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JAYPLAY 11.08.2007
HEAD AND SHOUL
To avoid fashion blunders and help elevate your style, focus on and develop an understanding of the one thing your clothes affect the most: your body.
Adrienne Colcher says her hourglass figure, a size 6 or 8 depending on the brand, is the perfect canvas for her fashion finds.
"I can really go to a lot of stores and find clothes that fit and look good on me," Colcher, Garden City senior, says about her preppy-chic style. "It's all about knowing what styles are trendy and how I can make those trends work with my body."
Colcher's wardrobe is more diverse now than it was when she started college. She sports everything from polos and straight-leg jeans to baby-doll dresses and fitted cardigans, all with a fashionable poise that is indicative of her style, knowledge and understanding of her body.
"My closet is jam- packed with versatile clothes," she says. "I know now that more things actually fit me than I first thought." Despite a closet full of figure-friendly frocks, Colcher does have difficulty with some parts of her wardrobe.
"It's hard for me to find trendy denim because my hips are larger than my waist and the fashionable jeans tend to be low-rise," she says. "I just have to make do with what I've got and get something that's in style and comfortable."
Not everybody can easily grasp the concept of styling oneself based on body type. You can't let trends dictate how you dress. "Forget style, we're talking about fit, dimensions and shape. There is no gray area. When you attempt to convey a current style with no regard to your body shape, you are putting yourself at risk to commit a heinously tragic fashion sin.
For example, the apple-shaped girl—stocky on the top and middle sections of the body with narrow, skinny legs—who walked into Wescoe Hall the other day wearing a tight-fitting, midsection-bearing shirt and skinny jeans and sporting what I refer to as an "ass bag"—the extra fabric in pants that creates a pseudo-diaper, Tragic! Or we can discuss the wonderfully styled, but ill-fitting, XL coat a guy draped over his medium sized body a few weeks ago on Jayhawk Boulevard. "Hey, man, I like your coat," his friend says, "Hey, man, you look
like a turtle, "I think to myself.
Fit is the most important component of style, say fashion guru and co-host of TLC's hit show "What N says he witnesses one too many fashion victims the day and most of the style crimes are a result of over clothing. Kelly and co-host Stacy London were ab problem areas for virtually every body shape, for women, and provide perfect solutions to those their 256-page style bible, Dress Your Best! The Com Finding the Style That's Right for Your Body. Kelly's major issues is people wearing clothes that don't a body underneath. He adds that these problems coversized nature of American culture in general.
"Oversized sweatshirts need to be abolished. I make you look like shapeless dumplings."
Once you realize what type of body you have at been wrongfully dressing yourself, you can begin style on fit rather than trends.
Feminine fashion guidelines
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