Personal Style Solutions

Your Personal Style Program

Personal Style Solutions can help you look slimmer, younger, and better by helping you learn how to dress for your figure and body shape.

Even if you have a really great eye for trends, colors and accessories, it can be hard to shop for clothes off the rack. There are so many factors that contribute to whether a given style will suit you that it can often be difficult to find a way to wear the latest trend that you have been coveting.

Whatever your figure type, there are areas of your body that you prefer not to draw attention to, and sometimes even perceived assets like long legs can make shopping for clothes that fit right a trial.

You can always get some help, either from a friend or a professional stylist or personal shopper, but using other people's advice you may not end up with pieces that match your own individual style, and it just isn't practical to use a personal shopper for every purchase. What you need, therefore, is to truly know your own body, and what kind of style suits it. This way you can come up with your own personal style solutions.

This can be really difficult to judge with your own eye, but believe it or not, there are definite rules that can be applied for a fail safe result. A system that analyzes your measurements can therefore establish the shape of your body and, this data can be used to provide clear cut guidance on what you should look for in an outfit. This is what a personal style solution offers you.

My Private Stylist

We feature an excellent internet based personal style solution for you, My Private Stylist. This is a service which gives you the advice of a personal shopper in a handy format that you can take shopping with you or simply learn the rules of to apply when you are putting together outfits.

Knowing the rules relating to dressing your body shape gives you a sound base to work from and once you know you are choosing the right fit and shape of clothing you are free to develop your own personal style around things that suit you perfectly.

How The Program Works For You

When you join My Private Stylist, you are asked to supply some measurements for different parts of your body. This isn't just your standard bust, waist and hip, but also measurements that help calculate your vertical proportions, like your height and leg length. This ensures your personal style solutions are for your body shape.

Once My Private Stylist has this data, it can work out which body shape you have, in terms of your horizontal and vertical body type. It can also use other ratios to establish things like the best type of sleeve or neckline for you to wear. Based on the results, it provides you with a very comprehensive set of recommendations and examples which you can work from and you have all your personal style solutions.

Vertical Dimensions

Unlike other systems which only work with the shape of your torso, My Personal Stylist uses your measurement to establish a vertical body type. This is crucial in dressing well, because the length of things like dresses and sleeves makes a surprisingly big contribution to how well an outfit works as a whole.

It is also important in determining things like what sort of waist style you should look for in your clothes. My Private Stylist will determine whether you are a "Balanced" body type, with leg and body length in good proportion, or whether your torso or legs are proportionally longer.

This has a big impact on the recommendations My Personal Stylist will make for you, and is used in conjunction with the horizontal body type data to come up with your own fashion prescription giving you personal style solutions.

Horizontal Dimensions

Horizontal dimensions, i.e. the measurements around different points on your torso, allow My Personal Stylist to work out, using ratios of the waist, hip and bust measurements to each other, what sort of torso shape you have. Once it has analyzed your own information it will be able to tell if you are:

• An hourglass shape – the most coveted body shape of all, with hips and bust in proportion and a smaller waist.
• A triangle shape – the classic "pear" type figure with larger hips than bust.
• An inverted triangle shape – a "top heavy" figure where the bust is large but the hips are comparatively narrow.
• A rectangular shape – with little or no waist definition, this is the "straight up and down" body shape. Hourglass shapes can turn into rectangles in later life, or with weight gain.
• An oval shape – this tends to belong to overweight women who carry a lot of weight on their stomach, creating a rounded body shape.
• A diamond shape – this is like the oval, but with the weight on the stomach carried higher.

Each body shape, even the easiest to work with, has certain styles which look absolutely amazing on it and some which you should always avoid. My Personal Stylist will not only tell you which these are for your body shape, but also where other styles fit in on the scale of awful to awesome for you, and how you can adjust them to wear them better. How's that for personal style solutions!

Style Recommendations

What My Private Stylist gives you is some perfectly tailored personal style solutions and recommendations. For each garment it analyzes against your body type, it will give a rating of:

• Great – items, accessories or cuts that you have the absolute best shape for and which are total must haves for your wardrobe
• Good – flattering items, accessories or cuts which you can buy and wear fearlessly
• Good Only If - items that you can wear, but only when also following certain other recommendations which My Personal Stylist will give you.
• Avoid – Cuts which won't suit you no matter what you do with them.

These recommendations can apply to a whole garment, such as an A line skirt, or just to a style element, such as a type of sleeve or a style of pants. Along with its suitability for your body, My Personal Stylist will also make recommendations about where you could wear the garment or style, using the following classifications:
Business, Business Casual, Relaxed Casual, Smart Casual, Dressy, Evening, Sexy.

There is some overlap in these classifications, for example smart casual will often be appropriate for work, though not as smart as business casual, and whether you want to go dressy or sexy in the evening is up to you!

My Personal stylist gives you so much information to work with but it is presented in such a digestible and helpful way that you will have no trouble at all using it to guide you to look younger, look thinner, and dress better. It is definitely a must have service for any fashion conscious woman who wants to really know how to get the best from her wardrobe and finally discover permanent personal style solutions.

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Personal Style Solutions
Published September 19, 2011

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