Do you follow fashion, or do you have your own style? This is a good question as if we did follow fashion we would be permanently shopping. Fashion trends change so quickly so you would have to be buying fast fashion.
Do you have the ideal figure?
The ideal figure is very much a product of It’s time. Queen Victoria was barely 5 feet tall and was an influencer of her day. She was small and dainty, and women wore flat slippers to be as short as possible. Paintings in the 17th century showed women with an ample covering of flesh at a time when most women couldn’t afford to be so well fed.
So how did we get from short and fat to where we are today. In the 1920s the bust-to-waist ratio of the ideal female figure changed dramatically. Curves went out and a straight up and down boyish figure became fashionable. Women bound their breasts to appear to be flat chested.
By the 1950s after privations of the second world war the pendulum had swung the other way, and the well-fed hourglass figure of Marilyn Monroe became ideal. Adverts encouraged skinny women to take weight gain tablets supplements.
In the 1960’s & 70s it swung back the other way and the athletic slim figure was ideal, strange. Since that time there has been various types of thinness until recently you can buy cycling shorts with padding to make the bottom larger and rounder following the influence of Kin Kardashion.
Do you follow fashion, or do you have your own style?
I do feel that we are being dictated to about what we should be wearing, and this has been going on for years. So, what and who decides what we should be wearing? It is great marketing from the stores themselves which we have access to all the time. If you are subscribed to the retailers to receive their offers and updates, they will email you every day. These emails are telling you what you should be wearing and enticing you to buy. Most of us have access to our emails on our phones and are scrolling on and off all day. Coupled with that we have social media, which has a huge influence on us with retailers posting and influencers also posting on behalf of the shores too. All trying to get us to buy into the new trends, regardless of whether it will suit your style or preferred colours.
The marketing is so clever and has a way of telling us that once we buy into these trends we are going to feel so much better about ourselves. We all like to buy something new and feel good wearing a new item especially when we get some nice compliments. The question you need to ask yourself is. Do I need this item in my wardrobe? Will it be an asset and work with what I already have in my wardrobe? and is it right style and colour for me?
Sometimes there is no need to buy more we just need to shop our own wardrobe and try styling what we have in a different way.
High Fashion is disposable fashion
If you are a real follower of fashion, you will be turning your wardrobe around quickly as the trends are in and out very quickly hence, you don’t want to pay too much for each item. That begs the next question these items then become disposal fashion. Thinking of landmines overflowing is this the way to go.
You can dress for your own body shape and embrace the fashion trends.
Knowing your body shape, you will be to choose the right style to flatter your figure. Being aware of the right colours for your skin tone will enable you to choose the right style and which trends to embrace. My advise do not buy just because it is in fashion, choose items in your colour and style so you can be the best version of you. This will you give you confidence and a much-needed boost.
If you need any help or advise please do get in touch. If you are unsure of “How to dress your body shape” you can download my eBook here to analysis your shape and how to dress it to bring out the best in you.
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