Choosing the Best Holiday Outfit
By Louise Kana For Main Street Magazine (MSM)
By Louise Kana For Main Street Magazine (MSM)
2009
The problem isn't being comfortable in your skin: Instead, the challenge is simply finding wearable, modern clothes to fit your lifestyle, budget and figure.
Pros may tout fashion now as being ageless, but that's no consolation when you have to pick through racks of miniskirts and low-rise jeans to find styles you love.
Keeping up with trends can be even more difficult because many fashion magazines ignore women over a certain age.
Designers and magazines show styles on youthful models, but realistic merchants know not everyone sports taut forearms and flat tummies. In fact the average woman is a size 14, far from the zero on the cat walk showing the latest designer label.
Practically any fashion trend can be adapted if you know some general guidelines.
Quick tips to keep your holiday outfit current-Let the very young think (mistakenly) that dressing sexy means you have to bare every body part. Instead, you can show your sensuality with luxury fabrics (silk, leather, cashmere, fur) and rich colors (wine, chocolate, plum, champagne and midnight).
Watch your handbag: it is usually a dead giveaway to age. Have some fun with your handbag choice by trying lively colors (red, denim) and different shapes. The key here is to find a bag in a good proportion to your size. Shoulder bags that fit under the armpit (not too tiny or too bulky)
Use accessories to create maximum impact. Costume jewellery expert Isabelle Bryman suggests looking at your accessories in new ways: wearing pearls as a belt or a dress clip on a beret.
Don'ts
Don't wear baggy, shapeless clothes.
Don't wear ditsy and fussy prints like tiny floral.
Don't wear overdone, fussy styles or details (gold buttons, gold trim, etc.). They are terrible no matter the age.
Don't wear your skirts too short.
Don't overdo the glitz! Despite the fact that maximalism is in right now, you don't want to look like the Christmas tree! You want to go to the Christmas Party!
