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Meet Julie Sanders, Woman's Zone very own
Image Consultant and Fashion advisor. Whether you are
looking for some tips and hints on
this seasons latest trends, or want to know what colour
really is best for you. Julie will be keeping you up to
date, in the know and giving some very sound advice and
expert tips to get the best from yourself.
My name is Julie Sanders. I am
the founder of the Look Good Club and author of the recently
published book ‘The Shopping Rules for Woman’. I am thrilled
to have been invited to be the Fashion and Image Consultant
for the Women’s Zone. I hope that my advice will help you
feel much more confident in knowing exactly what colour and
styles will suit you and help you gain greater confidence in
your appearance.
We all buy clothes to us keep
warm and decent. Some of us may buy clothes to keep us up to
date and in line with current trends. But my job is to help
people do all that AND buy clothes that make them look
great. And if you look great you will also feel super
confident.
It is not about spending a
small fortune or spending hours seeking out designer labels.
It is about learning and applying the simple Shopping Rules
so you buy clothes that you will actually wear and love
because they suit you, your colouring and your body shape.
The rules of colour and style apply to anyone no matter what
their age, shape, size, budget or lifestyle.
The Shopping Rules are simple,
it’s just that our mothers didn’t know them nor did our
aunties, sisters, teachers or best friends. And what is
more the fashion retailers don’t want us to know them
either. Why? Because if we only bought what suited us and
loved the results we wouldn’t buy as much would we? The
retailer’s profit is usually our buying mistakes. The
Shopping Rules make the appearance side of our busy lives so
much easier.
So what we would like you to
do is email me with your shopping problems. Disguising big
bums, big boobs, no boobs, fat legs, thin legs, bingo wings,
double chins etc etc is what my job is all about. Write and
tell me what your worries are and I will try and answer
on-line. (No names of course!)
We are bombarded with advice
from all sides about what we should and shouldn’t buy to be
‘in fashion’. Just yesterday I read an article in a
national newspaper entitled ‘100 Must Haves For Every
Fashionable Woman’. What a load of twaddle!
Amongst 97 other suggestions I
discovered I ‘must have’ a bikini (err no), a boyfriend
cardigan (wear over a tee shirt and belt it!) and a vintage
leather motorcycle jacket (I ask you?!) I can honestly say I
only possess one of the author’s recommendations a pencil
skirt and I only have that because the colour suits me
–grey, and the curvy fit and knee length is just right for
me.
The implication of the
article-if you don’t have these 100 items you are not in
fashion. I don’t agree one bit but know that such
advertising is designed to appeal to our female insecurities
and get us to part with our hard earned cash on clothes we
don’t need. Our mistaken purchases are often doomed to spend
their lives in the dark recesses of our bulging wardrobes,
until we recycle them and pass them off to a third world
country, or worse as mattress stuffing. Little wonder we are
confused and this is where my job comes in.
So if you, in common with
possibly 99% of women, feel you’ve lost the plot with what
suits you, have lost confidence in your appearance, want to
look slimmer, taller and more elegant or have ended up with
a wardrobe full of clothes but nothing to wear-do drop me a
line.
If you can’t wait that long
how about entering the competition and winning a copy of my
book? I look forward to hearing from you.
THE SHOPPING RULES FOR HALLOWEEN/ (FOR
WITCHES) BY Julie Sanders
HI everyone
I have been asked to put together some
fashion tips for surviving Halloween. My first thought was
‘surely fashion and Halloween don’t mix –its about fun,
frolics and celebration’. But then I realised The Shopping
Rules I write about and advise on apply in any context and
help you look good, feel great and be more confident in any
situation whether that is everyday life, a special occasion
or a fancy dress party.
My first Shopping Rule is ‘get the colour
right’. You will always look younger, brighter and healthier
in your best palette of colours. This applies to Halloween
as any other occasion. You will find out a lot more in my
book ‘The Shopping Rules for Women’ and on line at
www.lookgoodclub.co.uk . If you pop across to the
Women’s Zone you will find a competition there and you might
be the lucky winner.
I hope you enjoy my guide to how
Halloween can be worn and enjoyed by the 4 Key Seasonal
colour palettes.
WINTERS
- Winters have the easiest Halloween of all. Their
typical colouring of dark brown/black hair, dark eyes, and
pale or brown/ black skin makes them the natural witches as
they suit black in a way that drowns the other palettes. The
Goth look is also typical winter –lots of dark hair, blood
red lipstick and of course lots of black eyeliner! If your
colouring resembles Kelly Osbourne, Amy Winehouse, Martine
McCutcheon or Davina McCall you will make a fantastic black
witch or a sexy Vamp!
SUMMERS
- If you are a summer you may
be better as a white witch, as black will make you look old,
ill and tired! The summer palette is soft and pastel.
Girlie, feminine and delicate. Colouring is typically very
fair with pale skin, fair or mousey hair and soft blue eyes.
Think of Gwyneth Paltrow, Kylie Minogue or Emma Bunton.
Summers will make the best ghosts or will o’ the wisps. Try
see-through, transparent, floaty, gossamer fabrics in pale
shimmering colours with a touch of silvery moonlight. These
tones will make your pale skin sparkle.
AUTUMNS
- Autumn colouring is rich, warm,
sultry and earthy. Think of Carol Vorderman, Terri Hatcher,
Mica Paris, and Leona Lewis to name just a few gorgeous
autumns. Hair colour is usually a rich golden brown or
chestnut with hazel brown or green eyes. They look great in
the colours of autumn leaves and berries, dark rich purples
and browns and earthy tones including mustard and burnt
orange.
Autumns will be the ghouls of
Halloween-the creatures from the earth, the sea or the
swamps. The Thriller video comes to mind!
SPRINGS
- Springs look fantastic in the brightest colours of all.
The colours we associate with daffodils, tulips, citrus
fruits and sunshine. Denise Van Outen, Holly Willoughby and
Christine Aguilera wear the bright golden colours or their
palette particularly well. Typified by golden blonde or
brown hair, bright eyes and a permanent natural tanned glow
they do not look good in dark, heavy colours of the night.
The classic orange of Halloween would look fabulous. Also
Springs make the natural divas –elves, imps and pixies in
their bright, light colours. And of course springs look
great in bright, scarlet red. The perfect ‘little devil’
colour!
I hope you have enjoyed my take on the
‘Shopping Rules for Halloween’ and I have given you some
dressing up ideas. Have a fantastic 31st October
and I look forward to you joining me at the Women’s Zone.
