Okay so roll forward ten years after Celine and her jacket and ask yourself what stylish accessory will turn your ordinary Christmas dress into something extraordinary? And for the record, a jacket is not an accessory.
Hats are an accessory, though! Fedora's, berets, cloches take guts to pull off and create a dramatic effect paired with a fitted vest and tailored pants with a full leg. It's easy to put a fedora on with a 3 piece suit and red lips for a festive look after 5pm. Hats work into everyone's budget and distinguish your look regardless of age. Hats also work to solve your hair problems.
Fabrics, although not normally an accessory can be used to the same affect during the holiday season with cashmere, faux fur, and silky satin and black lace their annual and unexpected appearance in wardrobes of women who otherwise seem quite conservative. Your boss for example, or the company accountant.
Sunglasses denote a sexy mystery but the problem with relying on them for dramatic effect over the holiday season is most parties are at night. Wearing sunglasses on your head at night is a fashion disaster, avoid doing it. If you are coming home at 6am and the sun is rising you are welcome to put them on. Otherwise you run the risk of generating gossip about whey you are wearing sunglasses at night and it won't be good for your reputation at the company party.
Okay back to Celine and her backwards jacket; her intentions were good, she wanted to make a grand exit with a sexy surprise - ta dah "my back is showing". Make your life easy and buy a backless dress, or one that lace up in the back. It's a sexy stylish visual surprise for the room you are leaving, providing you are wearing proper undergarments - take the dress to a lingerie department in advance.
Gloves govern style period. They can be long, short, slouchy, tight, suede, leather, and colours, studded and protect your hands from the elements with so much personality. Buy them, use them.
Signature Jewellery, the traditional stand by's work during the holidays. The are real or fake diamond earrings, gold hoops, long earrings - long and dangling or chandelier depending on your face, bangles or cuff's to wear with shoulder baring halter. Pearls and diamonds only work after a certain age; trendy signature necklace's or pendants work for everyone else.
Perfume, if you want to stay in someone's memory, for better or worse choose a signature one. It is said, over and over again, that men love the smell of vanilla and cinnamon because it reminds them or their mothers baking. At fragrance counters perfume is sold on that pitch alone. If a man likes you because you smell like his mom, it's a bit worrying isn't it? Either way pick something that you like and hopefully you will attract people who like and remember you by it.
Most of us want to be memorable, darling don't we?
