We've Got Style(s)

Two styles diverge in a yellow wood...

Recently, I asked my Twitter audience what they feel is holding them back from truly understanding their personal style. I got a lot of repeat answers, and I’ll address them in future posts, but, today, I want to talk about one that not only came up multiple times, but that I once struggled with myself: how do you pick just one style?

Now, I’m not talking about needing a separate wardrobe/look for work vs. your personal life, or for special occasions vs. everyday: I actually think it’s great to compartmentalize the different parts of your life via dress, especially if it helps you to get into the mindset required to exist in certain spaces. I’m talking about those day-to-day disparities, where you’re a sporty, effortless tomboy one day, a corsetted coquette the next, and a minimalist, avant-garde risk-taker in between: where it feels like there’s such a wide chasm between the extremes of your self-expression that there couldn’t possibly be a way to bridge the gap. How do you pick one? What do you say when someone asks you “what’s your style?” Who’s the real you?

The answer, or, I guess, answers are: you don’t have to, why would you need to answer that, and all of it.

The actual question is: how do you make sense of it all?