How to Find Out What Clothes Suit You

Discover clothes that complement and enhance your body shape and skin tone.

The most flattering clothes enhance your body shape and skin tone, and make you look instantly younger and slimmer without surgery or dieting. You can save money in the long term by building a capsule wardrobe of flattering clothes for work and leisure that transcend transient fashion trends. Once you have discovered the basic styles and colors that complement your appearance, you can confidently add some seasonal, on trend items to accentuate your individual fashion blueprint.

Difficulty:

 

Moderately Easy

Instructions

things you'll need:

• Full-length mirror
• Online body shape guide
• Online seasonal color analysis guide
• Gold jewelry
• Silver jewelry

1. • 1
     Wear only your undergarments and stand in front of a full-length mirror. This will allow you to make an honest appraisal of your overall body shape.
   • 2
     Refer to an online body shape guide, such as fashion stylist Joy Wilson's "Shape Guide" at the Body Shape Fashion Advice website. (See "Resources" on this page for a link to the site.)
   • 3
     Decide which of the five categories is the best match for your body shape: Apple, Pear, Strawberry, Hourglass or Rectangle.
   • 4
     Search each clothing section on the site, and identify styles that will suit your body shape. For example, if you are an "Apple" shape, you can refer to the "Dresses" section that advises you to choose empire waist and wrap dresses and to avoid shapeless shift dresses.
   • 5
     Refer to an online seasonal color analysis guide, such as the "Seasonal Color Analysis Chart" at the Chic Fashionista website. (See "Resources" on this page for a link to the site.)
   • 6
     Choose which of the six categories is your dominant coloring characteristic: Light, Deep, Clear, Muted, Warm or Cool. For example, if you have golden blonde hair and light blue eyes, you are probably in the "Light" category.
   • 7
     Complete a gold and silver analysis test to determine whether your skin's undertone is better suited to warm or cool colors. Choose a piece of bright silver jewelry and a piece of clear gold jewelry. Wash off any make up that you are wearing, and position yourself in natural light. Look in a mirror, and hold each piece of jewelry in turn against your face. If the gold brightens your complexion the most, you are more suited to warm colors. If the silver makes your complexion look more luminous, you are more suited to cool colors.
   • 8
     Choose clothes in shades from the appropriate color palette, according to your dominant coloring characteristic and skin tone. For example, if your skin tone and coloring fall into the category of "Warm Light," your seasonal color palette is "Light Spring," and some of your most enhancing colors are coral, camel and moss green.

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