While I’m cooking on the innovative approach Dressing Your Truth represents, perhaps a pictorial example or two are in order. To learn your “energy type”, read the book It’s Just My Nature!
A flat boot selection for each energy type:
1. light, upward movement
2. fluid, flowing movement
3. active, reactive movement
4. constant, still movement
BTW, see boot #1? Those are my newest footwear! They are Puma’s and my hero bought them for me (for $45) from an online liquidator. Light colored footwear is generally a no-no for me, as is a mid-calf height boot, but for whatever reason, and I’m sure it’s more complicated than energy movement, they work for me.
Any insights?
BTW, I have only worn them with dark jeans tucked into them.
Funny, from your previous post I,ve figured out my energy type is “fluid and flowing”… and this is exactly the type of boots I wear!!! I should read this book…
Then my first impression was correct, since #4 is the only one that wouldn’t make me recoil in horror if I saw it in the store. (No aspersions against your new pair – I(‘m talking about for me.)
JJP – when I told my “fluid and flowing” type daughter about this post, she said “gray suede scrunch boots, they make me happy!” or something to that effect. 🙂 Thanks for leaving a comment!
Mella – No offense taken. 😉 I’m glad you sort of identify with the 4 type, that doesn’t surprise me. And I really surprised myself with those boots: I decided on them in less than a minute! And I am finding them to be a real favorite, so I’m really glad I got them. I just love that we can all have our own look and I’m enjoying getting a little more personalized with mine. 🙂
well, this has been helpful to me in a backwards kind of way. 🙂 I used to wear a lot of
boho romantic clothing until I got sick of it. Had a passion for those slouchy, scrunchy boots, though never did actually own any. I now realize I don’t want them anymore at all. Want something more definite. The only energy I know I’m not is #2. Hey, it’s someplace to start, rejecting everything that seems two-ish to me. No wonder I wince at Eileen Fisher.
My problem, I think, is that I admire alot of that gentle-looking, flowy stuff. But I never feel right in it. It always messes me up when I try to just “go with what I like”. I need to get better at recognizing my personal “no”s; this helps.
The other problem is that, somehow, if people catch the slightest whiff of slow, detail personality from me, I get treated in ways I don’t appreciate. Mainly, I get asked, or just expected, to do alot of what I call “moving chairs”; that is, “anybody can do it” physical labor. Not that I’m above working, just if you think that’s all I have to contribute …
Yup, I’m a four for sure. Those are the only ones that look like “me.”