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SHOPPING
FOCUS ON FASHION story by Barbara Travis
What you wear to work, church, the gym, or to social events has the unspoken ability to relay your mood, personality, influence, energy, self-confidence, and self-image. Clothing choices impact almost everything, so it’s important to be thoughtful and selective when making them.
You can wear anything you want to for whatever reason for people on the outside but looking good at home matters as much as looking good at the office, a ballgame, a restaurant, or a party. Why? Because how you dress at home reflects how family and close friends perceive you and, most likely, how you interact with them.
PRACTICAL AND COMFORTABLE
Everyone should be practical and comfortable at home, but that doesn’t mean dowdy, slovenly, or frumpish. It does mean making the daily effort to be casually chic, groomed, and presentable enough to open the door for an unexpected guest, run out for an errand, or accommodate a friend who calls and wants to meet for lunch in 30minutes. It also shows you care about yourself. Looking good at home can be both fashionable and serviceable. All you need is a style recipe and a few closet ingredients.
AT HOME WARDROBE RECIPE
Invest in a few basic comfortable and stylish loungewear sets or separates.
You pay more for quality pieces you wear outside, so paying more for quality wear-at-home items that transform how you feel and look at yourself is well worth it. Build a good loungewear and pajama collection. Concentrate on monochromatic, matching sets in neutral colors and nice fabrics. They’ll look good, wear well, and similar colors can be easily washed together. The addition of minimal simple jewelry and attractive sneakers, flats, or slippers are a bonus.
Good grooming is important always, but especially so for an easy chic presentation. Minimal makeup – a touch of blush, mascara and lip gloss do wonders. Do something easy with your hair but do something. Then when those unexpected quick invitations from friends arise, all you have to do is accept, refresh makeup, change shoes, dab on a little perfume, and run out the door.
Change your closet, change your attitude, change your life!
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