THE BASIC WARDROBE

Professional Development and

Applied Ethics
 FASHION FINESSE
 CLOTHING – is for protection, comfort,
modesty and enhancement of your
beauty. To put on anything that is
inappropriate, gaudy, vulgar, or otherwise
offensive to others detracts from your
appearance.
 Some Guidelines to Avoid Expensive or Embarrassing
Mistakes while Developing your Personal Style:

 Appropriateness Above All

- the best rule is always to dress within the

bounds of classic good taste
- is determined by a number of factors,
and can change dramatically from situation to
situation
 Outside or indoors, mixed ages or
peers, geography, building, event, and
the weather can affect one’s mode of
dress.
 Fashion is Serious

What you wear reveals a significant message

about you and your world. Even if you don’t care
about clothes, they communicate much about
your attitudes toward the occasion, your
company, and yourself. In the morning, you
make a decision what to wear to which others
respond all day long. Think of your clothes as
the most communicative factor after your face
and eyes, personal style is how you send
nonverbal messages.
 One dresses out of consideration for others as
well as for one’s own self-image. No one wants
to fade into the woodwork, it is nice sometimes
to lead the pack, and quite naturally you want
your clothing to communicate the feeling that
you “belong.”

Your goal is a wardrobe of clothes that are right

for your body, your personality, your
environment, and the specific occasion.
 MAKING CHOICES
In 1970, young fashion was blue jeans
and a T-shirt. A generation later, the
young dressed up again. There are many
alternatives in fashion today.
Dress conservatively. Simplicity,
expressed in the highest quality fabric and
most intelligent design, has special
elegance.
 The most exciting thing about
fashion is the artistic expression it
permits. If you have a sense of
fashion’s past, you can indulge in
appropriate whimsy, mix and
match and feel comfortable and
at ease.
 What transforms a mere garment
into a work and makes the person
wearing it shine?
 TAKING STOCK
Ask yourself the following question:
 Has a body size, weight, height,
proportion changed?
 Has my lifestyle changed?
 Has my attitude changed?
 Have my friends, school, or workplace
changed?
 What amount of time do I have to devote
to the upkeep of my wardrobe?
 What are my monetary limitations?
 What impression do I want to make?
 Do I want to make any changes in my
current style?
 How can I empress my adaptation of the
season,s trends without sacrificing my
fashion statement?
 Is there a role, or roles, I would enjoy
acting out through dressing as I seek to
discover varied facets of my nature?
First
impression-
people’s instant
judgments

90% of first impression

is clothing

10% the first sentence

utter
 Factors concerning impression and
making decision:
1. Economic Level
2. Educational Level
3. Social Position
4. Level of
Sophistication
5. Family background
6. Successfulness
7. Moral Character
 ASSEMBLING A BASIC
WARDROBE
BASICS
-are the mainstays of your wardrobe,
the treasures upon which to sprinkle the
sugar and spice of the season’s trends.
STEP BY STEP ADVICE ON HOW
TO ASSEMBLE A BASIC
WARDROBE ON A LIMITED
BUDGET
1. Clean-up your
closet
2. Know your
figure
3. Shop wisely
 YOUR CLOSET
Your closet- as a resource for your lifestyle.
Your closet should be:
 setup exactly like s fine specialty shop.
 Scrupulously clean and free of junk.

Blouses, shirts, skirts or pants, sweaters,

dressed
- should be grouped together
COLORS
-should be
arranged to spark your
imagination.

SHOES
-should be stored
in marked boxes at eye
level for quick selection.

ROBES AND
EVENING CLOTHES
-should be hung so
that they do not touch
the floor.
 One section of the closet might be
double racked to hang pants, skirts,
blouses.

YOUR DRESSER DRAWERS

Should be:
-cleaned frequently and used with
scented paper if you choose and should
be partitioned to store panties, briefs,
bras, slips, socks, and hosiery,
LATTER
- are best
protected in ziplock
plastic bags.

BELTS
-can be hung on a
man’s tie rock inside
the closet door.
 YOUR SEARCH FOR STYLE
To achieve true style your clothing and
accessories must complement and
compliment your body and be
expression of your individuality.
STYLE - is timeless
-is lasting and durable
-is the best of all past fashions the features
that have proven to be the most flattering, the
most comfortable, and the most practical.
- unlike fashion you cannot buy style.
-you must cultivate your self through a
knowledge of what is really beautiful and lasting.
- is a priceless quality and one that
animates the lifeless garments you wear.
- must be natural rather that affected, and
it usually takes time to acquire.
FASHION – is changing,
current, even trendy.
-is fickle and
commercial
-with sufficient
money you can go out
and purchase a total
seasonal “look”
- it takes honesty
and discipline to evaluate
your self in relation to
trends.
DRESSING FOR THE OCCASION

Dressing for the occasion not only upgrades

manners, it also enhances the poise and
personality of the host.
Fashion, flair, and style must be develop
under the umbrella of good taste. In
dressing to prevent yourself properly to
others and to pass the test the first
impression try to:
Dress properly to befit the occasion
Interpret the season’s fashion base
upon the timeless qualities of past
traditions
In corporate individual flair and style
Keep keen sense of appropriateness
not only to the occasion but also to
your figure, lifestyle, and age.
 SHOPPING RULES
 Go shopping alone or with
a single friend whose
taste you trust.
 Be sure that you are
attractively dressed and
groomed.
 Find a salesperson and tell
him what youn are looking
for.
 Be sure that you return
garments to hangers.
 Do not choose costly
blouse/skirt or skirt/pants.
 Choose what you feel has
the staying power.
 Never pick a trend if you
feel could wear it for a few
months only.
 Select the best quality you
can afford.
 Do not over look
underclothing.
Remember:
-you will soon try to splashy especially if
everyone is wearing it, and you will begin
to feel that you have lost your identity and
taken a step backward fron a style of your
own.
-establishing a personal style is your
goal.
-to discuss the price of anything is
never in good taste.
 SHOPPING TRAPS TO AVOID
1. Think twice before shopping with a
friend. A friend is a distraction and may
keep you focusing on what you came
for.
2. A friend’s taste and aims may be diferent
from yours.
3. A friend may choose clothes which
he/she would choose for himself/herself,
but not appropriate for you
4. Avoid shopping out of loneliness. Bake a
cake or take some sport instead.
Shopping for the wrong reasons brings
out wrong results.
5. Don’t shop for bargains. Don’t judge a
merchandise by its price tag.