Here we have another, a dressier, take on the teen applying for a job uniform template: skirt, cami + short-sleeve cardigan.
Jenna asked how to adapt the the 60/30/10 rule to wearing a skirt, or even shorts. Since we don’t want anyone to melt … how it works:
- Can you instantly spot the skirt as the 30? Waist to knee is typically approximately 3/8th of the total body.
- Being the accent color, the blue/purple must necessarily be the approximately 10%.
- What that leaves, and why I had to stare at this picture for quite awhile to dissect it, is her. Skin + hair + the hair-color cardigan = 60%.
BTW, she did get the job.
Cute shoes!! Email me offline and tell me about the job.
I am currently pondering what to wear to my second interview next Friday. I am leaning toward a linen pant suit (which I will necessarily have to find and purchase), as it is cool enough for warm spring days, dressy enough for an interview, but not too formal for a Friday. The other option is a knee-length A-line skirt and lightweight sweater set (which I would also need to find and purchase).
I really don’t have much in the way of “work” clothes for spring/summer. (yet)
Any other ideas? I wore a black suit (below knee skirt, zip front close-fitting jacket, multi-colored long scarf, black knee high boots) for the first interview a month ago when it was cloudy and cool. It felt a bit formal, and I expect warmer weather this time.
Congratulations to your daughter!
I think it is a wonderful outfit!
But I may be the problem child with respect to the rule though …
I think there may be two things going on in this discussion, length balancing and colour balancing. I don’t think they are necessarily the same thing. When I read the Bargain Queen’s post I interpreted it as pertaining to the outfit, not to the body as a whole.
As I look at the outfit, the skirt is the 60, the cardi, 30, the underpinning 10. The whole colour balance issue would change if she had opaque tights on.
Congratulations to your daughter on the job! I hope that she loves it!
I have a question about the color of the shoes and the cami. I’ve always been rather cautious and am afraid to mix colors, especially bold colors. For instance, if that were my outfit, the shoes and the cami would have been the same color (or if I didn’t have the same color, I would have went for brown or black shoes). It wouldn’t have even occured to my brain to wear those shoes. I’m always afraid I’ll look like Rainbow Brite if I mix.
So, if you don’t mind sharing, what is the rule of thumb for mixing bright colors together? When is it okay, when is it not? Just curious to see what you have to say. 🙂
Thanks, Rebecca! So interesting… When I was first pondering how to wear a balanced skirt outfit, I figured you would have to add in the skin because it’s there and prominent. So the way that you dissected this outfit makes sense to me. But…When I first looked at the outfit, I thought what Wendy did…that the skirt would be the 60, etc. I’d love to hear your thoughts on that comment! I might fool around a little bit with some of my clothes and see what I come up with. I’m not a math kind of person (even though I’m good at it), so this is a new concept for me.
And, Carrie, I’m the same as you…I would have had shoes that matched the cami exactly or gone for a neutral. I like it with this outfit, but I never would have thought to pair it! Maybe it’s a personality thing? I think Rebecca would say something along the lines of “If mixing brights in gives you the Hillary face then don’t mix them.” 🙂 But sometimes it is fun to step a little outside of our box, isn’t it? I’m curious too if there are any rules to this!
And yay! for the new job!
Well, the job, honestly, isn’t that exciting. Because she has a possibility for a job that she really wants for the summer, she is just going back temporarily to a food service job she had previously. But this is really what she wore to go in and talk to the manager.
Wendy ~ I think I’m beginning to realize that what I have learned as “length-balancing” really is color balancing. It works either with or without including the entire self. Still a little fuzzy around the edges – my thinking, that is – I’m sure we’ll be visiting this topic again … often. 🙂
Carrie – The short answer on the shoes is that the subject of the picture is a bright color person. She actually wears the black skirt as a costume; rather than , say, if I wore it, I would wear it as my regular clothes. So she wants to look like Rainbow brite. 🙂
You asked enough good questions to inspire a week of posts, though. More to come!
Rebecca, maybe as an extremely short person I interpret length balancing in a different way! 😉
Or maybe in an overcomplicated way. Length balancing in my addled little brain is a proportional issue, so cut, tailoring, and style of garment have as much to do with it as colour.
But I’m not very big on formulas, either! 😉
Okay, you guys, here’s what really went through my head when I was sitting here analyzing the picture. I, too, was looking at it as the skirt being the big piece (which would obviously have been if she had been wearing tights), and then, just to make sure, I measured it on the screen – and the cardigan and the skirt were each the same length! Now, in person, maybe that would be different: angle of the camera and all that. But, I didn’t want to say it was the 60 and then have someone say, “well, it looks like 50/50 to me”. LOL
Jenna, you can use the proportions without counting in your skin, too, especially if nothing in your outfit is close to the color of you.
Wendy, I admit, being average does make my life a little simpler. There are some things I just don’t give to much thought to. Sorry! 😉
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