Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished.

Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style.

Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Style is all about your individual sense of how you want to present yourself to the world. It's about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not.

Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.