What do you see?

Look down, what do you see? I am willing to bet safely that you see clothes. I do to a nice comfy sweatshirt to be honest. Over the last few years I have been experimenting with what looks good on me. Do I have an answer to that yet? Nope, just that I am in love with jeans with a healed brown bootie. Love that, gives me an extra boost of confidence. That is the thing that I am discovering about clothes and by extension a person’s style is that the right clothes can give you that boost to you confidence. On the other hand, the wrong clothes can have the reverse affect on it for a few days. Then there are days where you put something on look in the mirror and it is just not working for you a few days later you can put that same thing on and you are just like WOW. This has happened to me more times then I can count. Yesterday I put together an outfit for work and it was just working. I felt confident in it. I though the fabric sat nicely on my body. To be honest I felt like I carried myself with more pride yesterday. I personally love darker reds on me. The thing is though this same shirt pant combo I had tried last week and it was just no, I didn’t fee it, I thought it emphasized my problem areas and I was rather actually bummed by it at that time. Yet yesterday, I had posted a picture of my self in the outfit on face book and Instagram and got a lot of positive feedback from it.

On the flip side last week, I was wearing a cute green shirt that I had been on the fence about when I put it on. At the time I had though it did not look terrible, and I still believe that it was not terrible. It did not feel long enough though, and that caused me to be very self-conscious all day. I kept trying to pull it down. It also made me very aware of problem areas. I have a t shirt that has a cool pattern on it that while I like it and it is long enough does also, I feel draw attention to my problem areas. The times where I have worn it, I have not felt confident I have shied away from being around people unless I could put a coat on over the t shirt. To be honest I got a recommendation to go to a fabric store and take pictures with different fabrics draped over your shoulder and such. This is to get an idea of what looks good with your complexion and what does not, to give you an idea and help you discover your style. Thing is I do not feel like I can do that right now due to COVID. I am intending to do it and will post the pictures from it on my Instagram account. I recommend if you are like me though and trying to figure out what looks good or wanting to try something different find a fabric store and do it.

Clothes and figuring out your style I am learning are like the finish of a race. Knowing what looks good and listening to yourself about what you are feeling is that last burst to finish a race strong. It takes training though, and that is where experimenting and figuring out what you like, what looks good on you comes in. The most important thing though I am seeing is to listen to myself and my instinct as to if I am feeling the outfit or not. Try it for yourself, see if you notice a difference in yourself.