Lately the fashion experts who tell us what to wear and why are confusing me. I used to enjoy clothes shopping. Not anymore. Now I think, am I buying the “wrong” jeans for my body type? Is this jacket length “wrong” for my height and physique? Am I wearing the “wrong” shoes with my outfit? Is this the “wrong” shade of green for my skin tone? Is this the “wrong” blouse for my bust size? Or maybe the “wrong” neckline? Indeed! Shopping has gotten crazily complicated.
When you listen to the advice of fashion experts on what works and what doesn’t, you begin to doubt yourself. Have you noticed that it’s almost impossible to get away from the fashion experts because they’re everywhere: on TV, radio talk shows, all those magazines, and now . . . . your friends who believe everything the so-called experts say.
Style means different things to different people. Life becomes a chore when we don’t trust our own sense of who we are in what we’re doing. Let’s do our own thing and be as creative with our lives as we can be. What the heck, as long as we’re not harming anyone, we can make those choices ourselves without any hairy eyeball directed our way. Often what’s called “wrong” is just someone’s opinion, and that’s the part we have to get past in order to be our own fashion expert.
So, here’s to us and knowing what works and what doesn’t as we let go of the cookie cutter fashions and have fun developing our own sense of style.
“We live but a fraction of our life.
Why do we not let in the flood,
raise the gates,
and set all our wheels in motion?” -Henry David Thoreau