how to find your personal style
and why a focus on flattering will keep you from discovering it
Having a sense of your personal style is an important piece of getting dressed. Before you can clean out your closet or buy anything, you need to have a vision for how you want to look and feel. Like an organization devising a mission statement, it serves as a measuring stick for future decisions. Whether or not you should keep, buy, or wear things gets measured against your vision and if it doesn't fit into the image, you don't keep/buy/wear it. This doesn't mean that you always have to stick with that one vision, it just means it'll be easier to create a wardrobe that works with itself.
With my clients, I help them through the process by looking at images, seeing what’s in their closets, listening to them talk about their clothes, and trying different styles. If you're working through this on your own, it can be hard to figure out your personal style for a few reasons.
Some of us have a hard time seeing ourselves as someone with a personal style because of the shape or size of our bod…
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