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Fitted streamlined jacketJACKET SHAPESTHIS SECTION GIVES YOU ANINSIGHT INTOTHOSEALL-IMPORTANT OUTER LAYERS. BYTHEIR VERY NATURE JACKETS ARETAILORED TO SOME DEGREE ANDHAVE BELT, POCKET AND COLLARFEATURES. (I’VE DONE A SEPARATECOLLAR GUIDE OVERLEAF). I WILLALSO BE TALKING ABOUT LENGTHSHERE NOT JUST FOR JACKETSBUT COATS TOO SINCE THE SAMESTYLES APPEAR WITHEXTRA LENGTH.FITTED STREAMLINED JACKETThe fitted streamlined jacket comes in avariety of styles but is identifiable by itslack of features and undefined waist. It isa classic style and often in a soft leatheror glazed gabardine fabrics.Colour has the ability to draw the eye to wherever it is placed. It canalso be a helpful tool in playing up or down certain parts of your body.So use colour with the knowledge that a dark colour minimises andnarrows the part of the body it covers and bright orlight colouraccentuates or draws attention to the part of the body it covers.Firstly, choose colour to suit your skin tone. If you are pale find a tonalmatch in your favourite colour. What I’m saying here is that you canwear any colour you damn well please but it must be tonallycompatible to your skin and hair. Let’s take blue for instance - thereis a huge selection of tones from baby blue to peacock blue andmidnight blue. Discount the primary version immediately. Primarycolours suit very few skin tones over five years old.Then apply this basic rule: If you are pale, choose a blue that is notpigment intense. If you are mid-tone, choose a blue with a mediumamount of pigment and, if you are dark, you can go all the way. Putsimply this means that pale skins can wear lights but not brights (richcolour will make you look washed out). Mid-tones can wear lights orbrights that are not too rich and not too pale and dark skins can wearbrights but not lights (a pale colour can often look faded and washedout unable to offer any complimentary glow to dark skin).Caryn Franklin’s How to Look Good