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What is Now Considered Professional Business Attire?

Before the pandemic and working from home confined everyone to the house, businesspeople wore Business Casual dress or Elegant Casual dress. Then “Zoom dressing” from the waist up happened and the suit, jacket and tie or trouser suit for women disappeared overnight.  Now most of us are back in the office in a professional environment and wondering what to wear to work. Your workplace may have a dress code, but managers tell me that in

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How to Dress for Your Body Shape

Your shape is given by your bone structure, musculature and tissue distribution, mostly inherited through your genes. However, just in case you don’t like your shape or it isn’t in fashion, help is at hand to change your silhouette through style, garment construction and fabric. A Brief History of Body Shapes Popular female shapes over the decades have everything to do with fashion. After the curvy turn of the century styles, (19th that is) waists

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How Do I Start an Image Consulting Business?

An image consultant is a person who works with clients to refine or enhance their personal and professional presence and public persona through appearance, behavior, and communication skills. (The ABCs.) A professional consultant can transform a person’s outward appearance and even their lifestyle in the way that a chameleon adapts its skin. It is an educational process, which is designed to incorporate the psychological, physical, and cognitive changes that arise by working on a client’s

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Green Color Psychology

Color psychology is the study of specific hues and their effect on human behavior. Color plays an essential role in creating certain moods, conveying information and influencing decisions, feelings and behaviors. For instance, color preferences may have an influence on the products that people choose to purchase, the way they decorate their homes or the brands they are drawn to and the clothes they choose to wear. Color psychology is also relevant in many ways

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How Your Old Closet Can Find New Life

In the past, we all lived largely in a disposable society, where any materials which had outlived their usefulness to us were simply disposed of, rather than kept and re-purposed. At some point, it was recognized that this simply could not go on forever, because landfills were quickly filling up all over the globe, making it increasingly difficult to find available landfill space for discarding materials. It is now recognized how wasteful that practice was,

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