Dear ladies, how many of you have ever wondered how to be elegant and how to behave accordingly? Let’s see how with simple fashion rules to follow you can achieve a truly elegant style.
Attractive but not sexy
Décolleté
You can feel like wearing something sexy, but it has to be appropriate and not showing too much. E.g. if you want to wear a nice top with a décolleté, prefer wearing it with some pants or long skirts below.
Skin-tight clothes
Carefully pairing skin-tight clothes. If you want to wear a tight-fitting skirt, choose a nice loose blouse on top. Remember, if you want to wear sexy clothes, choose either the upper body or the lower body, never both or it can convey vulgarity.
The dress is skin-tight, but covers the shoulders, the arms, probably until the knees and is black; giving an interesting conservative / sexy balance.
Sheer clothes
Sheer clothes can be really elegant to wear, but you have to balance it carefully in order to not appear vulgar and bold. Go for clothes that mix transparency with thick fabrics covering your strategic points.
Taylor Swift in a mild colour sheer top with a bow button up has a very feminine romantic look.
Classic and timeless clothes
It is a time resistant, Coco Chanel in the 1900’ and Audrey Hepburn in the 1950’ both were icons of elegance and as of today they still are. You never go wrong with this style and people will always think of you as someone elegant.
The timeless dress
Every woman should have one in their closet, a little black dress, you never go wrong with this piece of garment and can be wear for any occasions.
Accessories
Accessories give a little complete touch to the outfit but they should be kept to a minimum, do not bring attention on too many accessories in order to stay elegant. E.g. If you wear a beautiful and large necklace, wear more low-key bracelets or earrings.
Large necklace, big pearls as earrings, intense and shiny lips, several bracelets: this woman drive attention at too many different points.
Colours and patterns
An elegant lady knows how to dress appropriately according to the season and occassions. Eg. wear warm colours during the day, darker colours in the evening; simple attire while meeting casually with friends, and something more sophisticated for higher level social occasions.And please refer to the colour protocol for 2018 autumn look if you want to know more about the new tendencies.
Colour matching
Colour matching your clothes can be very confusing and to avoid any colours clash you only stick to neutral colours. Matching colours is not a very tricky, you just have to follow some simple rules
The monochrome rule
The complementary rule
The 3-colours rule
The colour-wheel you can use to find the perfect colours match
Patterns
An elegant lady knows how to choose the right pattern for her clothes, but it should be one pattern, not several varieties which would create a visual conflict. If you wear a printed skirt, wear something plain on top, for example. Choose one type of pattern for each outfit. And avoid those of poor taste: i.e. no leopard prints, no fluorescent or shiny colours, no glitter.
In other word: stay simple. An elegant lady is mostly noticeable for her attitude, personality and her taste. What others rules do you have to be elegant? Leave us a comment!
