Matching a Necklace to a Neckline

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Rachel and I'm the owner of AustinStyleWatch.com street fashion site, and I'm also a freelance fashion writer and today we're going to talk about how to find the right necklace for the right neckline that you're wearing. So, before we start matching the two up, we're going to talk about some basic principles. The first thing we're going to talk about is that the idea of matching the necklace and the neckline is that the necklace and the neckline aren't ever going to compete. And by compete, I mean like match up at the same area. So you wouldn't want your charm on your necklace or the base of your necklace hitting right where your neckline is. The two get lost up in one another and you lose the effect of both. The second principle that we're going to talk about, look at your body. And if you're a little heavier or your fat folds or anything, you don't want your necklace to get caught in them, to be competing with them to exaggerate the roundness of them. So, if you have cleavage, choose a little bit higher necklace regardless of your neckline so you're not getting it down there in the cleavage. If you have rolls on your neck, make sure its not getting caught up in those, it just betrays the look a little bit. The third principle we're going to talk about, and this again with that body type, is if you have larger shoulders, just a big frame-- not just fat-- but just a big frame, you're going to want to choose larger pieces of jewelry. Just in proportion. A larger woman, larger jewelry. Smaller women, smaller jewelry. So, now that we got those out of the way, we're going to talk about matching the necklace with the neckline. So for things like a strapless or a tank top, something where you have a lot of neckline exposed, you can choose a little big bigger, louder necklace and you want it close up on your neck. Might want to match these pearls with this one. They ride up high, right around the collar bone. They don't meet the neckline and they leave that exposed chest right there. So we're going to lay on our next look. And our next look is going to be the v-neck. Now, for the v-neck, it's really good to match it with pearl drop, or drop down necklaces. It creates just like a picture in a frame, a nice little frame that they can fall down into. And our example for this one is going to be this little charm. It's going to go around the neck and it falls right there in the chest, right in the v. So it accentuates both the shirt and the necklace. Finally, our last look we're going to do, this is a common office one. It's going to be a collared shirt. And with a collared shirt, we have this sort of "v" principle that we just showed. But, since it's kind of plain and since it creates little bit more exaggerated frame around us, you can choose kind of a loud necklace to choose with it. So you get the plain while, and the pop of a loud necklace underneath. So, now you've learned the basic principles of how to match your neckline and your necklace."