Petite & apple - Caryn Franklin's How to Look Good

Introduction
Ballerina neck
Square neck
Ballerina neck
This is a high wrap that generally has less
depth than an ordinary v-neckline. You
will find it in knitwear or tops.
Square neck
This can be found in tops, dresses and
occasionally in knitwear.
A horizontal line running across
the top of the body will accentuate
broadness and width.
Avoid if you have square shoulders.
If I were spending time with you, I would find out how you feel about
your body and how you have chosen to dress. Then I would set about
changing some of the visual boundaries you have cemented in place.
I’ve often been told ‘I don’t do girly,’ ‘I’m too big to wear that’ or ‘I don’t
have the body for that. ’ These and many other rules we make for
ourselves need to be gently challenged; further in the book you will see
my responses to the things you tell me.
Many women I work with also say how frustrating it is that the
fashion industry seems to change its ideas and designs so frequently. So
just when you have found a style or colour that suits you, you can’t be
sure of finding it the next season when the new ideas arrive. Similarly,
fashion magazines often talk in seasons - telling you one thing one
season only to change their ideas the next. The fact is, fashion
information changes every season. There is no other industry I can
think of that puts out a different set of rules every six months. Imagine
cookery writers telling you a brand new way to make a cake each
season with completely different ingredients depending on which
ingredients were seasonally approved. Or what about a gardening
magazine that would recommend you change all the plants in your
garden each season. It’s that spooky!
Yet we receive the fashion industry into our lives on that very basis.
Of course change is good and making changes that feel right can be
liberating. Feeling like you are forced to make changes, however,
is not fun.
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