Stylish Styling Rules?
How to create your own Chanel-Style.
“The Lady’s got style”
Style, Styling, Stylish. Yes, we want it. We want to have style. We want people to refer us as having style. We want to be great in styling and we want to look amazing stylish (with our beloved Chanel Inspired Jacket…)
What are we actually talking about?
Wikipedia: Style is a manner of doing or presenting things. Style may refer to Style (visual arts), in art and painting Architectural style, the features that make a building or structure historically identifiable Design, the process of creating something Fashion, a prevailing mode of clothing styles.
Loud and clear. But it still does not say anything and it does not connect with our world of experience.
Let’s pretend a beautiful or an attractive lady is passing by in the street. She seems self-assured, looks above average neat, fashionable or striking and you can clearly see ; she does not need your or someone else's approval. She knows about it or does not even care about what others think about her. She is content with herself and her life.
We are thinking immediately: "The lady's got style.” We are looking at her. Everybody is looking at her. In an enviable way not in a disapproving way. Why are we thinking like that? It is not only because of her clothes or her beauty. That's all very subjective. We might love a conservative style or we hate it. We might love fashionatas or we think they exaggerate. It is not in the details. (although every brand or every magazine makes us want to believe that).
It is the total picture.The way she walks, her appearance and attitude. Style is manner of doing or presenting things. In this case, the lady is presenting herself. Style is a popular idiom of meaning depending on the context. It is a complementary idiom that means the lady has her own unique way or she passes by in an unexpected way. It is positive.
When a (homeless) lady is walking in the streets with her whole life in a shopping cart, we do not want to see her at all or a woman who barely stands out, the first thought that would occur to you, would NOT be: “She’s got style” in case you even notice her. It is shameful but the truth. We like to see people who are confident in life, who express something positive and who participate in our society. We only see what we want to see.
Note that self-esteem does not have to turn into arrogance. We do not like arrogant people. "She has an attitude" is something completely different. It is not a nice lady and we do not admire her negative behavior at all....
We actually look at the Stylish lady because we want to be her, and we are able to be her. She does not present a complete unattainable dream but we might be able to copy here style by wearing the same clothes, the same sun-glasses or maybe just the same lipcolor. By copying her; perhaps we also have a little more confidence in ourselves and the world. Thats why we look at her just a little bit longer and we appreciate her appearance. Words like Attractive and impressive quality also comes to mind. And originality. She might look unique because she is wearing a hard pink coat with green boots or the opposite: business-style neat and clean. Stylish sounds sophisticated and expensive. It does not have to be expensive or exclusive. It is all about her originality and her appearance. Maybe her clothes are no-brand cheap clothes or she makes everything herself. (That's probably the reason it all fits so well......) Whatever; She's got style.
So, now we know a bit more about style. It is more related to a certain appearance than to (be able to buy) expensive clothing.
My mother learned me some rules in live about clothes. For instance, some colors really do not match. Or you should not wear some colors at all; she hated turquoise and purple because it is making you look cheap and campy. It used to be a color that you only saw in the gym or on the campsite during a holiday. The combinations; light-blue combined with red.... Nooo. “Mother (grandma) would turn around in her grave", she said when somebody was wearing a red shirt on a light-blue pants. And then there were also many rules about the length of skirts, the wearing of shorts or types of panties that were or were not possible to wear in a formal situation.
But those days are gone. Everybody is wearing everything and (almost) everything is acceptable.*
Walking around in sportswear? Everybody does it. Wearing home-wear on a casual friday or the whole weekend? No problem at all. Wearing jeans which are torn to the bone or transparent clothing, gothic style or sex-industry party-clothes down the streets? Nobody will be shocked.
We all want to have our own style and we want to have a great style.
We could make a list with rules on this website. Rules about what to wear and what not to wear. Rules about the right colors, the right matching colors and rules about combinations of garments that works or should not be considered at all. But maybe we need to have just a little bit more self-esteem to be convinced about ourselves and stop comparing ourselves with others.
We only have one rule: create your own style. Whatever it might be. A Chanel jacket light-blue with red fringes (oh please..... do not do it), but what if you like the idea? Just go for it. Wear it on an ugly jeans or a conservative long skirt. Whatever YOU like. We are sure you will walk down the streets and people will turn their heads and think: Wow, the lady’s got style !
