Wearing the right accessories to suit you requires balancing what you wear with your bone size and your shape rather than, as many believe, your weight!
Accessories reflect your personality and should always be in tune with what you’re wearing, what suits you and your individual style.
In our previous Accessories article, we looked at Accessories and How to Wear Them. In this article I want you to think “less is sometimes more” and how, by being daring with your accessories, they really can make a boring outfit look fantastic.
Wearing The Right Accessories – Style Tips
Following are my top tips for individual accessories:
Bags
You only need a least 7 bags (show this to your partner)
- Day bag – brown – can be worn with all colours except black.
- Day bag – black – wear with black, white, grey or taupe.
- Funky bag – playtime, dinner or lunch lots of colours, sequins or buttons
- Evening bag – match it with your jewelry gold or silver
- Travel bag – the right size to fit into an overhead locker on a plane and doubling as a weekend bag
- Beach bag – lined so any spills can be wiped
- No bag bag – for when only credit card, key and phone needed
Hats
- High forehead– beanies or anything goes. But be careful if you have eye bags to avoid low brims
- Low forehead – always need to have high crowned hats
Scarves
- If you are short and want to wear a long scarf, opt for a lightweight material or woven silk.
- Scarves can look great worn as belts, especially with jeans
- Short necks must wear scarves wrapped round the neck, but choose lightweight material
- Long necks can wear them looped and tied in most textures
Belts
- Small boned – keep buckle small (even if carry extra weight)
- Large boned – have large buckle (not thin belts)
- If wearing one colour – keep belt in tone
- Long backs – wear belts low to stop behind looking too big.
- Large boobs or short waists should be careful with belts as too much in this area causes confusion, in a small space.
Necklaces
- If you have a short neck, big boobs or a squat face then necklaces should be one of the lesser items in your accessory collection – stick to delicate pieces that don’t take up too much space.
- Long necks can take much bigger pieces. Chokers look good in crew necks and wear big chunky necklaces at collarbone level.
- Big boobs and long and dangling necklaces all get confused – so avoid. But if you can make a V down to your waist this can look great see tip above!
- Flat chests can wear wonderful necklaces that can reach as low as your waist.
- Don’t wear and over-the–top necklace and wild earrings together unless they are part of a set.
Earrings
- Long faces look good in chandelier earrings as well as studs.
- Round faces and double chins should stay away from studs, but look good in round and dangly earrings.
- Short necks should avoid long dangly earrings, but look good with discreet sleepers rather than studs.
- Medium sized hoops suit everyone.
Well I hope this article has really helped you find the right accessories that work for you and your body shape.
If you still have a question, please let me know in the comment box below.
