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.

Your signature style. So how would you describe your look? Is your image consistent or are you eclectic? Do you favour the same silhouette or are you happy in fitted one day and oversized the next? Are your clothes in a blended colour palette, or is your wardrobe a riot of colour? Your style can encompass many trends ,but it will still tell the world something about you as an individual.

Most people, especially women, wear multiple ‘hats’ and have numerous commitments that affect their daily or weekly lives and plans. I remember coming to the realisation that I actually had little say over how I lived my life, and it came as quite a shock.

How to rediscover your pzazz in midlife. Times they have changed. Being mid-life means very different things now than it ever has done in the past. It begs the question; is how you feel about your age a state of mind or just a number?

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!