Characteristics of the Romantic Fashion Personality:
Romantic describes your style perfectly. Your look is feminine, and you prefer feminine details on clothing and soft, flowing fabrics. Ruffles, lace, and velvet attract you. You view the past as a more romantic time and can picture yourself as the heroine in a historical romance. The Victorian Era appeals to you as part of a romantic past when women always wore long skirts, hats, and gloves. You're likely to be a collector of beautiful objects, perhaps antique hatpins or china with floral motifs.
The Romantic Fashion Personality's Closet:
A peek in your closet reveals dresses and skirts that fall below the knee, sometimes far below the knee. Your sweaters also tend to be long too and may fall below the hip. You have more sweaters than jackets and may not own a suit. You prefer soft pastel colors and floral prints. You also like pants that are soft and drapey, rather than crisp and tailored.
Your jewelry may be antique or vintage, but if it isn't, it still reflects a vintage fashion sensibility. You're more likely than other fashion personality types to own and wear hats or gloves as fashion accessories.
The Romantic Fashion Personaltiy at Work and Play:
Your work attire may project less of a businesslike look than that of your colleagues. You are much more likely to wear a dress to work than a suit. When you wear a dress or a skirt, you prefer to pair it with a cardigan rather than a jacket.
On casual weekends, you sometimes look a bit out of place. You're less likely to wear jeans than other fashion personality types, preferring instead to wear long skirts or floppy pants.
Shopping and the Romantic Fashion Personality:
When you're shopping, you're most drawn to the items that reflect your romantic fashion personality without regard to whether or not the clothing is on trend. Although you are not usually able to find much clothing that appeals to you in the petites department at major department stores, you can find petites clothing that will fit your romantic style elsewhere.
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Tweaking the Style of the Romantic Fashion Personality:
Of all the fashion personality types, yours is the most feminine. Sometimes you look a bit outdated, and although there's nothing wrong with wearing frilly dresses once in a while, too many ruffles and frills can create a look that's more girlish than womanly.
Your love of the past can sometimes get in the way of the present, especially when it comes to dressing for work. Think about balancing your wardrobe with some up-to-date basics in neutral colors that you can mix with your more romantic and feminine pieces.
Special Note for the Petite Romantic Fashion Personality:
The length of your dresses, skirts, sweaters, and tops emphasizes your short stature, so consider hemming dresses and skirts at or just below the knee so that more leg shows, and you look a bit taller. Take care not to wear clothing that's too baggy because semi-fitted clothing will make you look longer and leaner.
Colleagues and supervisors may underestimate your abilities based on your wardrobe alone, so it might be worthwhile to invest in a couple of tailored jackets that you can wear to work to put a more businesslike spin on your very feminine look. Go easy on the ruffles, florals, and pastels at work.
