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Image in need of a fix?

Kelly Liyakasa

Nov-13-09, 11:04 AM

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Topics: Hospitality

Move over, Tupperware party: the new girls’ get-together has arrived.

The “image party,” geared solely toward bettering oneself both inside and out, has seemingly spiked in popularity.
After all, who doesn’t need an occasional wardrobe tweak?

For Pam Friedlander, beginning Danbury business Positive Reflections was only natural.

She had spent years as a cosmetic consultant and event planner, coordinating traditional and specialty fashion shows.

She also found herself in an all-too-common scenario – she had undergone some weight fluctuations over time.
“I created the business because I wanted women to feel incredible about themselves,” she said. “I had lost weight and wanted to see myself differently. As a wardrobe consultant, I go into people’s homes and help them create outfits and save money. We get rid of things that don’t work and their look is completely updated.”

Friedlander also translates that work into what she calls “fashion therapy.”

“I do workshops and seminars in many different venues,” she said. “I just spoke at a working women’s forum in Newtown and speak at consignment shops, synagogues and girls-night-out kinds of things.”

Westchester County’s Bonni Stanley, owner of Chappaqua-based Get it Together, has also found business through image-focused speaking engagements.

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paula makes this comment

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Pam is right. The Baby boomers need all the help we can get keeping up with younger women in the work force. I have been to her workshops. Great tips for shopping in your closet. It's saved me a lot of money!

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