I am wishing good health and wellness to you, your families and friends.
These are difficult times, and due to recent developments, my travel schedule is currently on hold. Information and developments concerning the virus affecting the globe are ever changing. Therefore, I ask for your patience in the rescheduling of visits to the cities of Boston, New York and Washington, DC. Please note that pending restrictions, Cleveland has been rescheduled for June 20th-21st. As soon as more information is available we will provide updates along with when work in Los Angeles will continue, along with details on a return trip to Europe this November.
Please know that I am thinking of you, and want to share that we will see the other side of this.
For additional information, please contact Alex at alex@davidzyla.com.
Photo by Cathryn Farnsworth
In these trying times, consider a diversion, and enjoy some of my favorite online interviews featured on NAC Chat, produced by The National Arts Club. In this series I interview designers, authors, illustrators and tastemakers in the areas of fashion and costume. Featured in this group of interviews are illustrator Richard Haines, costume designer Lisa Padovani, fashion designer and author Jeffrey Banks, author and historian Claire Wilkinson, author Nichelle Gainer, fashion designer and author Alan Flusser, fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez, author Tanisha C. Ford, and authors Rose Callahan and Natty Adams.
If you love the power and beauty of color as I do, follow me on Facebook @davidzylastyle for daily Color Cues, featuring a color of the day featured in glorious fashion paired with a mini history lesson on the hue’s origin.
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As you shop for your spring wardrobe, it is quite possible that you may find some perfect styles that do not be fit precisely to your body. To help you decide whether to purchase or pass, here are some tips from How to Win at Shopping on what a tailor can do to help.
A tailor can:
-Add top stitching back to the hem of your jeans after shortening.
-Maximize the amount of length in a pair of pants by dropping the hem to the longest possible length and finishing the inside with hem tape.
-Stitch down and remove the front pockets of your pants to create a smoother, slimmer effect.
-Shorten straps so that a dress or top raises to fit through the torso and has properly placed bust darts and underarms.
-Shorten sleeves. If your coat sleeve is past the knuckle or your blazer sleeve is past the wrist, they can be adjusted.
-Line a sheer garment with your shade of nude (the color most complementary to your skin tone) to enable you to wear regular undergarments under it.
Follow me on Pinterest for inspirational pins of Romantic Colors, as well as examples of the twenty-four archetypes featured in my book Color Your Style, featuring The Sensuous Backpacker, The Life of the Party and many more!
