Enlarge your wardrobe choices with clothing accessories
Here is an article about Clothing Accessories. I hope you find it informative and/or useful.
It's so true that women love clothes, but there's a limit to everything don't you think? Unless of course you have a very large budget for clothing and accessories, you're more than likely probably looking for more ways to make the most of your current wardrobe. European women in particular have mastered the art of making many costumes of one basic suit or dress. We American women would be wise to take a page from their book. Clothing accessories are the name of the game. Let's take a look at some of the ways clothing accessories can create a larger wardrobe with little additional closet space.
Classically simple clothing and accessories is most adaptable in this game. The classic lines lend sophistication to your style as well. Let's take the LBD, that little black dress we all love. This chameleon of garments can sail right through the day's events with only a change of a belt, scarf, purse and some jewelry and clothing accessories. A no-nonsense blazer and a string of pearls gives you a professional look suitable for an office presentation. When you meet your husband for lunch for example, swap the blazer for that silk scarf he gave you for Christmas. Add a couple of gold bangle bracelets, lose the pearls and walla... you've got a whole new look. You're going to dinner and the theatre? A change of shoes, with a little glitz, a satin handbag and jacket and you're ready for compliments from everybody including your husband!
You can see how well this this works. It's no wonder European women love clothing accessories. With a good selection of accessories, you can appear to have a magnificent wardrobe but albeit on an absolute shoestring. A pink linen dress can be casual at a summer lunch, office perfect showing its professional face or a stunner at a wedding. It all depends on your choices in clothing accessories.
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Costume jewelry is fun and quite inexpensive. It can set the whole mood of your costume. For example, for our pink linen dress, some bright enameled earrings and necklace in shades complimentary to the dress hue and a white fabric tote bag are the perfect clothing accessories for that summer lunch date.
Scarves are another important clothing accessory. Made of silk, polyester or wool, you've got a world of possibilities to change one garment from a city slicker look to a day at the beach look.
Handbags can present you with an entirely different image in your co-ordinated costume. Handbags should always be co-ordinated with your shoes for a consistent look. They need not match exactly, but should have the same feel of casual or dressy and be of similar color shades to the rest of your clothing accessories.
Gloves are equally versatile as well as practical. Freezing weather of course requires hand protection. Depending on your costume, they can be fur-lined leather or knitted woolies with a fun pattern.
If your budget won't allow more clothes just now, make the most of what you do have with new clothing accessories.
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