Hello,

Welcome to ‘Here’s the Thing’. Musings and observations about clothes from an award winning professional image coach with 20 years experience.

During that time, I have coached, trained, consulted, lectured, assessed, analysed, styled and worked closely with clients and students all over the world. I am more aware than most of the ‘rules’ pertaining to what we should and shouldn’t wear. But ‘Here’s the Thing’ - I have constantly questioned them.

Clothing is, and as always been, a visual language helping us to communicate what we want others to know about us. To do this, many of us choose clothes that enable us to look the part - professional, sexy, chic, trustworthy, creative. What we might want to do instead is to select the outfits that make us feel good. After all, we can’t look good if we don’t feel comfortable. I am known within my industry for pushing traditional boundaries to explore what really makes us feel ‘at home’ in our clothes, connecting heart, mind and intuition so facts and lifestyle are intertwined with emotional content. My mantras are ‘Life evolves, style evolves’ and ‘One size does not fit all’.

This newsletter is not a styling guide - there are plenty of brilliant ones on this platform you can choose to read. This is a newsletter that notes my observations and thoughts about clothes past, present and future. It combines my knowledge of the image and styling industry with my passion for art and fashion history.

I hope it provides food for thought. You never know - it might also change the way you dress!