And it happened to me!
40+ years ago I finally discovered which colours to wear and which ones made me look ill.
Colour analysis was still in its infancy in the UK and it had taken 3 whole years for an entire industry to work out that I really was an absolute Winter.
But that wasn’t the end of the story for me.
I wanted to know what to look for when shopping for clothes.
I’d just finished a training course in computer programming and was looking for a job. I needed smart clothes for interviews and then a wardrobe for work plus this would be the first time I’d be earning money for over a year, so I was also keen to replace some of the ‘student’ type clothes I’d got in my wardrobe.
I went back to the same consultant for a Personal Style consultation.
In those days, Personal Style consultations were really only about body shape, scale, and proportion which, quite frankly, sounds (and is) about as interesting as watching paint dry.
We all had to listen to a long diatribe about courtly fashion* rules – immensely interesting to me, a lifelong learner and history buff, but everyone else fell asleep from sheer boredom. It was totally irrelevant to what THEY had come for!
And then it happened.
The worst moment I have ever experienced in this fabulously, brilliant world of working with colour and style.
I had to change into a leotard and stand in a line with a group of strangers.
Yukkity-yuk!
Along with everyone else, I was:
- measured to within an inch of my life
- compared to the image of the perfect body shape that the consultant took great delight in showing us
- told I needed to compensate for being a serious contender for the role of Quasimodo – one shoulder being higher than the other!
I have never felt so ruddy miserable in my life and, because of that, I came away having no clue about what I should actually buy in the shops.
But one thing I learned that day changed my entire life
How NOT to treat people
That’s why I have created my own methods to diagnose which body shape you are:
- without asking you to strip off
- without needing to touch you
- without having to use a chuffin’ tape measure
Because it’s all so ugly and invasive and embarrassing and all those other horrid, horrid feelings I was left with on that horrid, horrid day all those hundreds of years ago.
These methods are all in my Personal Style training course, for you to learn and use with your own clients.
God’s teeth! Our clients come to us with little or no confidence, confused about how to dress, and looking to us to build them up and make them feel fabulous.
How dare we remove their dignity and make them feel worse than when they arrived?
Not on my watch!
Definition of courtly fashion*: of a quality befitting the court, elegant, insincerely flattering, favouring the policy or party of the court
Watch the video samples we’ve added for the online Personal Ladies’ Style course and see if training with me is for you.
Working with me is not for everyone but if you love the idea of putting the client first, you will love this!