Avoir du Style

Avoir du Style:  to have style

There's something I've been thinking out for a while; I haven't ever written about one of the loves of my life- Style and fashion. I've written about Modesty and Sewing, which are kind of related but I guess every time I thought what can I say, but then I guess I can just share a love rather than give advice. So here goes...

The art of wearing clothes is something that's always intrigued me…

Colour, pattern, texture, shape, all swirled into a mix, that can completely change a person’s mood, ‘age’ and how other people will respond and judge them.

Its like music, it’s so individual, to each person, the blending of material to express a unique soul, a flavour and taste that is so beautiful. I guess this is why I have so much of a problem with ‘fashion’, it doesn’t say anything about the person, it doesn’t speak; whereas a woman in a feminine dress with a cardigan and loads of tats does. And that’s not something I’d ever do but it doesn’t mean it’s still not beautiful.

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And the pursuit of this beauty is something that intrigues me; working with the body, with its unique colourings, not against them. And sure the style world has lots of tricks on how to make your hips look bigger or smaller or whatever -there isn’t essentially anything wrong with that.

This is why I guess I’m so into modesty too, and against it at the same time. Because you learn of all the motivations for dressing, the fact that dressing sexy isn’t fishnets and corsets (wow did I just say that) some men find girls in oversize jackets hot. But men and clothes is a whole nuther topic.

So here is a little introduction to style. It was actually pretty hard to write because it’s such a diverse controversial topic. But how about you? What do you think about clothing and style?

Style or shortness?

Ok that sounded bad....
but it is a little continuation on this modesty stuff I've been spouting ;)
-It's completely open to discussion.

Length of clothing  -great

Anyway there was this picture I found, it was talking about pants/skirts. It was a picture of a leg with several marks upon it.
bottom mark on the leg said (lower calf) matronly 
the next at mid calf, prudish
the one above old-fashioned
then proper at knee length
Flirty is at lower thigh
cheeky at mid thigh 
followed by provocative,
asking for it, slut  and at the very top: whore.

I found that very interesting, and slightly amusing. I for one tend to stick at proper for several reasons.  
One, it's not so bad on windy day -this is skirts :) 
But two is because actually (according to several modern fashion books) skirts that rest at mid thigh, in the curve just below your knee and in the curve between your knee and your thigh are actually the most  flattering.
And anyway I don't get all this nonsense about only 4 fingers above the knee (how does that work anyway? You have to bend over to measure which is silly, 'cause when you straighten it becomes several inches higher)  
But then all of this doesn't really matter to me -cause I'm in love with circular floor scrapers :)
And it doesn't to matter to you (if you are dressing yourself not your body)
it's just interesting...



   

Enneagram

I've been reading Crafting unforgettable characters an e-book and its proving quite interesting *see end of post*
And it talked of enneagrams, ennea, means 9 in greek.I didn't know what that was and it has to do with psychology.

So what is an enneagram?
It is like the king, servant, thing in my meet me post.But it is more than that.
It's to do with different personalities [warning you can't actually say someone is 1 or 2 it's their choice]
So it's useful for guess what- finding your character's personality
so what could your character be?

1# Perfectionist or Reformer [I think this is like prophet]

2# Helper, Nurturer, Giver, Caretaker or Pleaser [Servant]

3# Achiever, Succeeder, Performer

4# Artist, Individualist, Romantic [Dreamer]

5# Observer, Watcher, Thinker

6# Trooper, Loyalist, Guardian, Defender

7# Enthusiast, Adventurer

8# Controller, Aggressor,  Chief [King]

9# Peacemaker, Mediator

Twos, Threes, Fours -come from the heart- these people are more caring, more emotional, think about the past-

Fives, Sixes Sevens- are from the head- these people tend to plan, plan, plan and think about the future-

Eights, Nines, and Ones-are from the gut/body- and I suppose you can tell what these people are like-they tend to think about now/the present.

And if you are writing about a husband and wife or romance, the same thing goes for them as in the preparing to be a help meet, opposites attract, good thing for us writers because it causes conflict, which is needed in stories, and it's just good in general, imagine two pleasers married! They'd  both be up at 5am bumping heads, because their making each other breakfast in bed!!!Or two Controllers trying to boss each other round.God knew!!! What a relief!*some people do marry the same but it's very rare*
Hope you found that interesting.I'll talk about how birth order can change your character.

Miss Tiffany

* You can get the free e-book crafting unforgettable characters at wordplay