First find your own style, regardless of what’s in currently or out currently. Make sure you know what looks good on your body size and type. Get a color analysis at least once in your life or just start asking your friends and family what colors look best on me. Go to stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and window shop, next go to stores like H&M and just browse, take notes or pics with your cell phone. If you are working ten hour days and don’t have time just breeze through their websites. Subscribe to the Zoe Report, by Rachael Zoe celebrity stylist to the stars. Read W, Women’s Wear Dailey, Vogue, and several different fashion magazines just to see what’s in style. Get a great basic high quality wardrobe then add trendy accessories to change it up.
Once you know what high-end basics that you really want in your wardrobe check out discount sites like ebay.com, overstocks.com, and consignment shops. For instance if you know you want a pair of black Tory Burch Pumps but don’t have $300 to add them to your wardrobe, by a used or new pair on ebay for $100.00. Check out stores like T.J. Maxx, Marshall’s, SteinMart, and Ross for great deals. Steer clear of the Mall unless you are hitting an end of season sale, with final clearance and markdowns. You can buy a garment or shoe and put it up for next year. The “shoe boot” has now made it through two fashion seasons and last year I hit an end of season sale and purchased some Carlos Santana shoe boots for under $20.00. Start learning what brands that you really love, which ones hold up well in the wash etc. and how they fit. A few years ago I really wanted a Hermes Birkin Bag. They start between $6,000-$50,000 a bag. Now even if I had this much cash just lying around I am way too thrifty to make this purchase. So I found the highest quality leather look alike bag I could. I found this while on vacation in Italy and I purchased it. For awhile women stopped me in shops and on the street and said, “is that a Birkin?” Sometimes “OMG, is that a Birkin?”. I have done the same over the years with the Marc Jacobs iconic bag, the chanel quilted purse and now I am in search of the perfect Michael Kors python bag. The most important thing in dressing well again is to find your own style, be comfortable with your clothing and yourself and do a little research.