Category Archives: Style

Spring Summer 2013 Fashion Trends

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Here it is just January and I came home to yet another Sears spring catalogue on my porch.  That was just after seeing spring fashions while Christmas shopping. Truthfully, I don’t want to think about next season’s fashions, I want to stay focused on my perfectly fitting navy winter coat, grey leather Blondo boots and…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

Your Perfect Fitting Bra is Just a Stitch (or two) Away

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We all know (or need to know) that in order for an outfit to fit properly and look perfect, we need perfect fitting under garments.  We also know that finding those perfectly fitting undergarments is tough if not impossible. So we compromise. But we don’t have to … I discovered our very own Corsetière in Durham Region, Leah Hoogkamp of Pretty Underneath….

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

Create 4 Very Affordable Holiday Looks with a Few Simple Key Pieces

Holiday Evening Basic Outfit Pieces

The Christmas season and another New Year are upon us.  If you’re attending a lot of parties over the next few weeks, you’ll probably want several different looks so you don’t show up looking like a “fashion repeat” at each event. But what do you do if one party is more formal than another, or if the same people will be showing up at each…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

Are you styled just from the neck up?

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 I see it all the time – women who have a strict routine when it comes to going to their hair stylist every 6 weeks or so to have their hair cut and highlighted or dyed to cover their roots, yet they would never give a personal stylist a second thought. Did you know it…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

Fall 2012 Fashion Trends

fall 2012 trends

Reprinted from Style for Hire, Stacy London’s company: Trend: Folkloric – gypsy chic goes high-end with lux fabrics and textures – velvet – brocades – fur – denim on denim – mixing prints (florals and organic prints) – embroidery – deep forests, plums, mustards, burgundies – layers   Trend: Primary Pieces – Mod inspired with…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

Paris, here I come!

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I can’t wait to arrive in Paris exactly one month from today! Site seeing, wonderful food, romantic cafe’s and of course, shopping. This time in Europe, I plan to study how French women behave and dress, not just look at them in admiration. Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl, does…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

What’s the point of hiring a personal stylist?

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Have you been considering hiring a personal stylist thinking that nahhh, you can’t really justify one? Yet women do hire us – A LOT! Experience as a personal stylist has shown me that women just like you are motivated to work on their style for one of three key reasons:   1.  Going through a…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

Are you a fashion copycat or do you have your own style?

Iris Apfel Fashion Icon & Interior Decorator

While shopping on Oxford Street in London last summer, I noticed that just about every woman under the age of 30 was dressed the same – long hair, short pants, boots and scarf.  Nobody stood out.  Everyone was simply wearing what was considered to be “in fashion” so that they could be fashionable.  Fashion is…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

Casual to Evening Casual

It’s easy to go from casual to evening casual. There’s nothing more casual than a pair of jeans and a t-shirt but you can easily dress that basic look up just by adding your evening tops, shoes, purses, jewellery and more. Tops Wear tops that sparkle or shine. They add instant glamour to your outfit….

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.

7 Tips to Dress UP ↑ to Attract Your Right Clients

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Professional Appearance is a Choice Even if you aren’t a ”suit person”, there are times, like when doing business (including networking and meeting a client for coffee),  you need to dress up to attract clients.  This choice is available to everyone regardless of what mother  nature gave you.  If you think about it, you have two choices, dress…

About Janice Johnson

Janice Johnson is a passionate, results driven Personal Stylist & Image Consultant who helps women who are eager to solve their style and wardrobe concerns. Trained in New York by Stacy London of What Not To Wear€, Janice'€™s straightforward approach is fun, easy to understand and gets results FAST. After just one session, any woman can achieve her style or wardrobe goal whether its to put outfits together effortlessly, find perfectly fitting clothes or choose clothes suited to her body, personality and budget.