If you love fashion and design, and are considering a career or further education in the field, you may want to take a closer look at fashion merchandising. Fashion merchandising combines various...

Your image in college may not have been that important to you, but as a college graduate you will soon have to put on a suit and begin interviewing for jobs. If you want to get hired in a traditional ...

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." So said Mark Twain, and that saying still rings true, as our society has developed into one that uses apparel as a way to...

Business Casualty: The dot-com revolution brought with it a new dress code as young millionaires with more money than style decreed suits were dead and ties were an abomination. It was the birth of...

The two main elements of the faux fur fabric are the fibers or fur and the backing to which the fur or fibers connect. It is the backing for the fake fur fabric, which gives the requisite shape and...

Image Consultant Sandy Dumont asks: Have you ever been treated with less respect than you feel you deserve? Have you ever been kept waiting unnecessarily?

Jeans have transcended boundaries of time, economies and fashion proclamation. They have reached iconic status in spite of existence of constant change in fashion forms. Denim is worshipped all...

As you make your way past your forties and into your fifties, you may feel the need to do a wardrobe overhaul. Clothing that would have looked great in your thirties no longer holds the same magical...

As an Image Consultant with over 30 years experience, I caution clients not to think of glasses as a functional item, but as a fashion accessory. If eyes are the windows to the soul, glasses are the...

There are some real treasures in the form of men's fashion accessories out there, silk ties, cufflinks, watches, belts, brooches and functional gadgets, etc, but you have to look hard and dig deep to ...