can’t possibly try clothes on and check how they fit or match in poor lighting.

11) Another obvious important piece is a good mirror, full length of course. Doesn’t need to be expensive or beautiful, although everything helps, but does need to reflect reality. This is where you have to decide whether you can actually leave the house dressed in a certain way, hence the necessity of a mirror which tells you exactly what you look like.

12) Last, your jewellery. I used to have mine in a box and trays in drawers. I never wore it. I than decided I had lots of nice things, not expensive nice, just nice. And I wanted to use them.

So, this is what you can do: have an old-fashioned but always glamorous table with mirror (need to have lots of taste to choose something which will not look ridiculous) and put several different size boxes

to contain smaller pieces such as earrings, rings, and stands for hanging your necklaces and bracelets. Otherwise, have your things around the bedroom, a couple of antique hooks on the wall with long necklaces, a stand for the shorter ones on top of a low piece of furniture, a couple of things hanging from your cupboard doors’ key. I think you get the picture. It will actually make your room prettier as well. I even have a necklace hanging on the corner of my mirror!

I know it sounds like a lot of work but you will so pleased with the result it will be worth it. I actually love doing it, even in other people’s wardrobes. Your clothes will look like they are all new and putting together outfits will be soooo easy!!!

Grey hair

Posted on July 27, 2014 by stylepointofview

You don’t have to be young to be beautiful.

You don’t have to dye your hair to be beautiful.

You do have to be stylish if you want to go grey.

In fact, I don’t think beauty equals beautiful, it certainly helps, but it isn’t about that. I think being beautiful is about finding your own style, maximizing your best features, style is essential though.

We all become old or at least the lucky ones do. Now, most women dye their hair until they are quite old, not without some quite ridiculous results some of the times. Too dark, so they just enhance their wrinkled and colourless skin ending up looking older than they actually are! Too light, so they look all one sad and going bad mousey greyish near expiry date human being. Sometimes they go really bright with some extremely embarrassing results!!
The ones that decide to stop dyeing their hair at some point late in they lives, age about 20 years overnight!!!!! This is why I think we should stop dyeing our hair when we are younger and do it gradually.

I am not telling everybody to go grey. All I want to say is women should feel more confident about themselves, find their own style, focus or base they style on their best features, or even the worst ones! If for instance you happen to have nice hands/ legs/ hair/ etc. make the most of it. Having said this, some women manage to transform a negative aspect of themselves into one of their best assets….

Going grey may be an opportunity to adapt your style while slowly adjusting to the fact you aren’t 20 anymore. The thing is, if you keep on wanting to look good and aren’t young anymore, you end up struggling every day more and never be happy with the result. If instead you show your age but look terribly good at it, isn’t that much better?

Every age needs to have its style, I am sure you realise if you are 40 you shouldn’t wear a mini anymore, don’t you?! (most of the times…as always there are exceptions)

So, if you have decided you have had enough of going to your hairdresser every two weeks to have your hair dyed and anyway looking good for periods of time shorter and shorter in between sessions, not to mention the expense of it all, and have decided you want to try to go grey, here’s what you should do:

1) check with your partner he is willing to give it a try and let you know if at any point he isn’t sure about your changing looks ( this is the only person I feel ought to agree with your decision)

2) be very patient, it takes a good two years to get rid of the colour ( if done gradually)

3) keep on going regularly to your hairdresser or even more than before in order to have haircuts which get rid of the coloured hair ( it’s up to you how drastic you want to be with this ) and keep you looking at least tidy if not gorgeous. This will prevent you from giving up!

4) you might need to change hairdresser, some of them disagree with this decision, whether it be because they don’t like it or because they will not earn so much out of your visits, they will not give their best when cutting your hair.

5) Start dressing and putting make-up on according to this ” new you”.

6) If you do manage to get to the end of this rather demanding period and succeed, this is what you need to do:

Certainly make up and clothes will have to conform as well.

Some shades aren’t going to look great near your face, having said that, you can always wear a statement neckless or a scarf in order to adjust the colour near your face.

Why not start wearing something quite distinctive without forgetting to always be chic!

Make-up needs to be more accurate. Do you remember when you were 20 and you couldn’t possibly go out without make-up? Well, than you could have, it’s now you can’t!!!

You are going to have to define your eyes more or, like one of the women in the pictures, wear a pair of unusual/ strong looking glasses and enhance your lips instead perhaps. You probably need glasses anyway by now so you might as well make the most of it!!

Of course your haircut must be very good, whether it were fashion forward or classic, your hair must always be kept looking at its best. That means buying specific shampoos, going to your hairdresser as often as needed in order to keep it always impeccable and finding styles that suit you and your very personal style in dressing. Please don’t go ” hippy”… chic is the right way. I am not terribly fond of long hair after a certain age, but, some women can….