Figuring Out Your Style
With Awoniyi Adedolapo
In today's wotld of fashion and trend, while a substantial amount of people just wear what the trend says, some people still let their personality come into play which in turn affects what they wear, and that is what I call having a sense of style.
Your personality is your organising principle, it propels you on the path of life, it represents the orderly arrangement of all your attributes. Thoughts, feelings, attitudes, behaviours are coping mechanism. It is the distinctive pattern of your functioning, the way you think, feel, dress, behave, that defines who you are. Style is a comfortable and elegant mode of existence ; the way in which something is said, done, expressed or performed ; the combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution; perfomance characterising a particular person, group, school or era; a particular fashion; to design; fashion in a certain way.
Style is a very personal thing. It has nothing to do with trends, imitation. I say "show me your style and I will tell you who you are". "The difference between style and fashion is quality". - Giorgio Armani.
It is very cool to be trendy but too much of trend just shows a lack of an original sense of style and perhaps not every trend out there will be suitable for your personality. You should dress the way you want people to relate with you and I do not necessarily mean dress in an overly sophisticated way, you don't want to be viewed as unapproachable but at the same time you don't want to be viewed as "easy to approach".
Definitely, the way you dress is the way you are going to be addressed, but stay true to yourself all the time. The only way to find your own personal style is discover yourself and what you stand for, this goes on to dictate your sense of style. "Don't be into trends, don't make fashion own you, instead, you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live" Gianni Versace.
"Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak" - Rachel Zoe. "Fashion can be bought, style one must possess" - Edna Woman Chase.
You must be thinking, how on earth will I be stylish with my low income? I hear