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About Susan Sommers.
An image and visual communications strategist, Susan can take you on a shopping spree where the clothes are free by reinventing your existing wardrobe. Using her unique and proprietary method to shop your closet, she helps you create dozens of new outfits from what you already own that project your best. Author of the books, French Chic and Italian Chic, Her specialty is showing baby boomers how to turn back the clock and look spectacular.
A former editor and spokesperson, she founded Dresszing® to help women to look stylish, successful and confident and has been featured in O, the Oprah Magazine, Health, Crain’s and on Eyewitness News and the CBS Early Morning News, among others.
Check out her website, dresszing.com and let her make your dress…zing now!
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January Style Flash
All the best for 2012. Is this the year you’re going to do things differently? Good for you. However, experience has taught me that instead of trying to institute lots of changes that if I start by doing just one, I have a better chance succeeding. After all, it takes 21 days to start a new pattern and 100 days to for this new pattern to become automatic. By concentrating on one thing at a time, I’ve been able to create some lasting modifications. Of course, I do have to keep at it. Working out is one of those things that I can be very good about…until the day I’m very bad. Luckily, I resume again after a short hiatus.
That said, this style flash is not about working out, but rather, working your wardrobe. The best place to start is in the organization and storage of your clothes. Only by being able to see exactly what you own can you figure out new ways to wear and pair your clothes.
Closet Smarts
Make 2012 the year you make the most of what you already own. Here are the steps to take:
1. Separate each of your suits. Hang tops and bottoms separately.
2. Store all garments by category, then color, organizing them from dark to light in each category.
3. Use wood or plastic hangers for jackets and shirts. Avoid wire, because it doesn’t properly maintain the shape of the shoulders.
4. Hang trousers long, using skirt hangers with clips. I clip them at the waist. Men can hang their trousers folded over the slat in a wooden hanger.
5. Clip skirts on skirt hangers.
6. Dresses too will be hung in a group that ranges from dark to light using wooden or plastic hangers.
7. Never hang knits. Fold them. I keep my sweaters in an armoire. My black sweaters are separated into three piles: turtlenecks, pullovers and cardigans. The rest of my sweaters are separated in piles by color, ranging from—you got it—dark to light.
8. Fold T-shirts and store in piles by color in a chest of drawers or on a shelf.
9. If you have the room, mount a shoe rack inside a closet door. When I open my closet, I see 24 pair at a glance.
10. Organize socks and hosiery by color. I keep mine in lingerie boxes in a deep drawer.
11. I like to see my jewelry at a glance so I keep it in clear plastic boxes with compartments, that were probably originally created for nails and screws.
12. Hang belts and bags on special hangers or as I do, on hooks suspended from pegboard on the inside of one of my closet doors.
13. Fold scarves lengthwise over a hanger so they can be readily seen.
Once everything is out in the open and pieces are assembled according to category, then you can begin pairing items you might not have thought off. More about that in a future Style Flash.
If you have any tips or questions, email me at susan@dresszing.com
