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<strong>First</strong>ly I took a photo of my client wearing all tight fitted black, up against a clear wall to<br />

see which body type I’d be working with; to be certain I cut around her figure frame.<br />

After doing so I came to the decision my client is a petite hourglass.<br />

I discussed with Claire about her silhouette, she agreed strongly that she is an hourglass<br />

but it was news to her that she was classed as a petite, as she is 5.4-5.5 in height she is<br />

just about broader line.<br />

1. A photo of client<br />

2. Measure your client<br />

Across the bust – 100cm<br />

Across the under bust -91cm<br />

Across the waist- 83 cm<br />

Across the hips – 102cm<br />

Across the both tights – 86cm<br />

Across one thigh -55cm<br />

“Hourglass: The bust and hip measurement of this client will be their largest, and their waist<br />

measurement will be quite small. An “hourglass” will normally have a large bust, small waist,<br />

short waist, big hips and generous thighs.”<br />

“Petite: This client could be any of the other measurement combinations; however they will be<br />

shorter and tend to have broader shoulders.”


3. Before Photo<br />

4. Colour Analysis<br />

.My client was wearing what she would usually wear<br />

for casual and at weekends, home or out.<br />

.She is dressed in all different colours from head to toe,<br />

as she falls into the petite category to elongate Claires<br />

figure the best thing to do would be to dress in one<br />

colour.<br />

.Even though the colours suit her skin tone and<br />

complexion.<br />

.The neck line ascendants her bust area showing off<br />

her curves but not having the top heavy affect.<br />

.For the hourglass it is best to keep the top of the<br />

trousers hidden, Claire has done this but I would<br />

change the top to a crouch-length.<br />

.I also thinks her legs will benefit greatly in a skinnier<br />

fitted bottoms<br />

To allow Claire to get a little more of an understanding on what suits her personally,<br />

colours and fabric. I conducted a Colour Analysis on her, like Assignment five and I<br />

also had a further understanding about my client’s needs and details, filled out on<br />

the next page.<br />

<strong>First</strong> I asked her to pick out<br />

the selection of colours did<br />

she thought suited her best.<br />

She chose winter; winter is a<br />

cool colour palette, along<br />

with summer as where<br />

autumn and spring are warm<br />

colour palettes.<br />

I wasn’t sure if winter was<br />

my clients’ prefect one so I<br />

looked at her skin tone, eyes<br />

and hair as well as her veins.<br />

I went on to complete the<br />

“house base questionnaire”<br />

to help justify my thoughts.


5. Finding more about my client<br />

• Will it be casual, relaxed, corporate, a special occasion etc.?<br />

Casual, relaxed, work<br />

• What will they be doing in the clothing and where will they be going?<br />

It will be for work, not too smart, it will be for relaxed nights out and shopping trips,<br />

• Will they be wearing it on TV?<br />

no<br />

• Will they be picking kids up from school?<br />

no<br />

• Attending meetings for fundraising?<br />

Meetings , yes<br />

• Interviewing for a new job?<br />

Potentially yes<br />

• Re-entering the work world?<br />

yes<br />

• Looking for clothing after they’ve gained or lost weight?<br />

no<br />

• How do they want to feel and look after they’ve had a few sessions with you?<br />

More organised and with outfits that can mix and match<br />

• How do they feel they look now?<br />

Definitely more confident with what I choose to wear<br />

• Do they admire the style of a specific public figure or celebrity?<br />

Yes I really like, Emma Willis<br />

• How much money do they want to spend, or a better way of phrasing the question, “Do you have a specific<br />

budget in mind for fees, clothing and alterations?<br />

I would be looking to spend £300 to add to and alter my wardrobe<br />

• Do they have a specific time to reach their goals?<br />

I would like to be sorted within the next 2 weeks<br />

After the colour analysis I needed to know more about my client’s<br />

lifestyle and have a better knowledge of her style and personality.<br />

As well as suiting her figure and complexion, her wardrobe has to<br />

find her needs so I had her fill out this small question.


