Dressing Your Truth
We have found a new book that we think can be an excellent tool for finding what type of style you should be wearing.
Carol Tuttle, author of Dressing Your Truth
Carol Tuttle’s “Dressing Your Truth: Discover Your Personal Beauty Profile”
The book is based around her breakthrough Beauty Profiling™ system that identifies four main “Types” of women based on their physical features, personality and psychological profiles.
The profiling process helps awaken women to their “inner truth”, thus enabling them to express the true nature of who they are – bringing a deeper understanding of their true personal style and a more authentic sense of their own beauty.
The four Types are:
Type 1: The Bright, Animated Woman (think Ellen DeGeneres)
Type 2: The Subtle, Soft Woman (think Julia Roberts)
Type 3: The Rich, Dynamic Woman (think Michelle Obama)
Type 4: The Bold, Striking Woman (think Demi Moore)
Once you’ve identified your Type, you can take a series of online courses at DressingYourTruth.com to help you learn how to personalize your style to what truly suits you.
We found that this book to be very different from an ordinary fashion book, in that it is more focused on what your structural features say about you.
What a great tool for those who feel like you need to dress more authentically. We give it a thumbs up!!
On this topic, I can also highly recommend Alyce Parsons’ books on Universal Style. The most recent book is “StyleSource: The Power of the Seven Universal Styles
for Women and Men (2008).” It includes assessment tools so you can figure out your own style, as well as many illustrations of each style.
Hopefully, there’s room for each of us to express all of these different sides of our truth. Depending on the mood or situation, I can see myself embracing each of the styles at one time or another.
Hi Nancy,
After reading her book, I think she does have a point that once you find what style is mostly you, it really helps if you embrace it and try to keep it consistent when you are shopping. One thing I find challenging is keeping my look or style consistent when having to dress down. Also, one of the BIGGEST thing I feel women need to take in account when they pick a style is your hair style. If you have a short spikey style and dress in a “romanic” soft flowing way, you are sending mix messages. OR if you have a preppy hair style and try to dress in leather and or too romantic you just won’t feel right.
Julia Roberts always have that classice beauty that we admire.**: