The dilemma. In our 21st century society, dressed up seems to have been largely overtaken by dressed down. Look in any bar, restaurant, café or workplace and people are wearing casual clothes, and shoes, and may or not seem to be bothered about their appearance.

Smart casual is a dress code that seems to cause my clients a headache whenever it appears on an invitation, or as a stipulation in the workplace.

The dilemma. In the 21st century, there is an increasing awareness that we all need to be living our lives in a sustainable way. This is being touted as a new idea that will revolutionise our impact on the planet and create a better environment. While many of the new ideas are ground-breaking, or bizarre, or difficult, or no-brainers, we can often feel that anything we do towards the greater good will be at best piecemeal and at worst, irrelevant.

Most of us will have many different aspects to our lives, where we play different roles and need to portray many aspects of ourselves. Sometimes these roles are happening all at the same time, and sometimes these different iterations of your persona will have occurred over several years, or what might seem like several lifetimes!

Why are you wearing what you are today? How were you feeling when you got dressed? Did you make a conscious decision or just grabbed the first thing? Let’s find out your motivation so you can make great decisions going forward.

As time passes, it is very easy to get carried along with the day-to-day patterns and complexities of your life and suddenly find yourself 5 or 10 years older. How on earth did that happen? While this is progression is obviously very natural and happens to us all, sometimes the passage of time means that your circumstances have changed, but your self-image and your wardrobe havn’t kept pace.