Picking up the thread I let dangle in the comments on my post, The Demise of Retail as Therapy, I will define what I mean by “lifestyle segment”. Simply put, different activities demand different clothes. Lifestyle segmentation breaks them down into four categories: leisure, casual, business, and social. Leisure = The least formal. Includes all …
Don’t miss Imogen’s post on when to break the “rules”! I would only add that which rules you break (and when and why) then becomes part of your idiom; that is, your unique style of artistic expression.
In the past, it’s made sense to me to employ the following transitional template: new jeans + summer top + winter layering piece “Winter layering piece”= jacket, sweater or sweatshirt. I’m only tweaking it. For sure, this is a timeless formula. But I am also warming up to the scarf as layering piece for warmth. Since I …
