The very word ‘Accessories’ can put the fear of goodness knows what into some people!
- How much? – How Many?
- Where?
- What colour?
- How big? – How Small?
Confused? You’re not on your own! Lots of people are, and because of the confusion, they don’t wear any accessories at all or they play it very very safe. You Too?
Let me help make everything a bit clearer for you!
What Are Accessories?
Accessories are not just bags and jewelery. You can also include the following:
- Texture
- Boobs
- Jewelery
- Belt buckles
Accessories Scales
I want you to imagine a set of old fashion weighing scales; the type your grandmother had with the separate weights that if you drop them on your toes it really hurt.
Keep that picture in your head!
Now on one side of your ‘scales’ I want you to put in weights for how tall you are:
- petite
- Average
- Tall
Next put weights in for how big your bone structure is
- Fine
- Medium
- Grand
Now some of you may have scales that are crashing on the floor – others will have less of an impact.
Whatever you have, you need to take all of it into consideration. Just because you’ve only got 2 weights in your scales doesn’t mean you have to have little earrings, little necklace etc.
You can still ‘carry’ a medium sized ‘something’:
- a bangle
- a necklace
- pattern on the shirt
- a thick textured cardigan
…what you can’t do is put them all on together as that will be over kill.
Most of you are going to be somewhere in the middle, so instead of wearing a pattern, and a thicker cardie, and a little pendant – keep everything simple and plain and put on a big long, bulky statement necklace, or have a shirt in this seasons fashionable geometric prints.
Those of you who are tall and well built with lots of weights in your scales can be a bit more impressive, but again don’t do pattern/texture /jewelry together as this just confuses the eye. Saying that, in fashion this season are abstract prints which are all worn together and the more the merrier really, but do keep the texture of the material thin.
Now ladies with larger boobs – you have to remember that they are an accessory by themselves! You don’t need anything else going on in that area, no ruffles, no patterns, no necklaces that land on them! Necklaces should stop before your boobs especially if you have a lot of space between there and your neck. The other way to wear necklaces is to have them very long so that they go over ‘your bumps’ to land around your belly button or a bit above.
ACCESSORY STYLE TIP: Very long necklaces can be expensive – so cheat! Put a cheap chain or leather necklace on the hooks of your statement item, to lengthen it enough to still look good (you can buy these special extenders in some magazines!)
Now you have a clearer idea of how you can wear accessories, in the next article I’ll take you through a few necessities you need to know about wearing the right accessories.
PS: Watch my [ How To Wear Accessories ] Video Clip.
