Fashion Tips to Create Your Personal Style
Image consultant, artist, and author Jennifer Robin shares her fashion tips that will help you have fun creating your personal style – without breaking your budget or financial goals!
Before her fashion tips, here’s a quip from supermodel Cheryl Tiegs:
“Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don’t,” said Tiegs. “And when I don’t, I do something about it.” (O Magazine, May 2004).
I don’t know what Tiegs does to make herself feel beautiful on her “ugly days” – but I do know that different things make different women feel gorgeous! For inspiration on feeling more beautiful and developing your image, click on Growing More Beautiful: An Artful Approach to Personal Style by image consultant Jennifer Robin. And, read on for her fashion tips to help you create your style…
Fashion Tips to Create Your Personal Style
Instead of the vague, unattainable goal of wanting to look your best, shift your focus to having fun as you coordinate your wardrobe! Instead of simply shopping for something new, set a goal of being more creative.
Bring more creativity into the daily act of getting dressed. Focusing on what brings you the most pleasure is good for your complexion and gives you that unmistakable glow that attracts others. Fashion and personal style is all about being creative: mix bright colors; or, if neutrals are more your statement, mix interesting patterns and textures. Raid that overlooked scarf drawer and jumbled jewelry box. This fashion tip can save you money, as you may already own many quirky, eclectic, and elegant accessories that can be mixed in chic new ways.
Invite a friend over for an afternoon of sharing ideas and inspiration. Compile your magazines and create a collage. Rip out your favorite looks and paste or tack them on to a big piece of poster board. Stand back and look at your results. You’ll be amazed by how you fabulously unique each of you are!
Make a fashion plan. You can’t ice and decorate a cake until you bake it. Think through your regular activities and jot down notes about the kinds of clothes you’ll need to create your personal style. Note the comfort challenges, such as unpredictable windy or rainy spring weather. Do you have a lightweight jacket or cardigan to protect you from the chill of summer air conditioning? Combining fashion tips with practical ideas can help you create your personal style.
Turn your closet into a playground. To create your personal style, get reacquainted with what your spring clothes that have been put away or out of sight for awhile. Hang your favorite items on a rolling rack, grouped by color, and look over what you currently own. Create texture and interest by adding accessories, especially scarves, jewelry, and belts. Give yourself a refresher course on the state of your warm weather wardrobe. Put together outfits, and try them on when you have time. Make note of anything you truly need and put this fashion tip to work: one basic piece can create a dozen outfits.
Go for it! If buying new clothes isn’t in your budget, you can still create your personal style. Take a shopping field trip, looking around for ideas instead of focusing on the goal of buying something new. Come home and look at what you own with fresh eyes. Fashion always changes slightly every season, and you may have inspiration to mix things together in ways that are different than how you wore them last year.
The secret to growing more beautiful is to stay engaged. Seek out all the pleasurable ways to enhance your creative experience of getting dressed each and every day.
Visit Jennifer Robin at GrowingMoreBeautiful! And if you have any fashion tips that help you create your personal sense of style, please comment below…we’d love to hear from you.
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Comment by Azam Mansha on 17 April 2009:
Fashion is the most sought after thing in the world. We are always wondering what’s in and what’s not, and we try to imitate every fashion as soon as it sets in and try to get rid of it just as soon as it becomes common. Sometimes these fashion tends are highly influenced by the celebrities, or something that is inspired from natural elements or some styles from the streets. These fashion fluctuations can be recognized as the effect of media on the common masses.