Finding Your Style: How to Dress the Way You Have Always Wanted To
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For as long as I can remember, I have never been satisfied with my style. I just always feel like something is missing. There have been so many types of clothes and brands that I have wanted to own, but when it came down to it, I always found myself shopping for things that I was comfortable buying. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. You should be comfortable in the clothes you’re buying, but why should that stop you from dressing the way that you want to dress. Recently, I have realized that I spend so much time thinking about the style I wanted to have, but never doing anything about it. So, I decided to change that. Here is how I not only figured out the style I wanted to have but started to buy the clothes that will help me dress the way I have always wanted to.
I would probably describe my style as comfy-cute. I love making sweatpants, big t-shirts, biker shorts, and other pieces like that fashionable. But, before I started to get the pieces, I needed to make outfits like this, my style was a bleaker version of this. I would wear the same black sweatpants and the same crop-top every single week. So, the first thing I did was start screenshotting different clothing pieces I saw that I liked. Whether it was on Instagram or TikTok, I would make sure that every time I thought, “that would look cute on me,” I would have it saved so I could go back to it. Now, when doing this sometimes you run into the issue where that exact piece is a little bit more expensive because maybe it is a brand name or from a boutique, so I would image search the photos, or I would type words that described that piece into Google. This would allow me to find similar pieces for varying prices so I could gauge what was in my budget and what wasn’t.
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Once I started locating pieces, I was excited about, I would buy them. I have always had an issue with purchasing clothes that I am excited about. Sometimes I get nervous that maybe it won’t fit right or maybe I will never wear it, but there was no time to be making excuses anymore. I wanted to finally have a wardrobe I was excited about, so I had to overcome all of that. Of course, some things didn’t fit and that I didn’t like once I tried them on, so I returned them, but there were also things I did like. When I did like these clothes, I was excited to wear them.
Now that I had new pieces, I could style them any way that I wanted. I noticed myself trying new things that I had seen on social media that I thought looked good. It made me think about clothes in an entirely different way. I didn’t always have to wear the same sweatpants and crop-top combo because now I had multiple pairs of sweatpants, crop-tops, fabric pants, jeans, etc. that I could create into entirely new outfits. Even my friends started noticing a shift in the way I dressed. If we were all going somewhere together, they would comment on my outfits telling me they looked cute and that I have been changing up my styles recently. I have always been pretty insecure about my body and how clothes look on me, so this was a total game-changer in how I viewed myself because I could finally dress the way I always wanted to.
Strike Out,
Writer: Kayla Gallagher
Editor: Cali Robins
Graphic Designer: Taylor Kirby
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