Fashion has always been a challenge for people because it illustrates our ability to accommodate to it and represents a way to evaluate others’ ability to accommodate to the new social trends. Therefore, we have been and are always keeping an eye on new trends to show flexibility and the ability to comply with the new trends. This effort also comes from the fact that on the opposite side we have the elderly, who are used to clinging to the ancient ideas of how people should dress and behave. Following this, the difficulty of conforming to new trends is often associated with rigidity to change and a rigid way of thinking similar to that of our grandparents. Thus, in order to easily integrate into society, we must accommodate to the fashion trends too.
How to show that we have a taste in fashion?
Things that bring visual pleasure, namely, color balance, shapes, and styles, have always been considered fashionable. From this point of view, it is not necessary to adapt our wardrobe to the new fashion styles every year, but rather to follow the balance with which we match the clothes we wear and not to migrate with age to the fashion with no taste; there are clothes that are suitable for people over 50-60 in stores that do not necessarily have to be wide flowered gowns and dresses as we know from our grandmothers.
What to look for when dressing?
– Changing the short legs perspective
There are many women who do not have legs as long as they would like to have to create a visual balance between pants and blouse. To compensate for this, we will choose to wear high-waist pants that will give the impression of long legs, and shorter blouses that will give the impression of a smaller torso. In this way, our bodies will look taller and we will look thinner. In the case of skirts, we will choose either short skirts or long skirts down to the ground to create the impression of long legs.
– Colors
Although we have certain colors considered fashionable every year, the colors must not be necessarily chosen according to fashion but to how well they match our skin and hair color. It would be in vain to choose something fashionable if it does not highlight some features of ours or even worse if it makes us look ugly.
Thus, when choosing a color we will rather follow the colors that suit us, their different shades and not necessarily a fashionable color, especially since fashionable colors are something subjective, which change from year to year depending on the preferences of fashion designers.
– Forms
People have different shapes. However, often fashion will rule on weak bodies because most models are skinny. Because of this, some types of body shapes will be left outside of the fashion trends. The solution will be to look out for companies that produce clothes dedicated to certain body shapes. For example at Forever 21 we found many clothes for hourglass-shaped bodies, on the other hand at Zara we find more clothes for tall and thin girls. In general, each company addresses a certain audience, therefore when we look for our clothes we will have to take into account the model of the company from which we want to buy.
– Cut
Taking into account the shapes of our bodies we must follow certain cuts; some will make us look more voluptuous, others will make us seem skinny. Thus, when choosing our clothes we will have to take care to create a balance between what we want to do and how much it seems normal to avoid being weird.
People with a wide basin will look for a cut that does not give the impression of exaggerated size, and skinny people will look for a cut that does not make them look even skinnier.
Why conform to normalcy?
Sometimes we would like to get over public opinion by pursuing our own goal in fashion; still, it will be very difficult for us to do so because public opinion will put pressure on our social life and psychological health in order to adapt to normalcy. Therefore, we will be forced to adapt to the normality in order to be agreed upon and welcomed by different groups of people and not to become the subject of bullying.
Do we have to change our wardrobe with each change in fashion?
The answer is no. The wardrobe will change when we want to change something in our style of clothing. But the main rule will be to make sure that the way we dress shows our ability to fit clothes and make a body look beautiful and not the other way around. For this, the new fashion trends will be followed; to learn new tricks and dressing ideas, not to change your wardrobe from year to year.
All the advice given in this article is available also for men. They must choose their clothes depending on what they want to put in value and what to hide.
P.S. We can buy all the new clothes in fashion, but if we don’t know how to arrange them we will look stupid and in bad taste. It is not the clothes that make us look beautiful but our ability to fit some clothes on our body.
