Is to be elegant something simple to achieve? Absolutely not, trust me.
In fact Italians often say “la classe non e’ acqua”, which means “being classy is a rare quality, non common like water, which instead you can find everywhere”.
Simplicity is the key of pure elegance.
Have you noticed how the ballet dancers make their movements look so simple? What they do only looks easy and smooth, but actually – let me assure you- it’s very hard and requires years of practice! But the simplest they make their movements look to our eyes, the more perfect and harmonious their performance is.
This very same concept applies to elegance.
When a woman wears a nice simple black dress, a pair of high heels, a necklace or a pair of earrings (both together is too much), and a small purse or clutch bag, she looks so elegant already. If she also wears a chignon hair style and just a very natural make up she can be incredibly chic!
For a man is even easier (but will talk more about men style in one of my next articles): he can look so elegant with just a pair of dark pants (no jeans in my opinion) and a shirt, which he can wear inside with a leather belt or outside (depending how he looks and feels and what’s the occasion), some nice dark leather shoes, a clean hair cut and that’s it really!
But what is actually behind this “simplicity”?
For the ladies, the black dress has to perfectly fit your body, the length of the dress -depends on the occasion- but in most cases, I prefer it to be just above the knees. For the shoes right now I would go with the L.K. Bennett pump style that Kate Middleton has been wearing this past Autumn (nude or black are both just lovely). As for the purse/clutch anything small and brilliant: gold or with glitters is great for the evening, otherwise for a cocktail afternoon orange, coral or purple. For the earrings go with anything you like and since it’s the only piece of jewelry you will be wearing, I would go with something quite big and shining.
Please see my choices in the pictures attached to this article:
The dress is a Love Moschino knee sleeveless black dress.
The shoes are the nude pump style from L.K. Bennett.
The earrings are called "gold ball" by Swarovski.
The bag is a Ted Baker Glitter Clutch Bag.
