http://betweenmypeers.com/2005/12/27/style-it-yourself/ from the bottom of the fashion food chain, a conversation about what to wear. Thu, 17 May 2012 05:57:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://betweenmypeers.com/2005/12/27/style-it-yourself/#comment-1157 The Space Between My Peers » Between My Peers Classic: Style It Yourself Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:43:12 +0000 http://betweenmypeers.com/2005/12/27/style-it-yourself/#comment-1157 [...] From a post last year: … now that Christmas is behind us and most of you lovely ladies received new clothes as gifts, what next? You must “style them in” to your current wardrobe. To “style it in” is a term that I made up (this is my blog, I can invent vocabulary as I see fit) based on what professional stylists do in the fashion industry. In other words, you must create great-looking outfits combining your new clothing and accessories with your existing ones.The goal is to be sure that the outfits you envision in your mind actually work on your body. Try on every possibility. If you have a new sweater, you should try it on with each pair of pants and every skirt it might go with. Carefully recording combinations that work will save you time and trouble on mornings when wardrobe trauma threatens to overwhelm artistic inspiration. [...] […] From a post last year: … now that Christmas is behind us and most of you lovely ladies received new clothes as gifts, what next? You must “style them in” to your current wardrobe. To “style it in” is a term that I made up (this is my blog, I can invent vocabulary as I see fit) based on what professional stylists do in the fashion industry. In other words, you must create great-looking outfits combining your new clothing and accessories with your existing ones.The goal is to be sure that the outfits you envision in your mind actually work on your body. Try on every possibility. If you have a new sweater, you should try it on with each pair of pants and every skirt it might go with. Carefully recording combinations that work will save you time and trouble on mornings when wardrobe trauma threatens to overwhelm artistic inspiration. […]

]]> http://betweenmypeers.com/2005/12/27/style-it-yourself/#comment-37 Anonymous Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:48:00 +0000 http://betweenmypeers.com/2005/12/27/style-it-yourself/#comment-37 I would be very interested to know the statistics for being sick the day of or after Christmas, considering I spent my weekend sick as well. Do you think your body just knows it has time off so it tries to make the most of the time? Is being sick a cruel joke that says "Aha! Now you have to stop everything and just lie there."?!? I would be very interested to know the statistics for being sick the day of or after Christmas, considering I spent my weekend sick as well. Do you think your body just knows it has time off so it tries to make the most of the time? Is being sick a cruel joke that says “Aha! Now you have to stop everything and just lie there.”?!?

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