Ace the School Reunion
Avoid Being Branded The Class Clown; Clothes That Work For Night, Day, Facebook, Too. School reunion time is here and it is all too easy to slip back into a high-school state of mind. The desire to impress mixed with feelings of insecurity can serve up a bad emotional cocktail. Like it or not, clothing is a visual gauge of who has soared and who has stumbled. Pulling together an outfit that sends the message you desire—cool confidence or affluence or even Look-At-Me-Now Revenge on The One Who Dumped You or The Mean Girls Who Made School a Daily Nightmare—has become more daunting. Many high school and college reunions now stretch from an evening of dinner and dancing into rigorously scheduled all-weekend affairs.
“There’s usually a Friday evening cocktail event, then a Saturday daytime something where you may bring your children, maybe to a park, a baseball field or a pool, then a Saturday evening gala and then a Sunday farewell brunch,” says Mary Fanizzi Krystoff, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based events producer who has put together school reunions for more than 20 years. The Web has increased the pressure to look amazing as photos inevitably will be shared on Facebook and Twitter, for posterity—and review.
If you’ve put on some pounds since school, “go for tonal combinations,” say a violet with a pale lavender, recommends New York-based fashion stylist Kendall Farr, author of the book “Style Evolution.” Just as important is the fit. “Your clothes should fit you well, skim your silhouette and be neither too loose or too tight,” she says. “A tailor is key.” To “create a trim look and lean lines,” try a blazer with a two-button silhouette, says consumer trend consultant and author Tom Julian of Tom Julian Group.
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At the class reunion, I swear by three things, the three S’s: Skinny, Sexy and Successful!