The cornerstone of great style is confidence. When I talk about confidence, I mean feeling comfortable displaying your personality visually NOT showing off your body. Knowing what works for you is key to developing confidence. Sometimes it helps to get a different perspective.
If I have time, I like to try on the unexpected in the dressing room. After all, there is no investment required to try something on in the store. Sometimes I surprise myself! Something I never thought I could wear turns out to look right.
Then, if it fits and looks good in the fitting room, I step out. Most stores have a mirror, usually a three – way, outside the fitting room as well. We all kinda know to look at things from all angles; I wish to add the thought of looking at it from a distance, in “landscape”. Typically we see ourselves up close, in “portrait”, and can get accustomed even to seeing ourselves in looks less than flattering.
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It was seeing myself from down the hall in the locker room that caused me to get that I needed to move away from grey; seeing myself in the dance studio mirror showed me what to move toward: bright navy, warm purples, rosy tints, and white.
Have you ever had a wardrobe epiphany catching your reflection from a distance?
Don’t know about any epiphany but I do look at face-to-face distance and from about 6 to 10 feet away. One thing I always do is disregard how a print looks at reading distance and only look at it as it resolves at a a greater distance. If I want to pick up a color, then I often pick up the color some part of it resolves to, even though it’s illusionary.
Looking from a distance helps, too, with avoiding having print elements that are bigger than my palm or face size. Don’t think I currently own any like that but know it’s a weakness and this is how I rein it in.
I also do always look at the back view and the side view. And if I knew I was going to be sitting somewhere on full view, I”d want to scope out the seated view since everything enlarges and I don’t want to look as though I’m about to pop the buttons on my shirt or jacket.
That is a good idea about the print size. I just biffer a dress – without ever wearing it, I think – that had really big black flowers on an ivory ground, but there were hardly any. It wasn’t busy at all, but the flowers just seemed a little heavy. Pretty sure they were bigger than my whole head!