The Secret to Finding Your Personal Style May Be Right in Your Closet
If you’re wondering what your personal style is, chances are you’ve taken more than one online style quiz. When you’re trying to figure out if you like preppy clothes, romantic dresses, bohemian, or sporty clean lines and bright colors, you might browse some Pinterest boards.
What you may not have thought of is to look at the clothes you already have in your wardrobe. Now, I know you might think that the reason you check out online style guides is that you don’t like clothes in your closet. That’s my point of view.
Look for Your Style Cues from Clothes You Don’t Wear
The clothes you don’t or won’t wear are different from the clothes you can’t. Clothing you may not wear includes clothing that does not fit, is dirty or damaged, or needs to be modified. You can’t wear these items, they will make your wardrobe a clutter.
However, if you can get dressed and walk out of the house, but you don’t, then you need to consider why. Your answer is information that helps you determine your personal style.
Figure out What Color You’re Wearing
- Open your wardrobe door. What color is most eye-catching?
- Are you wearing all the colors in your wardrobe? Sort through the items hanging there and find out which colors of clothing or accessories you don’t wear.
- Why don’t you wear these colors? Do they make you feel monotonous or lack of energy? Do you associate colors with the uniform you wear (or wear)?
- Now, pick up your notebook and pen and draw a line in the center of the page. Mark one column as “What I like to wear” and the other as “What I don’t wear”.
- List the colors you don’t wear in the corresponding fields.
- Before listing the colors you’ve been wearing in the Likes column, think about whether you really feel great wearing them or if you’re wearing them for other reasons.
