MEAGHAN SMITH PERSONAL STYLIST

Like everything you wear, your jewellery should feel authentic to you and your personal style.

Choose it thoughtfully, in a way that reflects your individuality. The most meaningful pieces are often those with a story — earrings found on a holiday in Italy, your Nan’s pearls, or your Dad’s watch.

This is Costanza Pascolato. Among her jewellery, you’ll almost always find a silver skull ring — a distinctive piece that has become her signature.

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MASCULINE/FEMININE STYLE

MASCULINE
Somewhat tailored beige chino pants worn in a relaxed, slightly oversized way.
Solid leather belt with a large buckle.

FEMININE
Soft fluid blouse with a pretty intricate detail.
Delicate jewellery.
Exposing a little bit of skin around the neck, chest, and on the foot.
Subtly creating shape at the waist by tucking in.
Painted toenails.

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Bookending, in styling, is where you use a color (or metallic) on the top and bottom of the outfit to create symmetry.

As you can see in the photo above, it’s a white top and white shoes.

In this pic (above), you can see it’s different. (Still good, just different.)

The trick is not to make it look too predictable or matchy-matchy (i.e., a hot pink hat and hot pink shoes with all black in between)—but to subtly and cleverly balance the top of the outfit with the bottom and essentially pull the look together.

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This is a pretty simple outfit, but you can still tell that it’s been well thought out and intentional.

Here’s what I notice…

Essentially, it’s made up of three fairly basic pieces: a white t-shirt, a black knit t-shirt, and casual chino-style pants.

There are three colors in the outfit.

The outfit has been bookended with black glasses and black shoes.

The strappy heels with the style of pants are a somewhat unexpected pairing. (I like that the choice of shoe is showing plenty of skin on the foot.)

The gold jewellery adds shine to the look. (It could otherwise be quite flat without it.)

And the thing that initially caught my eye, and something for us to try, is that she’s layered a white t-shirt under the knit so that it perfectly pokes out from the sleeves and at the neck.

By doing this, it’s adding depth to the outfit, a little bit of light to the face, as well as changing the shape and style of the original knit, and giving it a new look. Also, by altering the sleeves, by giving it more width at the hem, it’s slightly affecting the balance of the look.

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