Accessories can be intimidating – the fashion formula for using accessories to highlight your features and pull together an outfit can seem like a balance between avoiding looking dowdy and looking clownish. Accessories, be them bracelets, handbags, or hair accessories, can turn that blouse and skirt or shirt and pants – for casual, work, or dressy wear – into outfits.
Turn Clothes for Women in Fashionable Outfits
"HEY GIRLS! a woman who uses accessories shows that she value herself, so she can look younger and thinner, so she can distinguish herself from others who are dressed in similar clothing." -mae
Earrings in a color similar to your eyes can bring focus to your eyes.
Match a necklace to the tone of your hair to direct attention to your hair.
Make sure that your earrings match with your fashion clothes.
Don't wear many accessories.
"accessories can direct attention where you want it." -EMILY
Look at Accessories for their Potential Use
Before you can use accessories, you need to look at what you have, determine what you’ll actually wear, and figure out where you have gaps in your accessory wardrobe.
First, go through all of your jewelry and separate the pieces you love and that have sentimental value from the pieces that you don’t care about.
Put sentimental items in a keepsake box if you’ll never wear them. If you love a piece that isn’t currently fashionable, you can still hold onto it for when you can wear it. Determine which pieces need to be fixed so you can wear them and arrange to have this done.
Now, go through the above steps for scarves, shawls, handbags, necklaces, bracelets, sunglasses, belts, and shoes.
Create Groups of Accessories
*collect accessories that share a color family or theme and can be brought together to complete outfits.
*your accessories must fit with your fashion clothes and its color.
*Clear a space on your bed or a table and group different accessories that share a color. Take a photograph of each color group. You can use the photograph later to jog your memory about what you have (since necklace, handbags, and belts won’t get stored next to one another).
*Don’t worry if some color groups contain items that are casual, work-oriented, or dressy, you just want to see what you own. Each color group gives you the opportunity to mix-and-match combinations of items that can accentuate an outfit.
By grouping items by color, you’ll be able to see if you have a great handbag that you never use because it matches nothing in your wardrobe.
* If you are fashion accessory-poor, you can start by building items within a neutral color group.
When using accessories, you may discover that one bright color is enough – say, wearing red shoes or a red necklace with a black dress. With a neutral, like ivory, silver, or black, you may be able to wear several accessories in that color for more impact.
