by Nancy Hogan Neill, Wordsmith & Marketing Assistant

                DRES System President and Chief Creative Officer Margaret Spencer has once again come up with a way to help women more quickly determine their most brilliant wardrobe options. Specifically, it’s about how anyone can discover the colors that work best for their individual skin, eyes and hair coloring.

                Each of her 12 Color Codes can be purchased as a fan-style book containing 36 beautiful fabric swatches. These color codes are named for their qualities, such as “Cool/Muted/Light” and “Warm/Bright/Light.” This naming system avoids potential confusion in using color names--they can be so easily misinterpreted. One woman’s rose is another woman’s mauve, after all.

Your DRES System Certified Personal Stylist is trained, tested and certified on how to accurately and efficiently discover any woman’s ultimate colors. She can order your fan book for you after she’s completed your DRES System Ultimate Colors style appointment: http://www.dressystem.com/about/find-a-stylist.html The lower image is an example of what the front of your own 42 Ultimate Colors Palette would look like in a smaller format.

                This makes all your wardrobe shopping for clothes, accessories, makeup--everything, really--much easier, quicker, and more fun! It’s especially useful for those solo shopping excursions if you’re not working with your own DRES System Certified Personal Stylist.

                And saving time while building one’s own pulled-together, gorgeous, working wardrobe allows more time for building that brilliant career, doesn’t it?

By Nancy Hogan Neill, wordsmith and marketing assistant

This week, the annual fund-raising ball for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art was all about “PUNK: Chaos to Couture.” Celebrity attendees certainly wore some creative theme interpretations! Nevertheless it gives us (as women who need evening wear of a slightly more sedate variety) some of our own creative ideas for the all-too-rare red carpet event:

I give you Taylor Swift in J.Mendel, as seen on Huffington Post:

Can’t you picture this dress as evening wear for a Sapphire by using a similar jeweled collar, with extended jeweled shoulder lines, on a simple sheath dress? Perfection!

And this Tory Burch dress worn by Ginnifer Goodwin, also from the Huffington Post site, would look wonderful worn by an Emerald.

And for anyone else, both looks would benefit from more standard evening makeup applications.

You can find many more ideas to crib from this year's Met Gala just by searching on 2013 Met Gala. 

By Nancy Hogan Neill, Wordsmith and Marketing Assistant

We are creating a clothing line
just for your unique body shape!

Have you ever fallen in love with a fashion design, only to be disappointed once you tried it on? "It’s not your body that’s wrong; it’s the clothing that's not designed right for your body!" So Margaret is doing something about this problem, helping women to feel confident and value their unique shape 

DRES: Clothing For Your Body Shape

DRES, is developing an innovative clothing line to help professional women find comfortable business-casual clothing that is tailored to their body shape. One shape does not fit all! The gems we use to define these body shapes improves a woman's self-confidence.

We want women to know it’s not their bodies that are wrong; it’s the clothing that’s not designed right for their shape!

Please support our Kickstarter project to croudfund the manufacturing of our first line of clothing. If you like what we have created, please vote by making a pledge or $1 or more and help us spread the word.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1635539719/dres-clothing-for-your-body-shape

 By Nancy Hogan Neill, Wordsmith and Marketing Assistant

Let’s face it, ladies. We’ve all seen other women who have chosen to leave their homes dressed in clothing that’s just too young. I call this phenomenon, “mutton dressed as lamb.” And it’s never happened to you, right? Especially since there are many examples to be had from 30-ish or 40-ish actors and celebrities like Amy Adams and Tina Fey to more mature icons: Jacqueline Bisset, Peggy Lipton or Helen Mirren. Here are some specific examples of age-appropriate dressing:

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Ms. Mirren is an outstanding example of an agelessly stylish woman, and she’s 67. She appeared on the Today Show recently wearing a simple dress with sheer, dark tights and booties. Again, she looked chic, contemporary, stylish and entirely age appropriate. If her booties had been gold lamé? Probably not so much.

An article from a U.K.-based newspaper’s online site writes that nine out of ten women like to dress themselves younger than their actual age. What’s more, the same women intend to keep doing so until they reach 70. But why stop there? As long it’s done with ageless style.

Whether you’re 31 or 81, dressing your age doesn’t have to be difficult. As you mature, think of your choices in terms of slightly less arm and leg, less sheer/drapey fabric, slightly more subdued colors, simpler clothing cuts and more classic styles. Remember, if you’re asking yourself, “Does this look too young on me?” Then it is.

It’s easy to see which clothing styles work for any body shape simply using the DRES System. And your DRES System Certified Stylist can easily guide you in making age-appropriate choices: http://www.dressystem.com/about/find-a-stylist.html