Style Tips

Dresses have been our friends for so long, we have almost forgotten about wearing separates. “What has happened to the skirt and top?” we hear you say. As it happens, we will be making the skirt our wardrobe staple this autumn and winter.

Leather hasn’t always been price-friendly or easy to pull off, but since its comeback in recent years, we are enjoying it as an integral wardrobe piece. So, for the autumn/winter 2014 leather trend, look beyond the biker jacket and consider leather skirts, trousers and dresses too.

Here are our fashion tips to help you hide your post-baby bump. Wrap around tops and dresses are ideal wardrobe staples for new mums. The soft fabric will work with your body shape, not against it, and flatter your curves.

Why, and when, did we choose blue for baby boys and pink for baby girls? According to an article in The Smithsonian, back in the 1800’s baby boys wore pink because it was considered a stronger shade and therefore more appropriate for them. The girls got blue because it was considered a more delicate, appropriate shade for them.

Shorts are great. They are practical, they won’t cause embarrassment when you bend down and they won’t restrict your movement or blow up in the wind like skirts can. They can have useful pockets too.

My name is Veronique Henderson (I was French a very long time ago!) and for the past 30 years I have had the best job ever as Creative Director of Colour Me Beautiful. Our head office is based in South London.

So there I was, a harried mother on the wrong side of 35, bouncing a teething baby on my lap while my three year-old ran riot through a friend’s flowerbeds with his pals. None of us Mums sitting round the patio table even batted an eyelid. I announced I’d bought some clothes online.

If you haven’t caught the Gatsby bug yet, you obviously haven’t seen the film’s previews. It is going to be a sartorial feast for the eyes.

Baroness Thatcher became Prime Minister just as Colour Me Beautiful was introduced and became the first image consultancy in the world. In 1985 she said “The essence of the well-dressed woman should never be exaggerated.

Frills, ruffles, call them what you will, are back. The Romantic personalities will be ‘frilled’ (sorry, we couldn’t resist). Frills don’t usually appeal to the Natural, Classic or City Chic personalities as they find them too fussy for their tastes.