Image management. What did you just think of reading these words? Getting a makeover, attending a personality or grooming workshop? Let me begin by stating that image management is far more than visiting a beauty parlour, buying clothes from a fashion designer or going for diet / weight management programme.
Image management is actually an ongoing proactive process of evaluating and controlling the impact of your appearance on you, on others and on the achievement of your goals. Your image is you in the eyes and minds of others. You are perceived evaluated, and judged on the image you project or reflect.
As an individual living and working in a highly complex and competitive society, you must recognise and understand the impact of your perceived image as it communicates first to you then to others.
An important component of your image is the clothes you wear. This includes not just your choice
of clothes but also how you wear them. You need to understand your enhancing and suppressing features to highlight or hide. It needs ongoing evaluation of oneself to keep changing with age, circumstances and with changing roles and goals.
Albert Mehrabian the famous scientist did a research which said 80% of your message is visual, out of which 50% is by the clothes you wear. So select clothing styles that meet your individual personality.
Common sense tells you to avoid clothing styles that expose or emphasize and therefore reinforce, figure variations that you don't want to get noticed.
� For example: Strapless or sleeveless outfits expose the body to view and generally emphasize whatever is seen. Short sleeves expose the arm, shorts skirts expose the leg, and so on. If that's not what you want, you'll need to cover up.
� Narrow shapes and tight fitting or clingy fabric expose whatever body part is underneath. If that's not what you want, you'll want slightly wider shapes and a looser fit.
� A helpful general guideline is to look for clothing styles that will naturally accommodate your figure type and any other figure variations. In other words, the garment shape makes visual sense, as it essentially repeats your body shape.
� Clothing styles in this shape are made for you.
� Selected in the right size with ample ease allowance, these styles flow easily over your entire figure, even areas where you may be larger. For example, an A-line skirt or shirtwaist dress with a flared skirt easily accommodates the proportionally larger hip and thigh area of a triangular figure. A wedge-style chemise dress easily accommodates
the proportionally larger shoulders of an inverted triangular figure. Flowing easily over bust, midriff, and waist below. A contrasting yoke on a sportshirt or polo created by colour, texture, or pattern can naturally accommodate a triangular male body. Sizing may require minor adjustment or alteration for a fabulous fit.
Also, always look for clothing styles that naturally camouflage and create attractive illusions about body areas that you may consider less attractive and reinforce or emphasize the most attractive characteristics about your figure. If better balance is needed, you're looking for clothing styles that will fill out smaller or narrower areas of your figure to counterbalance larger area. In most cases, you want to lead attention in the opposite direction from the body. For example, Palazzo pants work to fill out the leg area of an inverted triangular or diamond-shaped figure for better balance with the top of the figure. At the same time, width at the hem of the pants will emphasize slim ankles. A men's suit jacket with peaked lapels and well- proportioned shoulder pads counter the narrower shoulders of a triangular body.
Choose style shapes with characteristics that look, feel, and hang appropriately for the fabric of the garment. Coordinate or combine shapes as well as separates in two or more styles, to achieve greater variety, interest, and individuality .�
Image management is actually an ongoing proactive process of evaluating and controlling the impact of your appearance on you, on others and on the achievement of your goals. Your image is you in the eyes and minds of others. You are perceived evaluated, and judged on the image you project or reflect.
As an individual living and working in a highly complex and competitive society, you must recognise and understand the impact of your perceived image as it communicates first to you then to others.
An important component of your image is the clothes you wear. This includes not just your choice
of clothes but also how you wear them. You need to understand your enhancing and suppressing features to highlight or hide. It needs ongoing evaluation of oneself to keep changing with age, circumstances and with changing roles and goals.
Albert Mehrabian the famous scientist did a research which said 80% of your message is visual, out of which 50% is by the clothes you wear. So select clothing styles that meet your individual personality.
Common sense tells you to avoid clothing styles that expose or emphasize and therefore reinforce, figure variations that you don't want to get noticed.
� For example: Strapless or sleeveless outfits expose the body to view and generally emphasize whatever is seen. Short sleeves expose the arm, shorts skirts expose the leg, and so on. If that's not what you want, you'll need to cover up.
� Narrow shapes and tight fitting or clingy fabric expose whatever body part is underneath. If that's not what you want, you'll want slightly wider shapes and a looser fit.
� A helpful general guideline is to look for clothing styles that will naturally accommodate your figure type and any other figure variations. In other words, the garment shape makes visual sense, as it essentially repeats your body shape.
� Clothing styles in this shape are made for you.
� Selected in the right size with ample ease allowance, these styles flow easily over your entire figure, even areas where you may be larger. For example, an A-line skirt or shirtwaist dress with a flared skirt easily accommodates the proportionally larger hip and thigh area of a triangular figure. A wedge-style chemise dress easily accommodates
the proportionally larger shoulders of an inverted triangular figure. Flowing easily over bust, midriff, and waist below. A contrasting yoke on a sportshirt or polo created by colour, texture, or pattern can naturally accommodate a triangular male body. Sizing may require minor adjustment or alteration for a fabulous fit.
Also, always look for clothing styles that naturally camouflage and create attractive illusions about body areas that you may consider less attractive and reinforce or emphasize the most attractive characteristics about your figure. If better balance is needed, you're looking for clothing styles that will fill out smaller or narrower areas of your figure to counterbalance larger area. In most cases, you want to lead attention in the opposite direction from the body. For example, Palazzo pants work to fill out the leg area of an inverted triangular or diamond-shaped figure for better balance with the top of the figure. At the same time, width at the hem of the pants will emphasize slim ankles. A men's suit jacket with peaked lapels and well- proportioned shoulder pads counter the narrower shoulders of a triangular body.
Choose style shapes with characteristics that look, feel, and hang appropriately for the fabric of the garment. Coordinate or combine shapes as well as separates in two or more styles, to achieve greater variety, interest, and individuality .�
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