Personal stylist Margo Passadore and I took 8 women of various ages, shapes and color harmonies to Nordstrom in downtown Portland for a “Before and After” photo shoot (overview here). Here’s our second client’s story. Sally is a fun-loving gal who favors classic and romantic stylings in her clothes. She is triangle-shaped, with a small bust and […]
Personal stylist Margo Passadore and I took 8 women of various ages, shapes and color harmonies to Nordstrom in downtown Portland for a “Before and After” photo shoot (overview here). Here’s our first client’s story: About Kate, a vivacious Patrician Winter Kate’s lifestyle is both sporty (yoga, hiking, etc) and dressy (she’s a professional musician). The Patrician […]
What is “The 1-2 Punch?” 1 is Color: the power of a custom personal color palette. It takes the stress and challenges out of shopping for and dressing in clothes that flatter your natural coloring and seasonal style. This is my specialty. 2 is Style: the confidence that comes from shopping with a skillful personal stylist […]
Yesterday, fellow Portland image consultant, Margo Passadore, came over to help me attack my closet. I am already very good at clearing other people’s closets – helping my clients understand why certain garments are flattering, which are not, and why and how to put them together. Just last week I helped a client create this mountain of […]
Age happens. And hair turns gray. You have 100,000 tiny hair follicles in your scalp, each with a little pot of melanin at its base to provide color. Your genes determine when and in what pattern those follicles will quit producing color. Don’t bother trying to pull new gray hairs in the hopes dark ones […]
Case study: do “clothes make the man”? Of course not. But they sure can help him get things done. Consider what happened to Glenn, the Executive Director of a major local non-profit, and a man of high principles who has been working for nearly two decades to preserve wild lands in Oregon and Washington. As an environmentalist, […]
To be “in the pink” is to be in top form, to glow with health and vigor. Wearing the right shade of pink can do that for you. But until very recently the color pink was reserved for suggestive undergarments and little girls in princess garb. Today pink is everywhere, but in more subtle blush, […]
I’m all for having a relatively small collection of clothes for each season that can be mixed and matched so your look is varied. The “Capsule Wardrobe” of just 33 pieces is the current iteration of this minimalist approach to dressing. But many of these capsule wardrobes are so BORING, like this one on the […]
Do you look as good going as you did coming? Most of us check our faces in the mirror before heading out, but few think to look at our backsides. And let’s be frank: there are worse things than tight pants on a big J-Lo butt. I’m talking about droopy drawers on a flat butt. […]