Personal Color & Style Analysis

Dress with
quiet confidence.

Discover the colors that make your skin glow, the silhouettes that flatter your shape, and a wardrobe built entirely around who you already are — guided one-to-one by a personal stylist and color analyst.

Private studio in Old Town Alexandria, VA · Personal color analysis and styling for Washington DC, Arlington, Northern Virginia, and the wider DMV

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500+clients styled
12seasons of color, refined into 4
1:1private sessions
Flavia Caldeira draping color analysis fabrics at Dress Code Studio in Old Town Alexandria
The Studio

Styling, built the way a couturier would build it — around you, not a trend.

Dress Code Studio is a private image consulting and personal styling practice in Old Town Alexandria, VA. Through personal color analysis, body and face shape assessment, and considered wardrobe editing, your personal stylist helps you dress with clarity — fewer pieces, better fit, colors that were made for you. Clients come to the studio from across Washington DC, Arlington, and Northern Virginia.

Draping

Fabric-based seasonal color analysis, done by hand

Editing

Wardrobe audits that keep what works and release what doesn't

Guidance

A personal style guide you keep long after the session ends

Inside Your Session

What actually happens in a color analysis

It's hands-on, not theoretical — real swatches, real testing, held against you in natural light.

01

Hair Swatch Draping

Warm and cool-toned hair swatches held against your face to see which lifts your whole coloring.

02

Makeup & Skin Matching

Foundation, blush, and lip shades tested live against your natural undertone.

03

Metal & Jewelry Testing

Gold versus silver, held right at your neckline, to see which one actually makes you glow.

04

Fabric Draping

Dozens of fabric swatches draped at your shoulders to isolate your true seasonal palette.

Seasonal Color Analysis

Find your season

Every complexion falls closest to one of four seasonal families — each with its own undertone, depth, and chroma. Draping works through the full 12-season color analysis system before refining your result down to the one that is truly yours.

Spring

Warm & Light

Summer

Cool & Soft

Autumn

Warm & Deep

Winter

Cool & Clear

Body Shape Analysis

Dress the shape you have, not the one on a chart.

Proportion changes everything — which necklines open your face, which waistlines define you, which cuts sit right. We identify your shape first, then build every styling decision around it.

  • ✓A private assessment of your proportions, not just a size or number
  • ✓Guidance on necklines, waistlines, and cuts that balance your frame
  • ✓A visual reference guide to keep for shopping and getting dressed
  • ✓Notes tailored to your shape — hourglass, pear, rectangle, inverted triangle, or round
Find Your Shape
Hourglass
Pear
Rectangle
Inverted Triangle
Round

five shapes, one honest starting point

a wardrobe, edited to your palette

Personal Styling & Wardrobe

Every hanger earns its place.

Once your palette is defined, we bring it into your actual closet — building outfits, editing what no longer fits your story, and shaping a wardrobe that works as hard as you do. Personal shopping and closet edits are available throughout Alexandria, Arlington, and Washington DC.

  • ✓Head-to-toe personal styling sessions, built around real occasions in your life
  • ✓Closet edit & capsule wardrobe curation, sorted by your season and silhouette
  • ✓A tailored shopping list of gaps to fill — no impulse pieces, no guesswork
  • ✓Seasonal wardrobe transitions, refreshed twice a year with you
Start Your Wardrobe Edit

"I stopped buying clothes that almost worked. Now everything in my closet actually does."

— Client, Color Analysis & Wardrobe Edit
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Styling client before her color analysis, wearing a washed-out white tee and black leggingsBefore
The same client after her color analysis and wardrobe edit, wearing a terracotta pleated midi dress with a fitted beltAfter
Real Transformations

The same woman. A clearer reflection.

Styling isn't about becoming someone else — it's about removing what doesn't fit and letting what already suits you come forward.

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What We Offer

Ways to begin

Every session starts with your palette — from a single analysis to a full wardrobe transformation. Every appointment is held at the Old Town Alexandria studio, or virtually for clients across DC and Northern Virginia.

