In this article, I wanted to share with you 5 tips on how you can consciously change up your clothing style.
Your dressing style will never be 100% static. It very well may change as you move through various stages of life. Specifically, if you relocate to a new city, start a new job, or become a parent.
Additionally, it’s possible that as your body changes, your wardrobe needs may also change.
A commonly held belief is that following “find your style guides” requires you to start from scratch, which is rarely the case.
You start from wherever you are right now and with your current wardrobe, and you build from there.
So, that’s the process, and I’ll also explain it to you in this article.
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Evaluate Your Current Style Requirements
You should assess your current style requirements as your very first thing. Before you do anything else, you must plunge into this.
You must allow functionality, style, and aesthetic to meet. If not, you’ll have clothes in your closet that you can’t actually wear.
Your lifestyle, all of your activities, and then your wardrobe must all be in harmony with one another.
It doesn’t have to match exactly, but it does give you a general idea of what clothes you should have in your closet.
This is also a fantastic exercise because it allows you to add to your current wardrobe.
It’s really uncommon to need to start from scratch, as I just mentioned. That also wouldn’t be very mindful. To start from scratch would not be very environmentally friendly.
It provides you the opportunity to analyze your current wardrobe and whatever else you already own, and then make adjustments from there.
Set Your Fashion Goals
The second thing you should do is make a list of your fashion goals.
What specifically about your current style doesn’t work? What features of your current style do you like? What do you dream to wear the most? What do you hope to express through your new style?
But keep functionality in mind as well.
It is critical that you remain realistic at all times. There is undoubtedly a lot of room to dream and to have fun. Just keep in mind to be realistic about what you can and cannot wear given the way of lifestyle you lead.
It’s all about figuring out how to incorporate it with your current wardrobe once you’ve taken the time to make some notes about your usual style, what’s working, what isn’t, and what you dream to wear more of.
Again, we build on the resources we already have accessible to us rather than starting from zero.
To make sure that you are at least aesthetically on the right track with your style, I would also advise you to start accumulating some visual inspiration.
For this, Pinterest will always be my favorite tool.
Develop Style Personality
It’s a really straightforward tool, but it’s very effective. This is unquestionably one of those tools that, once you actually learn how to use it, will have a pretty significant impact on the way you view and interact with your wardrobe. But also how you will buy new clothes in the future.
You’ll develop much greater awareness of the clothing you choose to wear. You’ll learn to avoid making impulse purchases and buying a lot of things you won’t be able to wear.
You’ll assign a percentage to each keyword after figuring which ones best define your personal style and wardrobe.
Let’s assume the scenario where we are discussing my personal style. I would say that my personality is approximately 70% casual, 15% edgy, and 15% classic.
Additionally, I have a couple more feminine standalone items that I try to wear more on special events or just occasionally to mix things up.
I categorize those as statement pieces because they don’t take up a lot of space in my wardrobe.
It’s just a wonderful way to organize and categorize the various style possibilities you have in your wardrobe. For instance, it will ensure that you don’t make too many feminine pieces for your wardrobe because you won’t feel completely comfortable wearing them.
That you will need more of the other components to fill up your wardrobe in order to maintain your sense of identity and stick to the personal style path you have chosen.
Contrast Dressing
Consider contrast dressing as your fourth thing.
It will be easier for you to genuinely work with the contrast dressing styling once you really start going into the style personality development where you determine the most dominating style directions you have within your wardrobe.
You achieve this by simply allowing one of your wardrobe’s style directions to occupy more space than the others.
I’ve already mentioned that my style is predominately casual, however I do have both more classic and edgy elements in my wardrobe.
Let’s say I wanted to update my look and wear more traditional clothing. Maybe I land a new job where I have to start wearing in more classic fashion.
I would have to let that particular style trend dominate my wardrobe while allowing the others to take a backseat.
It’s a great way for analyzing the various components that make up your wardrobe as a whole, but you should definitely look on the clothes that you’re currently wearing.
Imagine a scenario in which you must wear a smart-casual outfit to work. You want to look attractive and professional, without coming off as overly formal.
Mixing more casual and classic components is a great way to get this look.
Focus Using Your Best Colors
Focus on your best colors as the fifth piece of advice.
Curating a color palette is effective since you won’t end up with too many duplicates in your wardrobe or buying the same black sweater repeatedly.
Many people love wearing neutrals, especially those of us who like a more simple style. Sometimes this entails purchasing each pair of shoes in black and each white t-shirt.
That means that our wardrobe will contain a lot of duplicates. We might have less diversity in our outfits as a result.
Too many duplicates will put you in a style rut where you won’t feel like you have anything to wear.
It’s usually a great idea to have a variety of colors in your wardrobe, especially after you’ve established your preferred style uniforms.
Let’s say you like to wear the same three or four different style uniforms throughout the week. It is easier for you to change the look without having to change everything if you have a variety of colors to select from.
Additionally, it guarantees that, even with a capsule wardrobe, you won’t end exactly like everyone else.
Defining a color scheme that works for you is another way to ensure that your style is more unique and tailored to you, in addition to defining the various building blocks in your wardrobe.
It’s a great way to express oneself.
I hope you found this information interesting. I hope it helped you understand how to mindfully change up your clothing and dressing style. But also in a way that is unique to you.
