Accessories: Professional Wardrobe for Women

Series Summary

Your clothes say a lot about you, and this is never more true than in the world of business. In order to be successful in the professional world, we must present ourselves in a manner which inspires confidence and trust not only in clients and colleagues, but in ourselves. Feeling good about the way you look can encourage positive thinking and creativity, and often times the right attire can give you the self-confidence you need to close a deal. Creating a professional wardrobe for women is easy.

In this series of free video clips you’ll learn how to create a professional business image. Expert image consultant Jamie Yasko-Mangum offers tips and advice on building a wardrobe for a woman that presents an image of professionalism and poise. You’ll get tips on the various cuts and colors of suits, including skirt and pants suits, what sorts of blouses, camisoles and shoes are appropriate for the workplace, and what color and style of hose or tights to wear with your suit. By following the advice in these informative videos you’ll learn to dress for success.

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Jamie Yasko-Mangum and with Successful Style and Image today on Expert Village we are going to talk about accessories that you need to put with your business suits. As you can just tell I am very emphatic With accessories going with your business suits. Here we have with our burgundy suit we have a necklace that actually makes the suit pop. Thats what accessories do they can make your suit pop. What I don't want to accessories to do is to take away from the whole suit. But I don't want them to be disguised in the suit. I want them to blend yet make the suit pop. So here we have the black that not only matches the camey but also matches the pewter buttons on the suit. So when button the suit it looks very nice. It all pulls together, it all pulls together. You would also with the necklace you would put earrings. Earrings would need to be silver or silver and black. Because you all want it to blend. You want your accessories to blend. Now it is not only necklaces and earrings there other types of accessories you could put with your business skirt suites and also with your pants suit. For instance we have scarf. Now understand I'm showing you accessories not necessarily they go with the suit. You have a scarf here is a lavender and purple color and black. That would go good with a solid color lavender or black suit. What you do not want to do is put a design that is in the scarf with a design that is with the suit. This needs to be needs to be the compliment the solid color suit. Here we have a blue and black. Here we have toke color and tan. You might want to also look at belts. These are nice jeweled belts that can go with suits. Now remember your jacket is going to come down pretty far. However most times during the day you don't usually have your jacket button it is usually open. So you can put this silver this silver belt and let it hang down here by the suit. What you don't want to do is you don't want to over load the accessories with your suits. For instance you don't want to have a necklace, a scarf, a chain belt, earrings, that is over loading the whole look that you are going to have. So you want to keep it a minimum. You also have necklaces that you can wear, earrings, you can have bracelets, but remember that necklaces and the earrings need to have some kind of blending together. So remember accessories are extremely important when you put them with your skirt suits and your pant suits. Thank you!"