01

Standard Color Analysis

A focused 40-minute 12-season analysis: your season, best colors near the face, harmonious metals, a few makeup and lipstick picks, and a digital palette.

$189
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02

Premium Color Analysis

Our signature in-depth draping session, adding hair color, full makeup, and metals analysis, plus a printed swatch card and personalized digital color guide.

$299
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03

Standard Color Analysis for Two

Bring a friend, partner, or family member for a shared 80-minute session. Each person gets their season, best colors and metals, makeup picks, and a digital palette.

$340
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04

Standard Color Analysis for Three

A shared analysis for three. Each person gets their season, best colors and metals, makeup and lipstick picks, a physical swatch card, and a digital palette.

$455
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05

Premium Color Analysis for Two

The complete premium experience for two: full draping, metals, hair color, and makeup guidance, each with a physical swatch card and detailed digital guide.

$530
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06

Signature Styling Consultation

For clients who already know their palette: body shape, face shape, and proportion analysis, with your best silhouettes, cuts, and necklines, plus a custom PDF style guide. Color analysis not included.

$299
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07

Full Personal Styling + Color Analysis

Complete color analysis and the Signature Styling Consultation in one session: hair, makeup, and metals, body and face shape, a swatch card, and a PDF style guide.

$499
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08

Full Styling Experience

The complete transformation: color, body shape, and face shape analysis, shopping guidance, wardrobe planning, a curated closet edit, occasion lookbooks, and a signature style moodboard.

$650
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09

Monthly Styling Support

Ongoing guidance to keep building your wardrobe and confidence, month to month. Added on when you book any session.

$135/mo
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Mentoring & Affiliate Program

Learn the method. Become an affiliate.

Private 1:1 mentoring in our full color analysis and styling method — learn hands-on, then start working with color analysis as a certified Dress Code Studio affiliate.

One Step, One Path

Apply for 1:1 mentoring.

Complete private mentoring in color analysis and styling, then step directly into our affiliate network — taking on clients and referrals under the Dress Code Studio name.

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The Journal

Style & Color Guides

Practical, no-fluff guides on color, shape, and building a wardrobe that actually works.

How to Find Your Color Season

What "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," and "Winter" actually mean, and how to find out which one you are.

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How to Dress for Your Body Shape

Identifying your shape and choosing necklines, waistlines, and cuts that flatter it.

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Build a Capsule Wardrobe You'll Wear

A step-by-step approach to editing your closet into a wardrobe that works.

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Does a Tan Change Your Color Season?

The truth about tanned skin, undertone, and why your palette stays the same all year.

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Why Some Colors Look Expensive and Others Don't

Saturation, undertone, fabric, and contrast — the real reasons some color reads as luxury and some reads as cheap.

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Dress Code Studio

Styling tips for your season

Once a month: the colors to wear in your palette, the ones to skip, and how to shop them. Studio dates go out here first, too.

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Begin Your Styling Journey

Your colors, your shape, your style — waiting to be discovered.

Sessions are private and unhurried, held at the Old Town Alexandria studio or virtually. Minutes from Arlington, National Landing, and downtown DC, with street parking on N Washington. Reserve your consultation today.

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Flavia Caldeira, Founder of Dress Code Studio, working with a client
Who's Behind Dress Code Studio

Flavia Caldeira

Founder, Dress Code Studio

Certified with The Outfit Curator, formally trained in Fashion Styling by FIT NYC and Personal Fashion Styling by UAL London, with hands-on experience assisting on Vogue editorial shoots.

"Beyond credentials, styling is personal to me. The ritual of getting dressed — choosing colors, silhouettes, and textures that reflect who you are — is a daily expression of identity.

My work focuses on helping clients discover their most harmonious colors and curate wardrobes that feel effortless, intentional, and powerful."
— Flavia Caldeira