Have You Ever Had a Lucky Blazer?

For an entire season, I told myself it was luck. I had a blazer (you probably have one too) that I reached for on the days I had meetings with prospective clients or my top accounts. And I never once questioned why.

I spent my early career learning the rules of professional dressing the same way most women do. Black makes you look slimmer. Black makes you look authoritative. Black, with a pop of red if you really need to make a statement, was the color combination of power. I believed it. I wore it. My closet certainly reflected it. It was full of black suits, black tops, black dresses, black shoes… I suspect yours may be too.

Having battled my weight most of my life, that was all the more reason I wanted to always wear black.

I was running my own sales and marketing agency at the time, and prospecting, presentations, and sales were my job. I noticed something I couldn’t explain: on certain days, in certain outfits, I opened more accounts. Closed more deals. The conversations flowed differently. I was magnetic in a way that felt effortless.

I had two theories.

One: it was the blazer. My lucky blazer. It was beautiful and had good energy. That must be it.

Two: I felt great in it — thinner, somehow, more put-together. More myself.

Both were partially true. Neither was the real answer.

What the Blazer Knew

I’m going to let you in on the most interesting aspect of this whole thing.

When I wore that blazer, I was On Brand.

Not on-trend. Not dressed to impress a version of myself I was trying to become. On Brand. Meaning: I was showing up in alignment with who I actually am.

Despite working in the NYC and Philadelphia metropolitan areas — where black is practically a uniform and authority dressing is its own religion — I am not a city sleek executive. I never was. I’m more down-to-earth than that. Softer, more artistic. And that blazer — the color, the style, the way it felt on my body — reflected that truth back to me.

What that means is: I was just being present as myself.

Being present as myself, I was sending a coherent message. My energy, my appearance, my words all said the same thing. There was no disconnect. No incongruence. Just resonance.

That is why the buyers were more receptive. That is why the big deals closed.

And that is when I understood the black. I hadn’t been dressing in authority. I had been dressing in rules — and underneath the rules, in armor. Black to look slimmer. Black to appear more powerful. Neither one was an expression of who I am. And that is exactly the kind of dissonance that unwittingly works against you.

Color isn’t just decoration. It is communication that’s happening constantly, underneath conscious awareness, before a single word is spoken. The colors you wear either harmonize with your natural energy or they create dissonance within it.

Dissonance is subtle. You are rarely aware of it in the moment. But it shows up — in the presentation where you feel slightly off, the client meeting that never quite clicks, the days when your confidence reaches for something it can’t quite find.

Harmony is just as subliminal. And just as powerful.

When your colors and your energy are aligned, when what you wear is an accurate expression of who you are, something shifts. You become more at ease. More magnetic. Not because you’re trying harder, but because you stop working against yourself.

I’m not saying that you will sell more, close more deals, or gain more clients simply by wearing your most aligned colors. What I will say is this: when you dress in harmony with who you are, you stop sending a mixed message. To your clients. To your market. To yourself. That is subliminal communication at work.

This is the work of Enchant Your Style, the color and wardrobe system within Enchant Your Brand™ — and it comes to life in Color Couture Events, intimate wardrobe color experiences designed to show you exactly how to dress in harmony with your Radiance. Not fashion trends or haute couture — though it can include both. Authenticity. The idea is this: when your external expression matches your internal truth, you become unmistakable — to your clients, your market, and yourself.

Your personal brand has a Radiance. It exists whether you’re dressing for it or not. The question is whether what you’re wearing is amplifying it — or dampening it.

My lucky blazer wasn’t lucky. It was an amplifier.

And when you dress in colors that harmonize with your natural Radiance, in styles that reflect who you have actually become, you can have your best days every day.

Not by luck. By alignment.

If this story felt familiar — if you’ve had your own version of the lucky blazer — Color Couture Events were designed for you.

Small group. In-person. Intimate. We look at your colors, your energy, and your Radiance together — and you leave knowing exactly how to dress in alignment with who you actually are.

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