What does "success" mean for you?

Perhaps you've been too busy making a living to ever give it more than a passing thought. There are as many different definitions of success as there are human beings. What's yours?

There are those who say that one failure of our times is the belief that success is synonymous with material possessions. Many people spend their lives accumulating wealth, yet in the end feel hollow and unfulfilled. Another failure happens when we mold our idea of success with other people's specifications, even if these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts.

Adding Height If You're Under 5'3"

• Avoiding a little girl look is a major concern of petite women. By creating vertical lines and wearing fashions designed especially for the petite figure, you can seemingly add inches to your height.
  
• Wear vertical stripes and small prints.
• Keep dress lengths just below the knee and jackets and sweaters in shorter length as well.
• Wear sling-backs and sleek pumps with matching stockings.
• Don't wear billowy sleeves, large ruffles, prints or horizontal stripes.
• Beware of pants that "sag" making your legs look shorter, and avoid cuffs.

Confidence Must Come From Within, Not From Your Clothes

Still, there's one important factor that we must know--and that is how to carry ourselves with confidence. People tend to think that simply wearing the right kind of clothes is enough to do the trick. Well, admittedly, sometimes yes.

But if you depend on clothes to give you strength of character and the right attitude, your self-esteem and self-confidence will become dependent on what you wear. That's too much power to endow a personal wardrobe.

Self-esteem and self-confidence must come from within and never from outside factors such as fashion. You should therefore "carry" your clothes instead of letting your clothes carry you.

You can go on creating your own images and fuss over the elements of your fashion, but in the end, once you're done putting things together, you must ultimately project who you are--from the inside.

This is true essence of fashion -- your personality -- the one and only you.