subject: Easily Avoidable Fashion Faux Pas [print this page] When walking into a ladies clothes shop, it is best to be prepared with a list of fashion dos and donts. If you fail to take heed of the most common types of fashion mistakes, then you are likely to waste a lot of money on expensive items that do not suit you. Everyone, at one time or another, makes horrendous fashion mistakes, avoid them by sticking to the following golden rules of fashion.
Choose a colour that suits you
Depending on your hair colour, eye colour, and skin colour, you need to wear different coloured clothes. With regards to eye colour, the only advice is to choose shades in the same colour, to bring out your eyes. With regards to hair and skin colour, fair coloured people need to choose bright colours that contrast with their skin tone, but avoid pale and pastel colours. Olive skins can wear any colour, but should avoid yellow and green; all depths are good, from extremely vibrant, to pastel. Darker complexions can wear all colours, but should not choose shades that are too bright.
Fit
A great many people choose clothing that is the wrong size. When trying clothes on in a ladies clothes shop, make sure that they are not too tight so if you have to squeeze into a size 0, then you are probably a size 2 and should choose corresponding dress sizes. Likewise, if you find that you fit easily into a particular size and that the clothes are slightly baggy, they are probably too big and you should choose a smaller size. Remember that clothes tend to expand with wear, so if they are baggy in the shop, after a few hours wear, they will be far too big this is particularly true of jeans.
The wrong colour tights
After following the above advice regarding the colours that you should be buying, you need to ensure that your clothes are colour coordinated in the right way. Many women make the mistake of matching the colour of their tights to the colour of their tops, but with tights, you must ensure that they actually match the colour of your hem.
VPL
For those of you who have never come across this term, or who have heard of it but do not know what it means, VPL is the acronym of visible panty line. Make sure that your underwear cannot be seen through the material of your clothes. VPL happen when the outerwear is too tight, and the underwear is also too tight, and leads to unsightly outlines.
Shoes
Another common fashion mistake is to wear the wrong colour of shoes for the outfit. For everybody, men, women, adults, and children, the essential rule of footwear is to wear a pair that is a shade darker than your trousers.