6. Hourglass Images<br />

After we fully established her body size and shape I asked Claire to look up and find<br />

images of outfits she likes and would were now she knows what suit her best and tell<br />

me what she likes about them.<br />

A.I like the denim and dark tops,<br />

they all cover the middle. I prefer<br />

flat shoes too.<br />

B. I love the navy blue of this dress<br />

with middle sequins hold the waist<br />

in.<br />

C. Great shapes to hide my wide<br />

hips, but pretty/eyecatching<br />

enough for my taste.<br />

D. I think this covers a lovely set of<br />

weekend clothes.<br />

E.This is my favourite<br />

shape dress for a<br />

special event.<br />

I then showed my client the pictures I had found that I think would suit her hourglass figure


Wardrobe cleanout<br />

We moved on to conducting the “wardrobe assessment” clear-out to see the existing clothes my client<br />

already has, allowing me to plan what she need to add. By doing this I learnt a lot about Claires sense of<br />

style and also I will be able to identify places where there issues with any items or outfits.<br />

Her most worn too her hardly worn clothes and accessories were put into different named piles of<br />

doesn’t fit, don’t like, no occasion, like but forgot about and currently wear.<br />

Claire has quite a small wardrobe of clothes due to the fact that she recently got rid of very old clothes<br />

but that was without my help.<br />

My clients ‘currently wear’ pile is the largest out of them all, I notice that everything was dark or plain<br />

coloured. Even though this could be good to help with making her seem taller and slimmer but the<br />

colours may not be perfect for her complexion palate. Despite this I now understand these are the<br />

colours that she feels most confinable in.<br />

. The horrsontal stripes make<br />

her seem wider, they draw<br />

and led the eye across the<br />

body which also makes the<br />

body look shorter. Vertital<br />

stripes would be better,<br />

drawing the eyes down<br />

creating the impression that<br />

the person is leaner.<br />

.The large bright pattern<br />

doesn’t show off an hourglass<br />

figure well.<br />

.My client wears this work<br />

dress regurly but the way the<br />

sleeves are pulled tightly<br />

under the arm it makes are<br />

shoulders and arm look<br />

uncomifiable.<br />

.Even though the dress shows<br />

off her curves the is to high so<br />

the way the fabric falls over<br />

her bust and hips makes her<br />

look too top heavy.<br />

.This is taken from the ‘dislike’<br />

pile, this was the only item<br />

that she really hated.<br />

.The ill fitted shape does<br />

nothing for her curvy figure,<br />

drowning her bust and hips.<br />

.The very large printed pattern<br />

washes out my client; makes<br />

her top half look out of<br />

proportion with each other.


Claire has a lot of dark circle neck line work dresses that fall just below her knees. Now she<br />

know that she is classed as a petite, she feels that the length of the dress only looks right if<br />

wore with heels, not flat shoes; she is correct. To wear flats the best opinion would be a<br />

mini length dress.<br />

The images below show of my client in one of this dresses, wore with a cropped jacket (to<br />

make her bottom half look longer), black leggings to slim the legs and heels.<br />

The photos show the way the dress looks when it’s at its original length and the photo on<br />

the right shows when the dress is taken up and shorted; that little bit of change makes a<br />

whole difference to her look.<br />

Before<br />

Hem line taken up a couple of cm<br />

We then moved on to look at all the piles other than<br />

‘wearing currently’ and Claire said she would like to keep the<br />

‘like but nowhere to wear’ pile, just in case and I agreed.<br />

There were originally only three items of clothing Claire<br />

didn’t like, a pair of ill fitted jeans, a thin tight jumper and a<br />

too small very old top. I gave her advice on the horizontal<br />

strips, that they lead the eye across body making them seem<br />

much wider than they actually are. This useful tip to prevent<br />

adding unnecessary weight made my client dislike it.<br />

They all are still in good useable condition so we decided to<br />

bag them up and give to charity.<br />

After


I filled out a wardrobe table to get a better look at exactly what clothes and accessories my client<br />

has and allowed me to see where there were gaps in her wardrobe that need purchasing. I notice<br />

where Claire spends most of her time, plus the colours are all similar, mostly dark and plain colours.<br />

