Scale Strategy is the final step in understanding the clues your Body Elements give you. This step helps you understand the scale of prints and accessories that bring out your natural beauty. You want to make sure prints and accessories don’t take center stage. They’re supporting actors in your presentation. On the other hand, they shouldn’t be so small that they don’t contribute to it either.
Scale of prints and accessories is determined by the actual size along with its visual weight. To learn more about how to determine the scale of a print or accessory and determine your Scale Strategy go to: Scale Strategy — Bringing It Together.
Scale Strategy
Determining your Scale Strategy is a 2 step process:
- Combine the scale clues for Color Skin, Hair, Eyes with Body Frame Size
- Adjust step 1 for the Body Proportion scale clues
Step 1
You combine the scale clues from the color of your skin, hair and eyes with the size of your skeleton. This creates your overall Scale Strategy. For example, if your scale clue for your skin, hair and eyes is large and the scale clue for your body frame is small, then you have an overall strategy of medium. On the other hand, if the clue from the color of your skin, hair and eyes is medium and your Body Frame Size is large, then your overall strategy is medium/large.
Step 2
Adjust your overall Scale Strategy for a particular area of your Body Proportion. For example if your overall strategy is medium and your Body Proportion between your chin and bust is long, then increase the scale of prints and accessories in that area to between medium and large. On the other hand if that area is short, then decrease the scale of prints and accessories in that area to between small and medium. To determine the exact size, play around with it. You’ll know the right size for you by how you feel. If you feel light, then that’s the size. If you feel heavy, then try another size.
Scale Strategy -- Sam
Sam’s scale strategy clues are:
- Color Skin, Hair and Eyes — Large
- Body Proportions —
- Top of head to chin — Same
- Chin to bust — Decrease
- Bust to waist — Same
- Waist to crotch — Increase
- Crotch to knees — Same
- Knees to floor — Same
- Torso — Same
- Legs — Same
- Body Frame Size — Medium
Step 1
Sam first combines the scale clues for Color Skin, Hair and Eyes: large, with that of Body Frame Size: medium. The result is medium/large. This is her overall Scale Strategy.
Step 2
Then she adjusts scale size when a print or accessory lands just in one Body Proportion area. For example, for a belt that’s worn between her waist and crotch, she’ll adjust the scale for body proportion. See the following adjustments:
- Top of head to chin — Medium/large
- Chin to bust — Medium
- Bust to waist — Medium/large
- Waist to crotch — Large
- Crotch to knees — Medium/large
- Knees to floor — Medium/large
- Torso — Medium/large
- Legs — Medium/large
Scale Strategy -- Monica
Monica’s scale strategy clues are:
- Color Skin, Hair and Eyes — Medium
- Body Proportions —
- Top of head to chin — Same
- Chin to bust — Same
- Bust to waist — Increase
- Waist to crotch — Increase
- Crotch to knees — Decrease
- Knees to floor — Decrease
- Torso — Increase
- Legs — Decrease
- Body Frame Size — Large
Step 1
Monica’s overall Scale Strategy is also medium/large because the scale clue from her coloring is medium and her body frame is large.
Step 2
She’ll now adjust the medium/large scale for her specific Body Proportion clues:
- Top of head to chin — Medium/large
- Chin to bust — Medium/large
- Bust to waist — Large
- Waist to crotch — Large
- Crotch to knees — Medium
- Knees to floor — Medium
- Torso — Large
- Legs — Medium
Scale Strategy -- Alice
Alice’s scale strategy clues are:
- Color Skin, Hair and Eyes — Small
- Body Proportions —
- Top of head to chin — Same
- Chin to bust — Increase
- Bust to waist — Same
- Waist to crotch — Decrease
- Crotch to knees — Same
- Knees to floor — Same
- Torso — Same
- Legs — Same
- Body Frame Size — Medium
Step 1
Alice combines the scale clues from her coloring: small, and body frame: medium. The result is small/medium.
Step 2
Now she adjusts this overall scale for her specific Body Proportion clues:
- Top of head to chin — Small/medium
- Chin to bust — Medium
- Bust to waist — Small/medium
- Waist to crotch — Small
- Crotch to knees — Small/medium
- Knees to floor — Small/medium
- Torso — Small/medium
- Legs — Small/medium
Scale Strategy -- Grace
Grace’s scale strategy clues are:
- Color Skin, Hair and Eyes — Medium
- Body Proportions —
- Top of head to chin — Same
- Chin to bust — Same
- Bust to waist — Decrease
- Waist to crotch — Increase
- Crotch to knees — Same
- Knees to floor — Decrease
- Torso — Same
- Legs — Decrease
- Body Frame Size — Small
Step 1
Grace’s overall Scale Strategy is small/medium because her coloring scale clue is medium and her body frame clue is small.
Step 2
She’ll then adjust this size when wearing prints and accessories worn in just one area of her body. The adjustments are:
- Top of head to chin — Small/medium
- Chin to bust — Small/medium
- Bust to waist — Small
- Waist to crotch — Medium
- Crotch to knees — Small/medium
- Knees to floor — Small
- Torso — Small/medium
- Legs — Small
Scale Strategy -- Veronica
Veronica’s scale strategy clues are:
- Color Skin, Hair and Eyes — Small
- Body Proportions —
- Top of head to chin — Same
- Chin to bust — Same
- Bust to waist — Decrease
- Waist to crotch — Decrease
- Crotch to knees — Increase
- Knees to floor — Increase
- Torso — Decrease
- Legs — Increase
- Body Frame Size — Medium
Step 1
When combining her scale clues for Color Skin, Hair and Eyes with that of Body Frame Size, Veronica’s overall Scale Strategy is small/medium.
Step 2
Now she adjusts this result for the clues her Body Proportions give her:
- Top of head to chin — small/medium
- Chin to bust — small/medium
- Bust to waist — Small
- Waist to crotch — Small
- Crotch to knees — Medium
- Knees to floor — Medium
- Torso — Small
- Legs — Medium
Summary
Now that the Girls know the range of their best scale of prints and accessories, the fun starts. They should try on different prints and accessories in their ranges to determine exactly the right sizes. For example, Monica should wear necklaces that are medium/large, so she needs to determine the exact size that works for her. She’ll know the right size when wearing it because she’ll feel light. Once she understands the scale of the prints and accessories she wears, she’ll know by sight if it works for her without trying it on.
Over the past 6 weeks the Girls have learned about the clues for design lines and colors their bodies are giving them. The next step is to go to their closets to determine why their favorite outfits work for them. They’ll look at the outfits’ design lines and colors and will compare them to their bodies’ clues. Each week each Girl will evaluate her favorite outfit. Next week Sam’s outfit is up first. The post is called Analyze Favorite Outfit — Sam.
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