Change Your Habits Change Your Image by Mary Reggie

Author:Mary Reggie [Reggie, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493188444
Publisher: XlibrisUS
Published: 2014-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 12

How To Dress To Impress

You may want to look smart and sophisticated but try not to do them both at the same time. Everyone seriously started creating their wardrobe when they were preparing for their first job. Everything mattered to them at this point of time. It is a competitive world out there and you want to look like a professional, though you must remember to dress your age!

Your clothes and makeup are vitally important and they will tell the people you work with, a lot more than you possibly think about yourself.

For one thing, most of us rely so much on first impressions and how you look in the early days of your job will influence these impressions.

So, How Should You Look?

You may have the misconception that you should dress according to your occupation or your job function. You do not have to do that as the answer is simple. Be neat, natural and up-to-date as this leaves the field wide open to you to show your own personality. Make simplicity your own keyword where your clothes, hair and makeup are concerned and you will not go wrong. Save your way-out clothes, weird hair styles, fluorescent makeup and tight-fitting knitwear for your leisure hours. Remember that half the secret of looking super is to look right for the occasion. You would not wear a full-length dress to go to a barbeque nor wear a bikini to the store. Leisure clothes and vivid makeup would just be as out-of-place in the office.

Decide in advance to stick to basic colours so that you can easily add to your collection. A good suit, a couple of dresses and perhaps sleeveless tops with a matching jacket will look smart for office attire. Aim for neat simple lines with clothes and add colour and originality with accessories such as scarves and long chains. Keep handbags, shoes and belts in basic or neutral colours so that they all go with anything you feel like wearing.

Personal flair means adding the correct accessories, choosing the right hairstyle and makeup.

What it also means is knowing the boundary of where being just right overlaps an overkill! Overkill interprets into loud bold floral and prints, long flared skirts worn with lacy black stockings. It can also be as subtle as wearing too large earrings, too many bangles or it may just be the wrong colours. You must never apologise for not looking good, at even 7.30 am at the market. Always dress well but suitably, whatever the occasion.

To help some of your figure faults, disguise them subtly by wearing the right type of clothes. Good dressing is a matter of proportion and balance. Women with taste of good dress sense may only possess a few outfits but they must suit your face, personality and figure. Colour and fabric play an important part too. If you want to make the dress look more interesting and smart, coordinate them with existing accessories that you have like, matching shoes, handbags, jewellery, belts, laces and brooches.

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