"A
man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who
has a bad one."
--Samuel Johnson,
1763
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Kenneth R. Grossman
Master Custom Clothier
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CLOSET ORGANIZATION
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The 80/20
Rule is alive and well in most people's closets. According to organizational
expert Peter Walsh, we wear 20 percent of our clothes 80 percent of the time.
Further, we often tend to buy the same things over and over again.
It's perfectly fine to lock into our fashion favorites and keep those items
well stocked in our wardrobes. Walsh suggests hanging similar items together so
you know exactly what you have on hand in your working wardrobe.
It's a good thing to periodically sort through your clothes and separate them
into "keep" and "donate" piles. If you haven't worn an item
in the last 6-12 months, the likelihood is that you never will.
After purging the closet, which often results in a closet that feels more
spacious and uncluttered, try ridding the closet of wire hangers and upgrading
to nicer wooden hangers, all of which match for an organized, coordinating
look.
Now, start out with all the hangers hung in the reverse direction. Test the
80/20 Rule yourself. Since you wear 20 percent of your clothes 80 percent of
the time, for the next six months, whenever you wear an article of clothing and
hang it back in the closet, hang it the correct way. After six months, if you
have items that are still hanging backwards in your closet, ask yourself,
"Am I ever going to wear it again?"
If it can be altered or repaired, have it done. If not, donate it and replace
it with more functional pieces in your working wardrobe.
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MODERN REFRESHER COURSE
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 Five Modern Ways to Wear a Suit
While a custom tailored suit occupies a very serious position in most wardrobes, knowing the possibilities of a variety of ways to wear a new suit can make it more than just a suit; you can re-create the whole image. The key to repackaging the image is to just relax the image of a suit and to create a comfortable unconstrained feeling. Here are our suggestions for Five Modern Ways to Wear a Suit:
- Dress that suit up with a with a white or blue solid french cuff custom dress shirt coordinated with a conservative tie for business meetings during the day.
- When you are ready to get a little edgier pair your suit with a bold stripe custom shirt bright tie and coordinating pocket square.
- On Fridays or for casual evening wear take off your tie, unbutton the top button of your dress shirt, and wear it with an open collar. It's the comfortable look you see on movie stars and in the magazines.
- Switch up the shirts to a luxurious black cashmere, silk, or high-end wool or cotton knit shirt for a night at the Kentucky Center for the Arts and dinner at Proof.
- Go fancy with the footwear. You'll see it on the late-night talk shows. Super stylish shoes, exotics and more fashion forward looks make a bold style statement.
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How to prevent credit card fraud
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| It happens all too often that a client will tell me they need to give me a new credit card because they were a victim of credit card fraud. It can wreak havoc with your credit rating and cause hours of frustration. Here is some great advice on prevention of credit card fraud and what to do if it happens to you:
1. Don't sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put "photo ID Required".
2. When you are writing checks to pay your credit card accounts, do not put the complete account # on the "for" line. Instead just put the last four digits.
3. Put your work # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box use that instead of your home address. Never have your SS# printed on your checks.
4. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel.
5. If your cards are stolen immediately call your credit card companies to cancel them, file a police report in the jurisdiction where the cards were stolen, call the 3 national credit reporting agencies to place a fraud alert on your name, and call the Social Security fraud line. Here are the phone #'s:
Equifax 800-525-6285
Experian 888-397-3742
Trans Union 800-680-7289
Social Security Administration 800-269-0271 | |
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