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Amy Salinger explains some basic fashion tips: the wrap dresses
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Amy Salinger: Hello and welcome to this edition of Sass N Style with your wonderful amazing fantastic host, me, Amy Salinger. We are going to be talking about this time around a style that was worked on women for decades now. Pretty much it was started up in the 1970s with the designer called Diane Von Furstenberg and it is this, the lovely wrap dress. Today, we are lucky enough to have be in one of my good friend's fashion studios. Her name is Kathlin Argiro and she often designs wrap dresses. I would like to say a little bit better than DVF. Remember this ladies, the only type of women that this really doesn't work on I would say is if you are thick, through the middle or if have very broad shoulders. You also ought to be careful if you have a large bust. I was not less in that department. So I am okay with this, but if you do have a little bit of larger bust, just throw on a pretty little camisole underneath, maybe with a little bit of lace in the middle and you can mask the idea that you are busting out, make sure the girls are in place. But other than that I am going to show you all different body types that this wonderful amazing dress can work on right now. So first we have my equally talented definitely more beautiful friend Courtney Zellmer who is actually the co-designer here at the Kathlin Argiro. Courtney clearly is my extremely tall, a 5'10 friend. So as you can see somewhat a little more athletic and petite such as myself, can pull off this look, but Courtney as well who has a completely different body type than me is pulling off the same look. Lucky for Courtney she has perfect size breast, which then, I know she didn't know that I thought that and now she does. She doesn't need the camisole. She literally is just at the stage of the in-between and she has a beautiful décolletage, which in case you don't know that, this is the décolletage, a little fashion lesson there for you. She is showing it up beautifully. Those that know her know that's her style. What I am going to tell you on Courtney besides the fact that this dress does fit someone of her stature and curve very, very well. It has properly tied her up. Here we go, very simple lesson and we are going to undress Courtney as much as we can without revealing too much of Courtney. So basically as you can see we have, I am just going to open a little, so we have pulled the dress one side through the other side. We have a hole here that's gone through,now if you can turn for me Courtney, we are going to wrap the dress around Courtney's back, crisscross it. The key is to keep these flaps, the straps as flat as you possibly can. We want to smooth you out through the middle, not cutting to any, well it just be straightforward fat one might have on their stomach. Pull it around the front, keep it flat and keep it at the same height as where the hole is cut through, so it's all on one line across your waist. I want to tie off to the side. Tie it as tighter you without cutting into your skin and then we are going to continue to flatten it out, just make a little bit like anything else. Thank you. We are going to pull it up on the side as you can see it to match that right there, so it's one down straight across, flatten out the straps and as you can see we have beautiful tied wrap dress. Thank you my love. Courtney Zellmer: You're welcome. Amy Salinger: And next up, we have Tracy who unbeknown to her had no idea she was going to be on this lovely episode, but I like to drag people, especially if they are cute. Basically, I wanted to show you how we have completely different than Courtney a lovely petite young thing. How tall are you? Tracy: 5 foot. Amy Salinger: 5 foot. I don't think we can get much more petite than that. As you can see though, again the wrap dress looks fantastic on her. First up you should know she is wearing flip-flop, perfectly acceptable. You do not need to just dress it up. This particular wrap dress is actually made out of a much more comfortable t-shirt style, so it can be worn a little bit more in comfortable zone. So one thing I am going to show you, especially on petite people and I am going to get down to the hemline here. The hemline on this particular dress is a little bit long. We want it just below the knee or just in the middle on someone as petite as Tracy. Reason being a longer hemline tends to make people look a bit shorter and we want to make sure we can see Tracy the dress isn't wearing her, she is wearing the dress. And of course with a little flip-flop she is keeping it casual. Love that she tied it in a bow instead of a knot and she is making it -- Thanks Tracy. Tracy: Thank you! Amy Salinger: Lastly, we have Cathlene who has worked at Kathlin Argiro for a little while now. She is always happy when I walk in the door, aren't you Cathlene? That was like a load of crap, but I am going to choose to believe her. Today, we are going to look Cathlene because not she is incredibly beautiful but I would like to get her dress model. Also, she is 5'2, so she is also petite, but she is wearing a different style today. Just like me she has short sleeves on and if you can turn to show. It's what we like to call a flutter sleeve, because it flutters when you walk in the wind. Cathlene I am going to tell is so much thinner, tied in and what we have been seeing on Tracy and Courtney and to show you a different way to wear it, I am here. As you can see it doesn't have the beautiful long hanging ribbon that I have over here. So I am going to cover up with this a little tiny bit. Now we are going to this metallic belt and use my metallics instead of browns and blacks. It's a good way to give your outlook a pop and it's very neutral. We are wrap around the end of, tie the remaining part that's falling off. We are going to put it directly over the tie literally. You cannot see where the wrap is. So as far as I am concerned and as far as the rest of the world is concerned, it is no longer a wrap dress, Thank you Cathlene. Cathlene: No problem.
