How to Put Together an Amazing Outfit

Closet & Wardrobe
Posted by Carol Tuttle on 29, February 2012 with 1 Comment

Ever looked at your closet and wished an amazing ensemble would appear?

It can! My 4 Types Beauty Panel joins me with great tips to help you know how to put an outfit together, easy.

Their outfit tips are specific to the 4 Types in my Beauty Profiling system. Even if you don’t know your Type, their great tips will help you put together outfits that make you look amazing!

We’d love to hear how you play with YOUR wardrobe. Leave a comment and tell us the trick that helps you build a great outfit.

Outfit Tips for Every Type

  • Bright, Animated Type 1

Putting together an outfit might not look like a process for you—not a structured one anyway. That’s great! Embrace your random, spontaneous nature and put on whatever feels fresh. Once you’re dressed, stop long enough to check in that you’re wearing something that feels fun to you.

Pay attention to what Marcy says in the video about her biggest reward with mixing color.

  • Subtle, Soft Type 2

Your attention to detail is a strength, but don’t let details overwhelm you. Start with a particular item. Then assembe details around it. You might be more willing to try something new if you remind yourself that you don’t have to repeat anything you don’t like.

Watch the video to see how Anne paired two colors she normally wouldn’t. She looks great!

  • Rich, Dynamic Type 3

Like a Type 2, you might choose an item you want to wear and build an outfit around it. But you’ll be swift about it. Make sure your closet’s set up for quick, practical results. If your priority item for the day isn’t working, scrap it and go with an outfit you know will work.

In the video, Sarah talks about items she likes to start with, and I explain my funny approach to clothes I haven’t worn recently.

  • Bold, Striking Type 4

When you’re Dressing Your Truth, you have a high standard for what you keep in your closet and put on your body. That’s great! Don’t add anything to an outfit that doesn’t meet your standard. If you don’t like something—even if it worked for you in the past—don’t feel obligated to hold onto it.

I wonder how many Type 4′s share Sheryl’s experience with bold color.

Feel like you understand a little more about how to put outfits together? Watch the video to learn more tips and hear the outfit inspiration I get some mornings before I ever look in my closet!

Three more great outfit tips for all Types

  • When you think about outfit ideas, remember to also think about movement.

The list of your Beauty Profile keywords in my book describes your movement—including the way you put together an outfit! Read the list again with this in mind and embrace your unique process.

  • Create a style library.

It doesn’t have to be professional or high-tech. Just take a picture of today’s outfit with the camera on your phone. Putting together an outfit with what you have becomes that much easier when you have an archive of cute outfit ideas you already came up with!

  • Try new things and listen to YOUR style. You have a beauty sixth sense: use it.

Dressing Your Truth is a makeover system that turns all these outfit tips into a simple process.

All the clothes in your closet look amazing together—and, most important, they look amazing on you! Our easy-to-use online training program teaches you how to put together outfits, using 5 key elements customized to the movement of your facial features, body language, and even personality.

Put together great outfits—and look amazing every day! Take the first step by taking my 3-Minute Beauty Confidence Quiz. And if you’ve taken the quiz already, right now’s a good time to…

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Carol Tuttle
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Carol Tuttle, best-selling author of four books, created Beauty Profiling and Dressing Your Truth to fill a need for women everywhere who don't know how beautiful they are. Her revolutionary makeover program has transformed the look—and lives!—of women all over the world. She wants to help you learn the truth about your beauty so that you can live it, dress it, and love it!
  • Julie Thorup

    That’s so fun! You know, I just realized that even before I knew my type, I was expressing myself through my socks! 
    I’ve always loved fun, bright, even silly socks that have animated patterns or pictures on them. 
    It’s sort of funny to think about it now because in my clothes I mostly wore a lot of the type two muted colors, (That’s my secondary) especially shades of muted purple and blue and yet I would acquire these socks and sometimes my method of getting dressed has been to choose my socks first and then build an outfit around that. Which could be quite a challenge in the past considering how colorful all my fun socks were, and how limited my wardrobe pallet was. Even back then, I did have a few type one tops that always ended up being my favorites, and I did also have some more plain muted colored socks too, but after finding out my type, I got rid of all my boring clothes and even my boring socks and now I have all kinds of fun creating outfits! 
    I love the whole color block trend that has been seen a lot within the past few years because it’s allowed me to change it up almost constantly. I also will change up my outfit building method randomly. I might even choose a certain top because of the bra I want to wear that day (yes, I also have some bright colorful bras! Lol!) Or it might be that I want to wear certain shoes or a certain accessory, but it changes all the time. This is so fun to think about how each person does it their own way. I’ve thought about how I do it before but I never thought about how other people might be choosing their clothes.