Develop your style
Don’t know how to dress? Unhappy with your wardrobe? Are you looking for your style and wonder where to start?
I’ll tell what are the main steps to figuring out your style, so that you finally know how to show your personality through your fashion choices.
It really comes to only few steps that are simple if you know yourself or get an outside objective perspective.
All you need are the right colors, right styles and a solid wardrobe plan.
What is a personal style?
To have a personal style means to dress in a particular and predictable way. To wear what suits you and fits you. Your style should be:
Uniform
The colors and styles of clothes you wear should match and not clash. Even if you choose to combine multiple styles, they still need to go together and complement each other.
Stable
Elegant on Monday and rocker on Friday? That wouldn’t work. Style is characterized by being stable over time. It may evolve a bit, but it doesn’t change rapidly based on trends.
Authentic
It’s best to have a style that comes naturally to you, i.e. you don’t have to fake it till you make it. It’s based on what suits you, who you are, what’s important to you and how you look.
3 steps to your style
1. Know your best colors
Want to look really good in your style? Start by choosing the right colors. The ideal colors for you will be based on the colors of your body, i.e. skin, hair, eyes, etc.
You can find them with the help of a seasonal color typology, but it’s pretty unreliable, so I’d rather recommend getting your own personal customized palette.
I base my work on the principles of seasonal color typology, but I don’t shove people into pre-designed boxes that never fit 100%. Instead of types, everyone gets their own unique palette.
I have experienced for myself what it’s like to wear the wrong colors, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that finding my best colors was THE breakthrough I was looking for.
2. Find your style (essences)
Find the styles that look best on you, choose the elements you like the most about them, combine them with your colors and the best designs for your body and voila, your style is born.
Yeah, it sounds simple, but I know that figuring out which styles (or essences) suit you is THE hard part. They have to match your vibe which is hard to define and comes from both physical features and what’s inside.
The fastest and easiest way to find your style is to consult a professional. Luckily for you, I’d love to help you.
3. Build a wardrobe
The last step is to actually start wearing your clothes and the best way to make sure you will is to build a capsule wardrobe.
That’s a wardrobe that contains only a limited number of well-thought out items (20 to 35 is a sweet spot for year-long one), uses at most 5 to 8 of your best colors (at least 2 neutrals) and combines basic and statement pieces so that you have something for any occasion.
One more important rule – each top, sweater and coat should go with every bottom piece (skirt, pants) for easy combining.
I love to make visual wardrobe plans for other styles too, so check those out. You’ll see that practical wardrobe can be stylish and fun no matter the style.