Item Summer Winter<br />

Coat/Jacket Cropped Denim Jacket 1 Short Leather Jacket 1<br />

Long red coat 1<br />

Shirt/Top Pink long tops x3<br />

White blouse x2<br />

V neck T-shirts white x1<br />

V neck T-shirt beige x1<br />

V neck T-shirt black x1<br />

Plain White tops x3<br />

Pattered grey long tops x3<br />

Dresses none Black work dress x5<br />

Grey Pencil dress x 1<br />

Leggings<br />

None Black leggings x4<br />

Black Snake print leggings x1<br />

Grey Snake print leggings x1<br />

Accessories Brown small shoulder bag<br />

Small necklace scarfs x3<br />

Thin silk scarfs x2<br />

Thin studded belt x2<br />

Skirt none none<br />

Shoes Pattered flat ballet shoesx3<br />

Toe less x4<br />

work heelsx1<br />

Cardigan/Kitwear Pink/Coral Short cardigan<br />

Grey short cardigan<br />

Beige midlength cardigan<br />

Trourers/Jeans Cream skinny jeansx1<br />

Light denim jeans skinnyx1<br />

Big black handbagx3<br />

Large Purple shoulder bag<br />

Prattened scarfs x2<br />

Big brown beltx2<br />

Knee high boots x2<br />

Black heels x2<br />

Fur bootsx3<br />

Black thin cardigan<br />

Long pale pink cardigan<br />

Long heavy knitted cardigan<br />

Denim straight jeans x2<br />

After listing everything in my clients current wardrobe it became clear that is that the most often<br />

colour palette is winter and most of her clothes are suitable for the colder weather more than the<br />

warm, for example she does not own any skirts or any other dresses then her work ones. As the<br />

summer season is now very close she will need much more brighter/fresh colours that suitable for<br />

the sun. The list below is a guide line list of what she should buy.<br />

1 short v neck dress that is pulled in at the waist – fresh light colour<br />

Pencil skirt- Dark but not dull<br />

Beige fine extra skinny trousers<br />

Slightly patterned leggings- Fresh light colour<br />

Cropped Colourful Cardigan<br />

Heels- Brighter colour


I showed my client how to mix and match items that she already owns to make up different kind<br />

of outfits for separate events, by changing the accessories and one or two pieces of clothing.<br />

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Combination 1- Casual and Work/Evening Combination 2- Work and Evening<br />

I think the cropped jacket and cardigan looks the<br />

best out of them all. It suits the petite shape and<br />

makes the body seem longer<br />

I picked this dress because of the ruffled shoulders,<br />

that make the shoulders like broader to even out<br />

the frame and also black is a slimming colour<br />

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Combination 3- Casual and Work Combination 4- Casual and Work/Evening<br />

The colours here are from the spring colour palette.<br />

The causal combination has a summer feel to it. Also<br />

the red coat is perfect of an hourglass because of the<br />

belt at the waist.<br />

The bold colour of the top half brings out the warmth<br />

in the skin tone (not very well shown in the photo)<br />

Also the cropped jacket with the heels creates a lot of<br />

height


Post-makeover<br />

.My client’s time was limited so going out shopping was not achievable; we went online<br />

shopping instead.<br />

.Claire now understands her body shape and now knows buying perfectly fitted clothes will<br />

