Finding Your Personal Style

Trying to find your own sense of style can be a bit daunting, especially when it concerns trends. I’ve gone through such a change in my wardrobe in order to find my own style and to be honest this is all apart of growth in life. I shall now give some tips on finding your very own personal style (based on my personal thoughts and experience of course).

Rule No.1 – comfortability

To me, whatever I put on or buy, I have to be comfortable wearing it. Meaning I need to feel right in my clothes and this makes me feel good inside. Sounds really mushy but its true. Punks don’t walk down the road and question their clothing do they? No. They just walk, not giving a f*ck about what anyone has to say. This is what I mean by comfortabilty and this also plays an important part when it comes to your personal style. When you feel comfy in your clothes, stares and weirded out looks will not bother you and this leads me on to my next rule.

Rule No. 2 – Confidence

Confidence. This is one gift that you can give yourself and maintain. Personal style is based around this. I used to be insecure (not badly), but I would question my outfit choices and continuously ask myself, “ can I pull this off?” or “will this work?” Now I don’t have doubts. Confidence can change your whole outlook on your wardrobe. You’ll buy things without thinking twice because you know that the piece your buying is you down to the T and you can pull it off easily. Confidence will allow you to just be yourself and this will reflect through your clothing choices. One thing that I’ve learnt about confidence is to not rely on others to give it to you. I say this because, if you base your confidence off of what others say towards you then if they leave, they take that confidence with them. It takes time to build up but once you get there, you’ll never second-guess a fashion choice.

Rule No.3 – Make Trends your own

Once you have the last two rules in order this style thing becomes easy. Trends are the most tedious yet exciting things. Exciting for the fact that there’s new trend colours and new clothing pieces but tedious because, it means wardrobes change. Making seamlessly transitions from season to season can be a task. But when you have your own flair then you can pick out things from each trend, which corresponds with your wardrobe and style. Don’t let seasons and trends takeover your style, you have to let your style takeover them.

Rule No.4 – Do Not Follow

One of my most important rules. Based off of a quote that I love (I’ll put it at the end). Personal style does not come from following others and I don’t just mean celebrities. Its good to be inspired by people, whether they are family, friends, singers, designers etc. but do not expect to recreate the same outfits that they do. Do not live up to the expectations of other peoples’ fashion standards. Don’t get me wrong, I have a few fashion inspirations and icons, ranging from Coco Chanel to Lorde to Solange to Victoria Beckham, but I will never go out of my way to buy pieces exactly like theirs. I use their dress sense in order to get inspiration for clothing pieces, colours, patterns, and clothing shapes. I never follow. This is how people make a mockery of others (especially when the outfit isn’t pulled off properly). Use peoples’ fashion styles to build an incentive for originality.

Rule No.5 – Be Yourself

My favourite rule.

Always stay true to your being. Stay true to who you are. Clothes are a reflection of you. They are a reflection of your personality, they can scream 10 words to someone who doesn’t even know you. What you need to make sure of is that those words being screamed at people are the words you want people to hear.

“Flowers do not pay attention to other flowers. They just bloom”

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Leah x