Fashion chef

I heard some great advice a few weeks ago that has really stuck with me. A stylist on the Rachael Ray show suggested that, when getting dressed, to approach your closet like a chef approaches a kitchen. Don't just throw whatever you have together. Go in with an idea, a "recipe", and put the recipe together using the "ingredients" (clothes) you have. Then spice it up to suit your taste.

That's pretty easy, right? The hard part is finding a few really good "recipes" that work on your own body and that you like. But once I started looking at outfits in this frame, I kind of got the hang of it.

Starting with The Basics (capital B), I love the look of dark pants, striped shirt and solid scarf seen here on Kendi:

And again on Jessica:

 

This is an easy look to recreate and looks super polished. Plus, I can mix it up with a trench, heels, jewelry, whatever I feel like. It's going in the recipe book!

Now moving on to something a bit more complicated: Blazer, blouse, jeans, statement accessory, booties.  Again, still not rocket science, but it looks good on Miss Melissa here and I think it would be pretty easy to recreate:

 

I'm going to keep my eyes open for more recipes to recreate.