Maureen Gates

What Do I Have To Say About Dressing Sexy After Fifty

1. How did this book come about?

It was at the suggestion of my husband. We were going out to dinner, walking to one of our favorite local restaurants. He was just remarking about how pretty I looked when a big gust of wind (Portland, you know) blew my skirt up, panties and all exposed. Very Marilyn Monroe. We laughed and he said you should write a book about dressing sexy, I laughed and said, Yes dressing sexy after fifty, what a joke, but from that suggestion grew the idea for this book. So, it was suggested by a man, but the book is for women and about women being sexy for ones self first and foremost. It doesnt matter if you have a man in your life, or even want one in your life. Its something you do for yourself . . . there is the theory from Field of Dreams—build it and he will come. That could be a very nice by product sure, but my contention is that you do this for yourself.

2. Do you feel everyone needs to dress sexy?

I feel we are all sexual beings and to ignore that aspect of ones self is to limit the human experience. Sensuality is key to everyday living. It gives richness to the everyday fabric of our lives.

3. But isnt it time consuming to spend so much time dressing?

No not at all. It takes just about the same amount of time to dress like a schlump as it does to dress sexy. It starts with building your closet, by that I mean your basic pieces and gradually adding onto your basic wardrobe with the bonus pieces. It just takes knowing who you are, what you want to project, what your body type is and then what looks good for your body type what colors are good on you. Assess what you already have that is working for you and get Maureens business, www.maureengates.com as a stylist and image consultant has taken her from coast to coast and all over the world. She currently divides her time between Portland, New York City and Malibu.

Her focus is to assist you in bringing to full expression, in the most flattering way possible, all that your life experience has enabled you to become. She will help you create the visual persona you want to present to the world, both professionally and personally, by creating a well-crafted and edited wardrobe.

Maureen has dressed many famous people, and she brings her experience as a costume designer

to her work. Throughout the 25 years that she worked in Hollywood she dressed many of the women you recognize, including Lucille Ball, Lana Turner, Audrey Meadows, Elizabeth Ashley, Felicity Huffman, Helen Hunt, and Brenda Strong.

She knows what clothes say about the individual, she knows how to create an instant visual impact, and she knows how to make it all look effortless. Her list of clients remains confidential and their transformations are theirs to know.

Services:

Initial consultation

Image review and defining

Closet assessment, editing, and organizing

Shopping

Special Events

Graduate of

Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in Paris

Accademia Di Costume E Moda in Rome

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