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Developing Your Personal Style with personal stylist Amanda Herron
Most of the time, you want to aim higher than those around you. This doesn’t mean spending a lot of money or wearing a bright colour necessarily, it can be making sure your shirt is ironed, your blazer fits properly, your shoes are in good repair and keeping your hair neat and off your face. It doesn’t hurt to be overdressed, but you certainly will feel if you’re under dressed. Best avoid that feeling all together and carry on with what’s important. Why is it so hard to choose an outfit for a board meeting or pitching to a potential client?
The simple answer – because you care! You care how your audience will see you and naturally, you want to create the right impression. Your appearance shows how much you respect yourself, and the people you will meet with, which is why knowing your audience is crucial.
2 Wear the Right Cut
Even if you spent a truckload of cash on a fancy designer outfit, it wouldn’t matter in the slightest if the cut isn’t right for your silhouette. You may as well have tipped your hard-earned cash into the rubbish bin. Time and time again, I see beautiful women wearing ‘trendy’ clothes, or worse ‘hiding’ in a blouse not right for
1. Know thy Audience
It may sound like a cliché, but ‘dress to impress’ really is what you’re aiming for. You want your potential clients and board room colleagues to believe you are the authority in the room on your topic and are worth listening to. Think about the last meeting you had, how was the best person in the room dressed? Or, consider the last sales pitch where you were successful, what were you wearing and did your client wear something similar?
them. It makes me want to hand them something off the rack, right there and then it would suit them – even enough to burn their original outfit! Your body shape is essential to how you put an outfit to gather! Normally I break it down into 5 body types and there’s a lot of information around each one, however, if you follow these two points, you can’t go wrong.
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