don't let clothes wear you
Notice how the costume designer (in the far right photo) chose gold fabric to draw our eye right to Catherine Denueve’s face. So she is seen, valued and remembered the minute she appears on screen. How can you do the same? Ensure your personality is seen and honoured? How do you make intentional choices that highlight who you are? Be sure you wear the clothes and not the clothes wear you?
Your personality strengths are uniquely powerful. Here are 6 ways to ensure you choose clothing that honours those strengths.
1. Face size in relationship to height and facial feature size:
Choosing patterns requires knowing if large scale prints honour your fuller features or if smaller, refined prints repeat feature size.
2. Activity: is smoothness and stillness...or activity in the face.
Watch the videos of Catherine Deneuve in relation to Sarah Jessica Parker. Where do you see more stillness...where more activity, more gestures, more animation.
3. Visual weight: how light, medium or heavy visual is the hair: in color, length and volume? And the body? This indicates if light chiffon, more layers of chiffon or lined chiffon give the needed weight. I am using chiffon as an example but this applies to any fabric.
4. Walk and movement. Watch the stillness of Catherine Deneuve and the springiness of Sarah Jessica Parker.
5. Voice: high pitched, girly, breathless, deep, quick or slow.
6. Body: moulded requiring soft, fluid clothing or skeletal able to wear crisp, structured or tighter clothing