Instant-Chic Style Tips

Day 11, Tip 11 for my Glamour Makeover: Know these instant-chic tricks.

We’ve talked about how it’s the details that matter when it comes to putting together an outfit. We’ve discussed how it’s just as easy to put on cut flats as it is to put on your slippers. We’ve noted that adding fashionable accessories to our outfit “makes” the outfit. We’ve even noted that you can throw on something sloppy or something fitted in the same amount of time and it makes a world of difference in how you look and feel.

Here are some really fantastic chic-tricks put together by the Glamour fashion department that you should copy and post in your closet to help guide you in putting together your outfit each day.

1. Pair up dark colors that aren’t matchy-matchy, like navy and dark purple, deep green and chocolate brown. (Trés French!)

2. Cool up a classic (tailored blazer, plain skirt, trousers) with a subversive top-a bright, fitted cotton polo; a turtleneck with extra-long sleeves; your loudest souvenir tee.

3. To look glam and make your legs seem longer: Wear black opaque tights with dark shoes or boots one day. Another day, try the pale counterpart-hosiery with shoes or boots, both matching your skin tone.

4. Switch the matching belt that came with your wrap or shirtdress to one that’s more individual and distinctive. Think a rich color, a cowboy buckle or a wide satin ribbon bow-tied at the side…

5. …or just belt something you usually wouldn’t, like your overcoat or a chunky sweater. Sexy!

6. Try anything you usually wear with heels with flats, and vice versa, to create umpteen new looks.

7. Make that floaty dress you loved in the warm weather a year-rounder by layering a lightweight T-shirt underneath and adding a belt and dark opaque tights. Pull on knee boots and you’re sporting a relaxed summer attitude even when it’s 15 degrees outside.

8. Pile, stack, overdo jewelry on a single zone-neck, wrists or arms-to transform a simple sheath or jeans and white tee into a so-you outfit.

9. Wind two print silk scarves together to get a new, lushly wrapped look; don’t worry about whether they match. Wear them around your neck or belted through your jeans.

10. Make your beloved-but-dated bootleg jeans hot again by chopping them midcalf and wearing them tucked into tall boots.

11. Sweep your hair into a twist when you’re not dressed up and you’ll look like one of those sexy women in Italy whose style secrets always seem unfathomable.

12. Slip on ballet flats in lieu of those sneakers you throw on for errands. Zero percent additional effort, 100 percent more style.

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