Create Your Personal Style in 6 Weeks

LESSON #1: Uncovering Your Inner Beauty Style

— (a fun exercise will be sent in advance).
If you dream of feeling more confident about what ‘your style’ is, this is the powerful and empowering missing element. I suspect you’re hiding in a wardrobe you don’t love because you don’t know how to recognize and reflect who you are through your clothing choices. That’s why you’re here! This class is all about uncovering what makes you special…what make you you.

Uncovering your inner beauty is one of the most important tools to help guide your choices and it will prove to be invaluable in helping you create a look you love. It is a foundation component in building your wardrobe and this concept will be woven throughout all the classes.

We’ll explore the many ways you can express who you are through your wardrobe choices. As Stefanie J. shares, “About twenty minutes into the first class I mentally threw out all the “rules” and “tips” from fashion magazines that I had absorbed over the years. I suddenly understood that none of them were helpful because they didn’t apply to me as an individual – both my body and appearance, and who I am on the inside. Ginger helped me learn to dress for who I am, and then gave me the tools and know-how for building up my unique wardrobe.”

LESSON #2: Identifying YOUR Best Basics.

Having a good foundation on which to build your wardrobe is critical. Without it, you’ll feel pulled in a million directions or discouraged when things don’t work together. Understanding what basics work for you and streamlining your approach will make getting dressed and shopping SO much easier. You’ll have a plan…a strategy based on a powerful foundation.

We’ll walk through how you establish YOUR best basics—because it varies for everyone. As you fine tune this practice, you will use this information to clear out your closet, refocus your shopping strategy and get dressed with ease.

Sarah Bernd says, “Great class last night! I feel like I’m getting a road map – a very personalized road map.”

LESSON #3: How to Add Visual Interest to Your Outfit.

One of the reasons women don’t love their wardrobe is they find it boring, ho-hum and even frumpy. Part of the reason for this is often because the outfit lacks any visual interest. Basics and classic styling are good, but too much of a good thing can also feel boring and lackluster.

Let’s explore some key ways to add visual interest to an outfit. Since we will address accessories in a later class, we’ll focus here on prints, in particular and touch on texture.

If you find choosing a print mystifying or overwhelming and often come home empty handed, there’s a solution for that:

I’ll introduce the 5 ways to identify your best prints so you can feel more empowered the next time you shop.

Learn how to add visual interest by including texture in your wardrobe:

• How do you choose your best texture?
• How much texture is too much?
• What are the different kinds of texture?
• What’s the easiest way to add texture to an outfit without feeling like it’s too much?

Bring a print or texture to the class so you can practice and ask questions while we’re together (or send a picture of one in advance). Here’s what Nancy Korn says about this class, “It was fun to use your ‘visual interest’ guidelines as a framework to review all of the patterns in my wardrobe. It suddenly became clear why there were some patterns that I loved and others that I hardly ever wore!”

LESSON #4: Finding the Perfect Shoes to Complete Your Outfit.

Shoes can make or break an outfit and with so many different pant styles and skirt lengths out there how do you know what to pair with what? Add to that the frustration of finding comfortable shoes in a heel height (or flats) that you love wearing and the problem is magnified.

We’ll talk about:

• Which shoes work best with which pant styles?
• How do you create good balance and a harmonious flow?
• How do your inner beauty words affect your shoe choices?
• Does the color of your shoes matter?
• Can flats work with any outfit?

I will show you lots of examples of shoe before and afters so you can see the difference shoes can make in creating harmony in an outfit and so you can start creating your own shoe list (which ones to get rid of and what you need more of)!

You can send me examples you’re struggling with before the class and I’ll help you – as well as ask specific questions during the class. Sharon Palmer has found this to be very helpful as she mentions here: “I love the before/after pictures you use in the class. It’s so helpful to hear your explanations as to why the before picture didn’t really work that well for the particular woman and why the after picture did. I’ve learned how to look at outfits in a whole new way just from that part of the classes.”

LESSON #5: How to Accessorize Like a Pro.

Wearing jewelry is one of the easiest ways to add visual interest to an outfit AND to make an outfit look different. Yet I often hear from women that they avoid jewelry or wear the same thing day after day because they aren’t sure how to make the most of what they have.

Jewelry is an extremely versatile and valuable part of your wardrobe and knowing how to select pieces with confidence and wear your jewelry with joy will make getting dressed even more satisfying!

How do you know what jewelry works with which outfits? The key factors in selecting jewelry is to complement an outfit and we’ll address how to do that with specific examples. And you are invited to bring jewelry to the class to ask questions and determine how it works based on what I share.

Lori from California is having fun putting together outfits and accessorizing them: “I put together an outfit and was shocked when everything came together so quickly and nicely! I put that pink sweater you liked with a scarf, something I would have not done before. Also, I had picked up some silver “button” earrings and looked in the mirror and said “Wow, who knew that would look good?  Uh… Ginger!”  I smiled, chuckled to myself, and went out the door feeling good (and grateful) in my newly created outfit. What a wonderful experience!”

LESSON #6: Putting It All Together: From Separates to Outfits

Now that you have the tools you need to create outfits that make your heart sing, it’s time to pull it together and watch the magic happen. I will walk you through how to take everything we’ve addressed from the previous five classes and create a variety of capsule wardrobes. You’re encouraged to practice this and share your successes, your new questions and any stuck points that pop up so you can continue to ‘create your personal style’ in the weeks, months and years to come!

In this lesson we will cover:

• Walk you through the steps of creating a capsule wardrobe using the tools you’ve learned in classes #1-#5.
• Share several examples of capsule wardrobes with a variety of styles, colors, lifestyles and self-expression.
• Go more deeply into how your inner beauty words dramatically affect your wardrobe choices. Focusing on some of the more challenging words to express (this is invaluable!).
• Plus a few surprises!
• Feel more confident branching out to explore new styles while staying true to who you are (this is a vital part of your personal style journey).
• Receive an invaluable checklist that will keep you from making fashion mistakes.

Christine Flanagan is excited to make new great choices: “After taking your class, I can see where I have wasted money in the past, buying things that weren’t fitting for me. It’s been an eye-opening experience. I can move forward now with knowledge and confidence. I really appreciate all that you share in your zoom classes. Very insightful!”