shwryr: Thoughts On Personal Style

I'm always asked about style in general and it seems as though the most people want to have great personal style but don't quite know how to develop it. So I'm going to give you some hopefully helpful tips on how to really develop your own personal style.

First things first, what exactly is personal style? Well personal style to me is really developing style unique to you that expresses who you are as a person. A lot of people get kind of caught up in celebrity style and what's going on in trends and let that dictate what they wear , but some of the best dressed people in history never followed trends or who whore what.

OK so what do you do then to avoid looking like frumpty dumpty? I will be the first to admit that having style does not come naturally to everyone so if you just don't know where to start, only then is a good time to use trends as a very light guideline but still stay true to yourself. If you're not into color blocking then why would you wear it? If you don't feel comfortable in something then simply don't wear it. Seems like common sense but you would be amazed at the amount of people that try to wear every up coming trend known to man in order to be stylish, but just end looking silly and in the end you're not really happy with what you're wearing.

Remember that fashion is fun! People spend so much time being so serious about something as surface as fashion and it sucks the fun right out of it. All the great designers before us that created looks not just add to them were experimenting. The only way to truly be fashionable is to be fearless in it. It's a cliche' but a very true one, you wear the clothes don't let the clothes wear you. Confidence is everything in this business and if you're not confident in what you're wearing then no one is going to nod you on your personal style. Remember its just fashion not brain surgery, it will take a lot of trial and errors and that's perfectly OK in the end you will learn what looks good on you and when you look good you feel good.