What to Wear Wednesdays: Slightly Casual Engagement Session
Here’s another plug for my style guide that I provide my clients to help them make the hard decisions for their photo shoot. Today’s “what to wear” is for an engagement session but really could be extended for a mom and dad on a family portrait session. I’ve kept the colors light because I think lighter colors compliment the skin better and l think these colors compliment golden hour colors from the sun better.
I usually recommend a longer dress for the ladies because long, full-length, flowy dresses and skirts look amazing on camera because they bring extra movement to the photos. Especially when juxtaposed with nature, like open fields, forest, or beaches. I LOVE this mint color – it’s really popular right now and I think it compliments a variety of different skin tones. It’s also a casual dress which is what I hear from a lot of clients that they’re looking for. This material looks like it would be fairly airy in this Texas heat! This would look nice with a pair of strappy sandals or if you wanted to get a few shots with your cowgirl boots standing in tall grass that’d look great too.
I love this shirt for it’s color (and how it compliments the dress color) and for it’s material. You can pull off several different looks with this shirt by having the sleeves down or rolled up slightly. You can also bring along a sport coat to throw on for a quick shot to make your photos look slightly different.
Long fitted pants are the most sophisticated and most masculine and help draw attention away from legs and feet and place the attention on the face. Loose and baggy pants make legs look actually bigger than they are. I always recommend fitted pants. These khakis are a great match for the shirt and chances are you might already have a pair like this. If you don’t, adding them to your wardrobe won’t be hard because they will get a lot of use out of them. Finish this look off by wearing a pair of brown closed toed shoes.
