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Wardrobe boot camp: How to pack for a work trip

How to dress for work

Editor’s note: I’m heading to Sydney today to attend Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia and blog for Maybelline NY. Helping me out are some of my blogging friends. Because I commission these posts and these bloggers are helping me to keep my blog running while I’m away from regular duties, I’ll also be paying them for their contributions.Continue Reading

Unlock Your Style in 14 Days: The e-book

Unlock Your Style | Styling You ebook

Personal style is a funny thing, isn’t it? For starters, it’s well … personal. Which means what YOU like to wear may not be the same as what I like to wear. But do you know what? That is a very good thing. Imagine if we were all walking around dressed EXACTLY the same. CookieContinue Reading

Wardrobe boot camp: from beach to boardroom style

wardrobe boot camp: beach to boardroom

Editor’s note: This is regular series in which we help Styling You readers solve a particular wardrobe or clothing crisis with a little advice and some shopping suggestions. If you think you’d like to be considered as part of a Wardrobe Boot Camp post, then please email me (nikki@stylingyou.com.au) with a couple of photos and aContinue Reading

Wardrobe boot camp: how to climb out of a style rut

How to climb out of a style rut

Editor’s note: I’m heading to Sydney today to speak at the Digital Parents Conference. Helping me out over the next couple of the days are the first of some semi-regular freelance blogger contributions you’ll see here on Styling You. Because I’m commissioning these posts and these bloggers are helping me to keep my blog running while I’mContinue Reading

How to style coloured jeans three ways for autumn 2013

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I was asked recently if coloured jeans were still “in” this autumn-winter. The person asking was holding her breath in response for my answer. She’d dipped her toes – or should that be her legs? – into this trend last year and really wanted to be dipping those legs in colour again. If you’re inContinue Reading

Wardrobe boot camp: how to get out the door faster

Get out the door for work faster

Editor’s note: This is regular series in which we help Styling You readers solve a particular wardrobe or clothing crisis with a little advice and some shopping suggestions. If you think you’d like to be considered as part of a Wardrobe Boot Camp post, then please email me (nikki@stylingyou.com.au) with a couple of photos and aContinue Reading

Wardrobe boot camp: post maternity clothes

Wardrobe boot camp: post maternity clothes

Editor’s note: Welcome to the first of a series in which I help Styling You readers solve a particular wardrobe or clothing crisis with a little advice and some shopping suggestions. If you think you’d like to be featured as part of a Wardrobe Boot Camp post, then please email me (nikki@stylingyou.com.au) with a coupleContinue Reading

10 formal dress shopping tips

10 formal dress shopping tips

Editor’s note: Last year I had it fairly easy as far as school formal shopping goes because it was my eldest son’s event. We bought him a suit that will get a lot of wear this year at university balls. Now, it’s my daughter’s turn but even that’s turning out easier than I anticipated. WeContinue Reading

How to take a capsule wardrobe from casual to evening

Jo Castro

Editor’s note: A big, big reward about writing and publishing this blog is that I get to follow readers’ style journeys. Jo has blogged here before about not being invisible after turning 50. She’s back with us today proving once again that style does not come with a use-by-date. It’s a personal thing. It’s aboutContinue Reading

Who am I to be fabulous? One reader’s Unlock Your Style journey

Unlock Your Style case study | Michelle Stedman | Raising Will

Editor’s note: I was completely blown away by the passion of the beautiful women not only coming to my blog for the Unlock Your Style series in January but with the way they embraced the challenges and made changes to their life because of it. One such reader was Michelle Stedman. I’m thrilled that MichelleContinue Reading

Unlock your style in 14 days: Forget the rules. Write your own

Forget the rules. Write your own

I’m a little bit emotional. We’re here. It’s the final day at the Styling You Unlock Your Style Holiday Camp and I’m a bit overwhelmed at how many of you have joined in this journey, sharing your style stories and quite happily receiving a gentle bum kick where required I’ve had a lot of questionsContinue Reading