This is a unexploded question, digit that I am ease figuring discover for myself. It's hornlike for me to conceive that I hit true personal call when a beatific portion of my clothes become from Old Navy or Target. Sure, I add accessories to the mix, but overall I sometimes feel that my call is dictated by what is available in my size and the amount of money I'm willing to spend kinda than what I truly choose to coiffe to represent my personality.
That aside, I'm ease working on expressing my call at any size. I've been doing this for as daylong as I crapper remember. Dressing my barbies and wishing her clothes would magically morph into my kid sizes so that I could countenance meet same her. Good thing for me that didn't actually happen, my barbie was kind of slutty. What I hit been doing for a rattling daylong instance is experimenting with my clothes. This pursuit has not ever been without flaws, embarrassment or foolish direction. But, gesture my adolescent and adult soul, I trusty hit tried.
I advert in Jr. High dressing same the boys I had crushes on. What did this mean? Band t-shirts, dickies uniforms, ball chains, and airwalks. I figured that in order for them to same me, I had to coiffe same them. Needless to say that did not work out. In high school I got a little better with personal style, but the plus size clothing of almost ten years past does not compare to what we hit today, not modify close.
Internet shopping was ease catching on and I was ease artefact too ashamed to shop at the fat girl stores in the mall. I would end up act the same outfits over and over and designed on buying newborn clothes when I lost weight.
I don't conceive it was until college or modify my short stint in nyc that I rattling started to figure discover how to coiffe myself in a artefact that represesnted who I am, and prefabricated me feel proud. This was and ease is not cushy as often nowadays plus size clothing tends to be same finding a harry in a haystack filled with polyester blend tops with slits in the sleeves or shine arrange running finished the woven material fix ups or the excessive details and the, well, you get it. And its not meet plus sizes, its short gals and tall gals and those who gain more in the region or those who gain more in the hips. Its really, all of us.
Where did I start? A few years back, around my junior year in college I bought a small gleaming fushia spiral notebook with blank pages (my selection kind) to modify with all of the images that inspired me. Delia's catalog and glamour entrepot cutouts filedl discover the prototypal few pages, after on I added images from jcrew, anthropologie, lucky entrepot and toast. Every countenance was an idea or inspiration. What did I same most these outfits? Was there a common arrange between them? Had my tastes denaturized over the years?
There was and ease is a common arrange between what is and is not my style. What isn't my style? Anything mod (1960's go-go, bold colors etc.), logos or obvious branding on clothing/accessories, sorority call (demin cut-off skirts, a polo or american eagle/abercrombie/holister tee), holiday/seasonal themed clothing, or pieces that countenance same the accessories should hit obstructed five or ten steps ago. Figuring discover what I don't same has ever been much easier. And there are things that I certainly coiffe that someone else would go discover of the house wearing, and that is how it goes.
Today's challenge (or tomorrow's, or whenever you hit time) is to get a notebook, a stack of magazines, scissors and a glue stick and set whatever instance divagation to set downbound and encounter inspiration. Try to bout downbound your comfort zone and outfits that you normally wouldn't coiffe and conceive outside of the box. Don't vexation most "it won't fit" , "it won't countenance beatific on me", or "I can't afford it" and meet rattling garner things that intercommunicate to you.
Maybe you same the artefact an appurtenances it styled, but maybe you would change the patterns or colors. Maybe you same a scarf, or the artefact they coiffe leggings with a short dress, anything. If it speaks to you, cut it discover and paste it in your "dream outfit" notebook. Maybe you same digit aspect of an outfit, but not another, or maybe you encounter appurtenances ideas in unexpected places same kids clothing catalogs, advertisements or modify movies and tv shows. Stay unstoppered to were you encounter inspiration. It crapper be at an art gallery, in your garden, or simply grouping watching at your local museum.
You crapper also do this online. I hit folders online under topics much as "art", "home", "food", "clothing", "makeup/hair" etc. and when I wager an imagine online that I rattling like, I save it for forthcoming ideas and looks. There are so many fashion blogs and daily coiffe websites that you are extremity to encounter looks that rattling appeal to you.
Once you've gathered individual outfits in your call journal start looking to wager if you notice a theme in your choices. Can you wager a similarity or divide between your imagine outfits and current attire? Are there gaps between the clothes that you imagine of act and the outifits that currently modify your closet?
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday assignment:
Look finished your call journal and wager if you crapper replicate an appurtenances with the clothes you already have. Don't vexation most an exact match, the colors may be off, the fabric may be different, but start thinking most your imagine appurtenances in terms same "fitted blazer, jeans, albescent t-shirt" etc. Start looking finished you blazers, wager anything similar in shape? What most jeans? Do you hit shoes that could transform this appurtenances into your own? Do you hit accessories or a newborn twist that module attain this appurtenances feel primary to you?
I'm involved as well and module garner discover an appurtenances tonight in my "inspiration" folder and create it tomorrow for work with a photo. If you do this, feel free to email your inspirational appurtenances and your translation. I module include a unification to your journal and an entry in a chance to win a digit year subscription to Lucky Magazine.
In need of whatever inspiration? Here are whatever of my selection places to countenance online for ideas:
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