Dynamic Wardrobe Choices
using your personal
BEAUTY CODE SYSTEM
Once you understand the long and short areas of your figure, as well as the wide and narrow areas, you will see how the correct clothing choices can balance your figure imbalances.
“When you wear the colors that balance your coloring to pure light and when you wear clothing that brings your figure to ideal balance you will love your clothes and your closet will work for you as your friend.” Marilyn Starr Harris
Marilyn’s new beauty discoveries will revolutionize the way you approach style.
With her system, you will make correct fashion choices, like how to choose your best . . .
Blue Green (Aquamarine)
Necklines
Skirt Lengths & Shapes
Sleeve Lengths & Shapes
Heel Heights
Textures and Fabrics
Accessories
. . . to optimize your specific figure.
With the knowledge that comes from the Beauty Code, you will know how to define your best clothing choices. Choosing clothes becomes simple. You quickly find the correct combinations for your figure.
The Beauty Code System embraces you just as you are. It doesn’t matter how tall or short you are, or how much you weigh.
The Beauty Code System uses Marilyn’s New Discoveries in Science . . .
. . . to make you look your best and most beautiful.
Blue Purple (Sapphire)
Louise K, counselor, says this: “I had a dress I loved but every time I wore it I felt uncomfortable. I didn’t know why. When my Beauty Code Figure Analysis and Style Guide came back, I learned that I had short legs, so I should avoid dropped waistlines. This dress was in my right colors but the wrong style. It had a dropped waistline that made my short legs look even shorter. Now I knew why I felt uncomfortable in the dress. I also understood why I had a hard time throwing it away—I loved the color. With this new understanding I could put the dress in the Goodwill box and feel good about it. Thanks so much for this amazing system, Marilyn. It always works.”
Marilyn comments, “Our friend, Larry R., owned an expensive wool coat in his right colors. His wife complained that he never wore it. When I analyzed it, I realized the buttons were set low having the same visual effect as a dropped waistline. The low set buttons made his legs look shorter. Like Louise, he felt uncomfortable wearing it so chose other coats first. He could have a tailor reset the buttons higher.”
Red Purple (Ruby)
When I visited Emily’s closet, she brought out an expensive sweater, a birthday gift from her husband. After her first few times wearing it, she passed over it for other clothes. She felt guilty because she didn’t like the sweater but didn’t know why. The first thing I noticed was its raglan sleeves. Emily had narrow, sloping shoulders, so the raglan sleeves made her shoulders appear even more narrow and more sloping. Even if we put shoulder pads in the sweater, the raglan line would “droop” the look of her shoulders. We can build up her shoulder with the right styles in her clothing, hair, and jewelry selections.
Fashion gives us fresh new ideas and welcomed changes—sometimes.
I like the phrase, “Swing with fashion, but adjust the tempo to your own tune.”
Why?
Red Orange (Garnet)
Because fashion changes don’t always fit all of us equally well. For example, in 2010, we’re finishing the long, fitted T-shirt over a tight body shirt, edged with lace at the bottom, ending over the tummy; skin tight jeans, boots in a variety of looks; big, elaborate purses or tiny decorative shoulder bags; elaborate shoes—many with a Roman sandal design. The flared-leg pant is back (from the 70s and 30s) worn long with high heeled, pointed toed shoes. I smile. I’ve seen these looks before with slight variations. Older women won’t, and shouldn’t, wear the long fitted double t-shirt look with decorative lace at the bottom. It spotlights the tummy and top of the hips—one of the fullest parts of a woman’s body. Only rail thin women can get away with it. During the next ten years, fashion designers will likely “flip” the look over, putting the emphasis on the shoulders.
Yellow Orange (Topaz)
Every ten years, we get a fashion silhouette shape as the current look. (See Fashion Cycles on this website.) Carrie Ipson, my assistant, put an engaging collage together for each ten years. Look for the dominant shape for each era. The shape for the Roaring 20s was the rectangle or tube, hence the “flapper” dress with hair tight to the head and close fitting caps. I loved the look. The 30s and 40s featured broad shoulders, slim skirts and slacks—the triangle shape with the point at the bottom. The 50s followed with the hour-glass silhouette; clothes followed the body shape with a bust, waist, and then flared skirts. The 60s was the bell or dome shape . . . Jackie Kennedy modeled it well. Then in the 70s, we moved into the triangle again, but this time the point was at the top. Remember Sassoon’s close to the head hairstyles, narrow shoulders and bell-bottom pants worn with heels so the full flair of the pant had advantage. We’re seeing a similar look at the beginning of 2010. This gives you the idea of the main shapes emphasized by fashion eras and their designers.
Through all the fashion changes, classics stay fashionable. Classics include the hour-glass and straight (rectangle or tube) silhouettes.
Both these silhouettes translate into jacket, dress, and pant designs. For example, the straight jacket, tube dress, and straight (stovepipe) pant leg; the shaped jacket and dress. You’ll see these in every era.
When you work from classics, you can keep a current look in jackets, jewelry, and hairstyle.
Yellow Green (Peridot)
From twelve to twenty-seven, we’re very “into” the only fashion era we’ve really known. Our bodies are young. We can and do wear most anything. By the time we’re thirty, however, reality arrives. We know better what looks good on us, what we like. At thirty, we want better, more individual answers to help us in our efforts to always look good. This is where The Beauty Code comes in.
You have a beauty signature as unique, personal, and valuable as your own written signature. You have shapes in clothing, hairstyles and makeup patterns that work best for your body. When you know those, you can always look for those shapes in every new fashion era. You’re swinging with fashion, but you’re adjusting it to those fashions that look best for your body—your tune.
The new beauty-makeup book, Unlocking Your Beauty Code, gives you an abbreviated outline of how to balance your body with clothing lines and shapes.
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