Our personal style involves so much more than wearing the latest trends, making sure our clothes and shoes match, or buying random outfits that happen to fit into our daily routines. Instead personal style is a unique style that makes you feel comfortable and confident in yourself. It taps into the self-expressive aspect of fashion and helps you create your identity. It also allows you dress exactly how you want to be addressed.
Because finding your personal style is a very important step in the path to self-discovery, we’ve put together these tips on ‘how to find your personal style’ to help guide you!
1. Start with a style board
Before you embark on this journey, you must remember that finding and exploring your personal style is a process that could take weeks or months. During the search, you will most likely come across numerous inspirations and a style board can help you organize your inspirations.
On your style board you can cut out pictures of outfits you connect with, or make sketches of them and glue them to the board. A style board makes it much easier for you to choose what appeals most to you at the end of the day!
2. Define yourself
As mentioned earlier, your personal style is style custom-made just for you. So take a moment to define yourself. What outfits make you feel great and confident? Are you more comfortable in pants than in dresses? Write down the answers to these questions. Next figure out those outfits that make you feel out of your element. It could be that you don’t enjoy wearing dark color or that tight clothes make you feel self-conscious. Take a moment to consider these factors and write them on another list.
Afterward, consider your lifestyle. Of all those cloth designs, patterns, accessories and colors that appeal to you, which would be more suitable for your lifestyle? If you own a car and work in a corporate environment, your style may be chic like stilettos, dresses and skirt. And if you’re a mum who works mostly from home, comfortable apparels like denims and sneakers may be your personal style.
3. Use trends for inspirations
Fashion trends are a great source of inspiration when it comes to your personal style. Most times they’re captivating yet functional, which is one reason they quickly gain popularity.
So check out social media platforms like Instagram, watch runway shows and keep up with trendy celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Gigi Hadid and Beyoncé. From these fashion sources you can pick out elements you like and combine them to form your personal style.
4. Go window shopping
Window shopping is an active and interesting way to find your personal style. If your wardrobe currently does not have apparels that show your personality, go check out boutique and stores. Look at mannequins and walk through rows of clothes, shoes, bags and other accessories. Picture how they will look on you and ask yourself if it’s something you’ll like to be seen in. At the end of these trips, you will be much closer to finding your personal style.
If you’re too busy to go window shopping, you can also browse through online stores!
5. Consider colors and sizes
In the quest to create your personal style, keep in mind that your style must boost your self-confidence level. This makes sizes and colors important because they greatly influence how an outfit makes your feel. If you don’t feel comfortable in tight/fitting clothes, seek out bigger sizes instead. And if you feel like royalty in clothes that hug your body and emphasize your figure, then go for those!
Also, consider colors. If you’re a shy person who doesn’t like being the center of attention, your style may include a combination of light and dark colors e.g. a pink and brown outfit. But if you love drawing attention anytime you walk into a room, bright colors like white, yellow, red and orange may just be your style.
Bottom Line
Finding your personal style may become one of the most important decisions you’ve ever made. Just remember it’s about you –not what other people want to see you in. So choose a style that expresses your personality and sends the right message to people!
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