Build a Basic Wardrobe

Series Summary

Fashion design is a burgeoning industry, responsible for everything from plain white T-shirts that come in bags of three to high-profile haute couture fashion on the runways of New York, Paris and Milan. A fashion designer often begins with an inspiration or theme in mind before filling fashion croquis with illustrations of collection items: skirts, jackets, lingerie, hats, etc. After weeding through the many rough sketches, a designer finds the best garment ideas and creates cleaner illustrations with notes on fabrics and hems for the manufacturer. Fashion design allows aspiring artists a career of creativity, tangible results and glamor. In this free video series, an etiquette consultant provides fashion advice for both men and women. Discover how to build a man's fall wardrobe, how to build a woman's spring wardrobe and how to buy a woman's business suit. Learn about dressing for body shape, wearing dress-up jeans and wearing slimming dresses. With this fashion advice, men and women alike will be looking good in and out of the office.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Gabriela Garzon at G.G. Image & Etiquette Consulting in Miami, Florida. In this clip we're going to talk about how to build a basic wardrobe. Because it's basic, we're going to concentrate in a black suit basically the jacket with the pants. The pants and also you should have like the pairing of a scarf like one scarf or two in the same color of the suit that you buy it first. You can have another suit that's a little different like pinstripes or you can just have like a brown type of suit or a neutral type of color. You should always have some type of like a black dress or like a sheaved type of dress that you can just wear with anything from day to night. You need basic blouses, depending on your weather, you should have like long sleeves or like shorter or three-quarters type of sleeves. You should always have two or three type of different sweaters that you can match with the different trousers and with the suit that you have. With the trousers, you can just go ahead and have maybe like in navy color and now like a brown or kind of like neutral color and of course you should always have a black pumps and fun color shoes and of course have fun with accessories and different bags, the black bag and all of that stuff. So that's basically what you need for a basic wardrobe. This is Gabriela Garzon at G.G. Image & Etiquette Consulting."