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The ONE Color every woman
MUST have in her wardrobe
I get asked
this all the time: what should I wear to "name of
event"?
(Put in anything you want, party, baby shower,
wedding.)
Most women who write to me, act as if they never
expected to get invited to "name of event" in the first
place.
To this I say: Be prepared. Not like being prepared as a
girl scout. Where the most important bit of advice was
knowing when it was your turn to cook and how to keep
your bra from getting frozen.
Be prepared as a woman. The full grown (or almost full
grown) beautiful woman that you are.
In the event you find your self shopping all over town
for everyone on your shopping list, keep in mind, that
at some near or far point in the future you are going to
need a dressy dress, and outfit for a special occasion,
perhaps its cocktails? or maybe even a full blown New
Year's Party.
My best piece of advice? Make sure you come home from
the mall with a purple dress in one of those bags!
Here's why.
Well for one thing, like I said, you want to be prepared
and the best way to be prepared for any special occasion
is to have the dress already paid for and hanging in
your closet. This will give you the time you need to
-have it altered if need be
-try it on over and over (its ok to admire yourself in
the mirror)
-check for loose threads or seams
-locate (beg, borrow or purchase) the right accessories
-choose the right makeup
-try out different hairstyles
But there's another reason why you need to have a purple
dress in that bag!
LPD : It goes with everything.
Like black, it is one of the most wear-able colors when
it comes to accessories. All shades of purple, whether,
violet, grape, burgundy or lavender, have a chameleon
like personality that change when you change your
jewelry or other accessories.
We like to think of a purple dress like the wrapping
paper on a gift. From there, you can add almost any kind
of embellishment, gold, silver, platinum tones look
equally lovely, while additions of pinks, greens, blues,
and yellows take on their own shine when lain across a
background of fabric that is dyed with a red/blue
combination.
This makes it easy to create a new 'look' each time you
wear the dress. For this reason we can consider our
little purple dress a perfect 'go to' item for a New
Year's party, or a gallery opening, or cocktail party,
even a summer wedding. Can you spell 'versatility?
Your hair : shiny or dull? Your
skin : creamy or lifeless?
But there is one very important and not well publicized
reason to choose a little purple dress over the more
popular LBD.
When color experts compare the two colors on a group of
women they found some interesting results.
Black made light skinned or light haired women look
washed out, while even the darkest shade of purple made
the same women's hair glow and it made her skin look
smoother, less blotchy.
Women with dark or medium skin and hair also benefitted
from wearing a shade of purple instead of black. For instance,
we saw that the dark haired woman who wore purple had
much more warmth to her skintone and shine to her hair,
when compared to the woman in black.
We just had to ask why this
was.
The color black, the experts say, by its very nature,
makes anything near it look whiter than it actually is.
For some women, a whitish skin tone is desired, (and we
respect that!) but most women tell us they actually want
a warmer, creamier tone to their complexion.
Well, it just so happens, that the opposite of purple is
yellow. So, when you wear purple, of course its going to
bring out gold tones in your hair. And as a bonus it
literally makes your skin look amazingly smooth and
creamy by cancelling out purplish blotches in your skin
tone.
We just had to ask ourselves...why on earth would we
choose a color that makes us look pale and lifeless,
when we could be looking amazing?
Don't get us wrong. We love Chanel and we also love our
little black dress. But like our best study buddy Mikey
used to say, "there's a time and a place for
everything". We think its time to add purple to our
wardrobe!
I'd love to hear your ideas about this topic! Feel free
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