Style personality is the key to freedom
In the ‘olden days’ we used to work with just 4 style personalities – Classic, Natural, Dramatic and Romantic. Since the early Eighties these numbers and types have expanded, contracted, split into two, expanded some more – but that story is for another time or I’ll be here all day (again!).
Now I work with 6 style personalities – Classic, Natural, Dramatic, Romantic, Creative and European. These are just my titles for them and you can call them whatever you want, of course. But whatever you call them, style personality provides the key to each individual lady and that’s the bit I love the most.
I just love showing ladies who they really are deep down, how to be true to their innate character and how to come out from behind the armour they’ve been wearing for most of their lives! As Jacques describes in ‘As You Like It’:
- All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
Without a doubt, we all have to play many parts during our lives and I don’t think Shakespeare is far wrong with his 7 stages – infant, child, lover, warrior, statesman and sage before the final descent into complete senility (!) – but it’s how we deal with the different hats that we have to wear that either gives us the freedom to be who we really are or to spend the rest of our lives being something we’re not just to live up to the expectations of other people.
I choose freedom
Finally understanding my own style personality was the big hallelujah moment for me.
I realised that I was never going to be the elegant lady that my father wanted me to be so I should ruddy well stop trying ever so hard to be ladylike because I am not my Mum!
I also realised when my best friend used to suggest, “Shall we go for a walk?” when she really meant that she was considering a full-scale assualt of the Matterhorn, that I hated the very idea of being exposed to the elements AND having to dress down in baggy shorts and hobnailed walking boots and that I should stop trying to pretend that anything more than a gentle walk round a garden centre in glamorous heels makes me feel more than faint!
And do you know something amazing?
Since I stopped trying to be what I’m not, both my father and my best friend still love me – just as I am!
Now I show others how to choose freedom for themselves. And I absolutely love it.
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