Signature Style Systems ~ Certified Personal Stylist, Image & Color Consultant, True Colour Expert

Do you get the urge to dress thematically for holidays and events?Today I’m talking about another wardrobe staple here in the great northwest: camouflage. Camo comes in all kinds of colors these days. Have you been considering having your colors done? Your signature style journey includes a complete education on how to use color to support your inherent coloring and your personality. Get started today by booking your Personality Profile and Palette. Let's connect! Take the style personality

Lines are the building blocks of visual art. You are a walking work of art. In this episode, I explore how you can use line direction to evoke a specific feeling, create a sense of movement or stability, and guide the viewers eye. Your look is an artistic composition; let’s talk about artistic principles! By the way, we explore all kinds of artistic principles you can apply to getting dressed when you take your style discovery journey with me. There’s always more! Find out more at my

What are your goals when you’re putting together an outfit? How do you want it to make you feel? I confess that when I started my blog, The Space Between My Peers, almost 20 years ago (in late 2005), my reason was mostly because I, as an extravert, had alot of words. And, sadly, not alot of people to share them with. Realistically, none of this would ever have come about if I had known and understood my Myers-Briggs type and how to set up my life ergonomically for the needs of my personality. So

Thousands of women around the globe are obsessed with finding their “Kibbe” type. About ten years ago, I went down the rabbit hole too and bought David Kibbe's Metamorphosis: Discover Your Image Identity and Dazzle As Only You Can. In this episode I rip a takeaway out of his system and relate it to how you can use separates strategically in your wardrobe.If you want to save yourself the HOURS women spend trying to decipher their Kibbe type, here’s an alternative: you can do as one of my very

As women navigate different stages of life, growing in self-knowledge should mean getting dressed becomes easier. Your wardrobe should increasingly reflect your signature style. Welcome to Episode 29 of Signature Style Systems.In this episode, I have tips on growing in style as we age, inspired by the life of Iris Apfel, whose style transcended fashion. On request of a podcast listener, and in consideration of the world losing the fabulous Iris Apfel recently, today I’m talking about aging

Today I’m talking about how the preference for thinking or feeling in your Myers-Briggs type can inform your wardrobe decisions.At the dichotomy level, the F or T in your four letter code stands for feeling or thinking. In truth, everyone feels and everyone thinks. The question is which criteria do you prioritize when making decisions? Personal criteria, that is, pertaining to people, or impersonal, that is, pertaining to data and metrics? If we go a level deeper to the cognitive functions, we

I often get asked how I got started in this line of work. Today I’m sharing the story of how I discovered there are actually principles of art and of science that you can use to guide your style decisions from a rational perspective. I’ll give you three things I got wrong in trying to DIY my style, and one surprising thing I got right. This episode is for those days when you wonder why everybody else looks normal in the clothes that are available in stores and feel like you are the only one who