Blouses: Professional Wardrobe for Women

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 proper blouses to wear with your business suits. Now when we are talking about blouses it could either be for your skirts suits or your pants suit. So lets first talk about blouses that has sleeves to them. When we are talking about blouses with sleeves it could be a full length sleeve blouse that goes with it. It could be a short sleeve. It could be a three-quarter sleeve. Three-quarter is right on your forearm. Those are appropriate blouses to wear with your business suits. That is the first thing to know about a sleeved blouse cause there are more in the ingredient that you need to know about putting a blouse with a suit. I think the most important besides the sleeves is the type of material. I lot of time women will put a cotton top, a cotton blouse, with a suit. Most suits I would say 99% of the suits are a polyester blend or a acrylic blend or a silk....blend. Cotton does not belong to those types of suits. You want the same kind of fabric within the within you blouse. For instance this is a polyester blended suit so you want a polyester blended blouse. Now it could be polyester and silk, it could be polyester and Lycra, it could be polyester and spandex, it could be straight 100 polyester, but why that is important it is because you want the fabrics to blend with the suit. You are wearing cotton with that it is not going to blend. In matter of fact that blouse is going to stick like that blouse does not belong with the suit. So make sure you look at the fabric that you put in with your blouses. Now you can wear solid blouses with suits. This blouse would go very nicely with that suit. You could wear solid blouses. You could wear blouses with color. Beautiful blouses with color. You could wear blouses that have designs. This one has a beautiful burgundy and silver design. Now this one has a polyester, spandex, and rayon so we would have to look for more cause it has the rayon in it. It is going to be a little bit more casual so you need to put it with something that may be has a little bit of rayon. But again the type of blouses long sleeves they have a nice cuff all of them. Remember it could be short sleeves, it could be three-quarter sleeve, those are nice blouses that go with a skirt or a pant suit. Thank you! "