benefit her a lot.<br />

£25.00 Pussycat Black V<br />

Neck Wrap/Newlook/£25.00<br />

.Her favourite item is a dress<br />

dress, the colour black makes<br />

everything seem slimmer.<br />

.The v neck means that Claire<br />

can show off her bust whilst<br />

staying in proportion.<br />

.The waist line sits under the<br />

chest, pulled in, letting the skirt<br />

flow out. Accentuating the waist<br />

and hips.<br />

.The mini length will long out the<br />

legs .<br />

Womens Schuh Bree Bow Court<br />

Patent High Heels/Schuh/£19.99<br />

.The large heel will make her<br />

appears taller whilst<br />

elongating the legs.<br />

.Claire used to own a pair of<br />

red heels until they were wore<br />

out. The striking red with<br />

black would show off her<br />

personality more.<br />

.She has small size 4 feet due<br />

to the shiny leather and the<br />

bow it will make them seem<br />

bigger but not overly.<br />

Kaliko Crepe Pencil Dark<br />

Pink Skirt/Kaliko/£40.00<br />

.Colour is from Claire’s<br />

seasonal colour palette,<br />

bringing new life to her<br />

wardrobe.<br />

.The pencil skirt is best for<br />

an hourglass because it<br />

hugs where it touches,<br />

showing the curves.<br />

.As it can be highwaisted it<br />

would also lengthen her petit<br />

legs.<br />

Petite Aztec Print<br />

Jegging/dorothyperkins/£25<br />

.Claire feels most<br />

comfortable in bottoms that<br />

have stretch, it is also best<br />

for an hourglass shape too<br />

so the jegging trousers are<br />

prefect.<br />

.The slight patten will keep<br />

the outfit from looking boring<br />

without being overpowering.<br />

.They do not have any<br />

fastenings so no extra bulk<br />

Crop Cardigan/H&M/£29.99<br />

.A Cropped cardigan really<br />

suited her petite but shaped<br />

figure.<br />

.The colour is also from the<br />

spring palette, I think the<br />

green will bring out her eyes<br />

and suit the colour of her<br />

current hair.<br />

.It sits above the hips, to keep<br />

balanced frame.<br />

.When done up there are only<br />

a few fastenings creating the<br />

hourglass perfect v neckline.<br />

Asos Blouse With Ruffle Cape<br />

and Pussybow/ASOS/£30.00<br />

.Colour is from the<br />

Spring/Summer palette, the<br />

best one for her skin tones.<br />

.The sleeves add more shape<br />

across the shoulders; this<br />

length sleeve will instantly slim<br />

the arm.<br />

.This flows from under the top<br />

layer of fabric, pinching in the<br />

waist.


For Claire,<br />

After shot- the best one taken for the four<br />

combinations.<br />

This outfit could be fit causal, evening or work.<br />

The colours go well together, keeping the dark<br />

colours to help slim but also bring in colours<br />

from the spring.<br />

The top is pulled in and gathered under the bust,<br />

suiting and flattering the hourglass curves.<br />

Having black heels with black bottoms noticeably<br />

lengthens the legs.<br />

The leather keeps to Claires edgy style.<br />

A summary about you<br />

You are now part of the Hourglass Petite family, with the primary colour palette of Spring. This is due to the<br />

warmer tones in your skin as well as your bright clear blue eyes and your dark mousey/brown hair; you are also<br />

close to being a summer as well because of your blonde hair as a child.<br />

Spring is a warmer palette clear and sharp colours make you come alive. Whereas the summer palette is<br />

mostly based around pastels so you are lucky because you will suit some of both.<br />

Peach, apricot, salmon, coral and peachy pinks look beautiful against your tones.<br />

You love the edgy but glamorous styles.<br />

You figure is a classic hourglass, meaning that your bust and your hips are even with a smaller waist. The<br />

best way to dress is for you to show off your best assets, drawing the eye to your curves.<br />

Being a borderline petite means that you come under 5.5, wearing clothes that lengthen your little legs, like<br />

black, skinny, and heels will keep you in balance with your curves too.<br />

Tips<br />

Black can be worn, but accessorise with spring colours, especially near the face. Eg. A bright scarf<br />

No spring should ever wear a pure white<br />

When shopping for grey, remember that only a warm yellow shade grey will suit you<br />

Maintaining a good body posture is the key for looking and walking tall.

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