* = in our culture; cultural aspects are not taken into consideration in this article.
“The Lady’s got style”
Style, Styling, Stylish. Yes, we want it. We want to have style. We want people to refer us as having style. We want to be great in styling and we want to look amazing stylish (with our beloved Chanel Inspired Jacket…)
What are we actually talking about?
Wikipedia: Style is a manner of doing or presenting things. Style may refer to Style (visual arts), in art and painting Architectural style, the features that make a building or structure historically identifiable Design, the process of creating something Fashion, a prevailing mode of clothing styles.
Loud and clear. But it still does not say anything and it does not connect with our world of experience.
Let’s pretend a beautiful or an attractive lady is passing by in the street. She seems self-assured, looks above average neat, fashionable or striking and you can clearly see ; she does not need your or someone else's approval. She knows about it or does not even care about what others think about her. She is content with herself and her life.
We are thinking immediately: "The lady's got style.” We are looking at her. Everybody is looking at her. In an enviable way not in a disapproving way. Why are we thinking like that? It is not only because of her clothes or her beauty. That's all very subjective. We might love a conservative style or we hate it. We might love fashionatas or we think they exaggerate. It is not in the details. (although every brand or every magazine makes us want to believe that).
It is the total picture.The way she walks, her appearance and attitude. Style is manner of doing or presenting things. In this case, the lady is presenting herself. Style is a popular idiom of meaning depending on the context. It is a complementary idiom that means the lady has her own unique way or she passes by in an unexpected way. It is positive.
When a (homeless) lady is walking in the streets with her whole life in a shopping cart, we do not want to see her at all or a woman who barely stands out, the first thought that would occur to you, would NOT be: “She’s got style” in case you even notice her. It is shameful but the truth. We like to see people who are confident in life, who express something positive and who participate in our society. We only see what we want to see.
Note that self-esteem does not have to turn into arrogance. We do not like arrogant people. "She has an attitude" is something completely different. It is not a nice lady and we do not admire her negative behavior at all....
We actually look at the Stylish lady because we want to be her, and we are able to be her. She does not present a complete unattainable dream but we might be able to copy here style by wearing the same clothes, the same sun-glasses or maybe just the same lipcolor. By copying her; perhaps we also have a little more confidence in ourselves and the world. Thats why we look at her just a little bit longer and we appreciate her appearance. Words like Attractive and impressive quality also comes to mind. And originality. She might look unique because she is wearing a hard pink coat with green boots or the opposite: business-style neat and clean. Stylish sounds sophisticated and expensive. It does not have to be expensive or exclusive. It is all about her originality and her appearance. Maybe her clothes are no-brand cheap clothes or she makes everything herself. (That's probably the reason it all fits so well......) Whatever; She's got style.
So, now we know a bit more about style. It is more related to a certain appearance than to (be able to buy) expensive clothing.
My mother learned me some rules in live about clothes. For instance, some colors really do not match. Or you should not wear some colors at all; she hated turquoise and purple because it is making you look cheap and campy. It used to be a color that you only saw in the gym or on the campsite during a holiday. The combinations; light-blue combined with red.... Nooo. “Mother (grandma) would turn around in her grave", she said when somebody was wearing a red shirt on a light-blue pants. And then there were also many rules about the length of skirts, the wearing of shorts or types of panties that were or were not possible to wear in a formal situation.
But those days are gone. Everybody is wearing everything and (almost) everything is acceptable.*
Walking around in sportswear? Everybody does it. Wearing home-wear on a casual friday or the whole weekend? No problem at all. Wearing jeans which are torn to the bone or transparent clothing, gothic style or sex-industry party-clothes down the streets? Nobody will be shocked.
We all want to have our own style and we want to have a great style.
We could make a list with rules on this website. Rules about what to wear and what not to wear. Rules about the right colors, the right matching colors and rules about combinations of garments that works or should not be considered at all. But maybe we need to have just a little bit more self-esteem to be convinced about ourselves and stop comparing ourselves with others.
We only have one rule: create your own style. Whatever it might be. A Chanel jacket light-blue with red fringes (oh please..... do not do it), but what if you like the idea? Just go for it. Wear it on an ugly jeans or a conservative long skirt. Whatever YOU like. We are sure you will walk down the streets and people will turn their heads and think: Wow, the lady’s got style !
* = in our culture; cultural aspects are not taken into consideration in this article.
