Your Personal Style is an image management guide that will help readers match their personalities to their outward expression of clothing. Unlike other image management books that begin by dictating general rules about body type and coloring, this book will use personality and lifestyle assessment as a point of departure for guiding readers towards establishing a style that is truly their own. The author uses an active learning approach that allows readers to learn first-hand what a fashion consultant does as well as gain an intimate knowledge of how the design and fashion merchandising industry best suits its client. Students in wardrobe planning courses will be able to obtain a basic understanding of their own fashion sense by following the guidelines outlined in this book. Fashion entrepreneurs can immediately apply this book s exercises to their own business. Image professionals constantly seeking to expand their knowledge in wardrobe planning can utilize their talents in conjunction any or all of the material found within these pages. Your Personal Style is packed with fashion tips and will serve as a handy reference guide for the student and professional alike.
Image Consultant, Nancy Plummer, brings over twenty years experience in the retailing
industry to each client. Her consulting firm, Fine Threads, Inc., has assisted individuals
express their personality through their clothing by offering one-on-one fashion analysis,
closet consultations, personal shopping, and additionally supports schools, corporations,
and non-profit organizations by offering corporate workshops and seminars in wardrobe
planning.
Nancy's passion is teaching and training others in the field of image. Her training courses range from core to choice. The class offerings are Intro to Image Consulting, Wardrobe Planning, Essential Business Skills, Color, Fabrics, Fashion Publicity, Fashion History, Fashion Communication, Grooming & Etiquette, and Organizing Your Closet.
Nancy is currently a member of the Adjunct Faculty in the Fashion Design Department at The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago, IL. Nancy also teaches image consulting classes at Loyola University Water Tower Campus, Chicago, IL. Image consulting is part of the Continuum continuing education program at Loyola.
Her first book, Your Personal Style, was released in March of 2009 and is available through Fairchild
Publications.
