Creating and maintaining the right personal image for you and your company

If only I can sew things properly...I've learned how to sew in grade 3, and grades 6 through 8. Yet for someone as clumsy as me, sewing something together is a hopeless disaster. I remember my stuffed frog in grade 7 turned out to be an mash of something unrecognizable, and a skirt I made in grade 8 had a waist that was bigger than the bottom (it was a knee length skirt). Just the other day I had to quickly patch up a hole in one of my sweat pants - the job was a mess. Hopeless me! I guess sewing, drawing a straight line, cutting straight and folding papers properly are not my forte. Image consulting is much easier for me than these tasks, believe me!

Thank goodness for alterations. For the coming year I will be in a training role, where I may need to wear my high quality suits. It has been a few years since I really needed to wear them - my usual work is professional casual, not formal corporate. And then I lost a few pounds. Those suits are now baggy.

I took these suits to my tailor today. After pinning the clothes here and there, the suits already looked fantastic - as if I was getting a whole new wardrobe. These clothes look timeless, because they are simple in style - plain or subtly striped. And they are good quality clothes - made of fine wool. 

This is another reason to get clothes as high quality as you can - so that they can be taken in and out properly. Clothes that are low in quality - the seams are not very generous and tailors cannot let out the clothes as needed. Great clothes are investments - buy for the timelessness if you are to put lots of money in quality clothes. Do not look for ones that will only last a season or two - these are clothes that are big, bold and colourful. Seasonal trends are best if you they are low in cost.  

Try this - go through your closet, and try on clothes that are simple in style that may not fit you. Then take them to alterations. You'd be glad for it, I promise!