Staffordshire Purple

6 Mar, 2005 in art pottery by admin

Staffordshire Purple

The Race for the White House With Colourful Potential First Ladies

Now that the race for the Presidency has been won and Mr. Obama is President-Elect, who got your vote in the other ‘election’? The two potential first ladies in the USA have been demonstrating their own votes – for the type of clothes, colours and styles that they have been wearing.

Michelle Obama dresses in an elegantly soft and approachable manner with an added smidgeon of drama and creativity. She displays a sassy approach by contrasting strong bright colours with black cardigans and chocolate coloured belts.

Cindy McCain dresses in a classical and timeless style with her conventionally matching jackets and skirts and strings of pearls.

What comes across is how both women demonstrate how confident they are in what they are wearing and that they demonstrate that through the colours and styles they wear. In other words they don’t appear to be stylised (even if they are!).

Michelle has been wearing a variety of outfits and the one worth focusing on was a gorgeous purple A-line dress which flattered her body shape perfectly. She topped it off with a little black cardigan and black patent low heeled shoes. This dress is perfectly ‘on trend’ in terms of colour and in terms of how Michelle was wearing it. She gave it a slightly classical twist by wearing a string of pearls. What Michelle was demonstrating was an outfit which was both up to the minute and traditional. She also went for comfort with the type of shoes she chose to wear. Michelle has lots of options for the future with that gorgeous purple dress. She could make it more dramatic if she puts it with a deep red cardigan or jacket or she could go deeper with a burgundy or navy cardigan instead.

Cindy has worn some classic suits, one of which was in a soft heathery colour in a tweed style fabric. It looked both comfortably warm and chic which she teamed up with opaque tights/stockings, black courts and a black jumper. She was wearing a limited amount of black because black doesn’t suit someone with fair colouring. In fact she might even consider putting that suit with an icy pink or lilac top as that would have brought out the colour of her eyes more. This makes the outfit look different and enables her to retain her classic style personality.

Both ladies are style icons for their generation and are great role models for ladies everywhere looking for some inspiration in their clothes.

Ann Skidmore is a Corporate Image Consultant with Colour Me Beautiful, and is based in Staffordshire (UK).

www.annskidmorecmb.co.uk

About the Author

Ann Skidmore is an international award winning corporate
image consultant with over 10 years of leadership and managerial experience in a
wide variety of industries from BAA to the NHS. Ann has coached, trained and
developed over 10,000 people in the last 10 years that she has been directing
her own business in leadership and image.
Ann has a degree in Psychology, an MBA, and is also a
fellow of the RSA, FCIPD and an accredited trainer in NLP, yet believes it is
her pragmatic and down to earth approach to work and life that her clients most
value.
Ann’s passion is to help UK businesses to be proud of
themselves and to inspire UK leaders to inspire and engage their employees to
truly raise their game. Ann challenges her clients to ‘look into the mirror’ and
to take a look at how they present themselves both to each other, as well as to
current and potential clients, and to help them maximise their image for
success.
Ann has appeared on BBC local radio, in the UK national
press and also in corporate videos. She has presented at conferences and
seminars, including the Chartered Management Institute, The Federation of Image
Consultants and in 2008 has won an award at the Colour Me Beautiful ‘Oscar’
ceremony and international conference.

www.annskidmore.com

www.annskidmorecmb.co.uk

www.colourmebeautiful.co.uk

My female staffordshire terriers nipples are black?

My 3 year old female Staffordshire Terrier had a litter about 8 weeks ago. Her nipples turned a black/purple, and look some what swollen. I would like to get an idea of what this could be first, to save myself a trip to the vet.
No RUDE comments please !
She's Fawn/White. & her nipples were pink before. And I think she might of had a litter in her previous home.

I would say that she probably just hasn't fully "recovered" from her last litter. Instead of bringing her into the vet when it may be nothing, give them a call and just talk to them about it and see what they think. That won't cost you what a vet trip would...

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