Everyone of us has certain ideas about the way
we dress and the way people should dress but has it ever occurred to
you that some ideas about fashion you currently have don't always apply?
Here are four ideas about fashion you might have got wrong.
1) The colors must always be similar;
Most times when picking out outfits, we try to male sure the colors all match up. Red pants have to go with red footwear. Or a black top with black shoes. Or your purse has to match the color of your skirt. Newsflash, people! You totally don't have to match up the colors all the time. While I'm certainly not asking you to wear more colours than Joseph's coat of many colors, it is a myth that colors that are not similar can't go together.
Ever heard of contrasts? That's when you have opposites, in this case, opposite colors. Like white and black. A lot of contrasting colors go pretty awesome together if you combine them well. Most contrasts complement each other. Think a light shade of a warm color with a dark shade of a cool color. Like warm red with navy blue. In the mind that looks ridiculous, but if you know how to properly pair colors, you could totally make it work.
Then there's what I like to call "the off color". This is a personal principle of mine. Most times when I dress, I make sure that I wear one item with a color that is completely off all the other colors I am putting. Now, I don't wear it in a ridiculous way, of course, but one huge advantage of an off color is that it usually calls attention to itself. So if there is a detail you want to call attention to in your outfit or something specific you want to show off, you might want to use an "off" color.
2) If it is not a name brand, it's not worth wearing;
Prada bags. Louboutins. Nike sneakers. Polo golfers. Audigier and Audemars Piguet wristwatches. Everyone is proud to wear name brands. To the point that to some, if you are not wearing a name brand, you are not fashionable.
*pours water on faces* Wake up if you've been believing that bucket of hogwash! Here's the thing; fashion is about appearances; how you look, not the brand name on the tag of what you are wearing. I could wear an original Nike tee and look like a tout from Oshodi but someone rocking an Addibbas ™ (lol) shirt could turn out looking like a million bucks. It's all about making what you have work for you. I know friends that have a lot of their clothes sewn by tailors and look absolutely fab in it while some sheeple rocking original name brands look at them enviously. There is absolutely nothing wrong in wearing name brands; heck they make you feel even more confident and cool and if you have it, feel completely free to flaunt it but, abeg, if you can't afford those, you don't have to go rob a bank. Just make sure you look awesome in what you have. After all, even on the red carpet, nobody will ask you for the receipt for what you are wearing.
3) You can't wear certain colors;
I was once out clothes shopping with a friend and I spotted an absolutely gorgeous T-shirt. He asked "do you want to buy that?" I answered "of course!". He looked at me funny and asked; "can't you see how pink it is? It looks so gay!"
Do you believe you can't wear certain colors? That's a lie from the pit of fashion hell! As I have pointed out before, fashion is about appearances. Wearing pink doesn't automatically make you look gay. In fact, there are ways you could rock black that would make you look gayer than someone in pink.
Don't let yourself be limited to certain colors because you feel they are "manly" or "lady-like" (depending on your sex). Either sex can rock any colour, from peach to violet and everything between and outside. It's not about the color you wear. It's about how you make it work.
4) If it worked for someone else, it will work for you;
Usually, when motivational speakers want to move you to do something, they tell you if something has worked for someone before, then it can work for you. That might very well hold true in broad life, but in fashion, not so much.
Doesn't it make you wonder how the "wizkid look" looks so good on Wizkid but makes half of those UNILAG guys (my apologies!) copying the outfit look like Frankenstein? Thing is, each of us have a different body structure and certain styles flatter our body while others make us look positively hideous. Now you might find someone with a similar body structure to Wizkid who the same style would totally not work for but find someone, say, bigger or smaller than Wizkid that would look absolutely stunning in the same outfit. Each person has a unique style of wearing outfits that could make them look awesome. It's all about finding a style that suits you, instead of just plagiarising celeb styles.
So there they are; four things you probably held wrong about fashion. You have been taught. Go and think wrong no more. Class dismissed!
http://zakuraweekly.com/whatever-wednesdays/fash-on-able/four-ideas-about-fashion-people-get-wrong/
1) The colors must always be similar;
Most times when picking out outfits, we try to male sure the colors all match up. Red pants have to go with red footwear. Or a black top with black shoes. Or your purse has to match the color of your skirt. Newsflash, people! You totally don't have to match up the colors all the time. While I'm certainly not asking you to wear more colours than Joseph's coat of many colors, it is a myth that colors that are not similar can't go together.
Ever heard of contrasts? That's when you have opposites, in this case, opposite colors. Like white and black. A lot of contrasting colors go pretty awesome together if you combine them well. Most contrasts complement each other. Think a light shade of a warm color with a dark shade of a cool color. Like warm red with navy blue. In the mind that looks ridiculous, but if you know how to properly pair colors, you could totally make it work.
Then there's what I like to call "the off color". This is a personal principle of mine. Most times when I dress, I make sure that I wear one item with a color that is completely off all the other colors I am putting. Now, I don't wear it in a ridiculous way, of course, but one huge advantage of an off color is that it usually calls attention to itself. So if there is a detail you want to call attention to in your outfit or something specific you want to show off, you might want to use an "off" color.
2) If it is not a name brand, it's not worth wearing;
Prada bags. Louboutins. Nike sneakers. Polo golfers. Audigier and Audemars Piguet wristwatches. Everyone is proud to wear name brands. To the point that to some, if you are not wearing a name brand, you are not fashionable.
*pours water on faces* Wake up if you've been believing that bucket of hogwash! Here's the thing; fashion is about appearances; how you look, not the brand name on the tag of what you are wearing. I could wear an original Nike tee and look like a tout from Oshodi but someone rocking an Addibbas ™ (lol) shirt could turn out looking like a million bucks. It's all about making what you have work for you. I know friends that have a lot of their clothes sewn by tailors and look absolutely fab in it while some sheeple rocking original name brands look at them enviously. There is absolutely nothing wrong in wearing name brands; heck they make you feel even more confident and cool and if you have it, feel completely free to flaunt it but, abeg, if you can't afford those, you don't have to go rob a bank. Just make sure you look awesome in what you have. After all, even on the red carpet, nobody will ask you for the receipt for what you are wearing.
3) You can't wear certain colors;
I was once out clothes shopping with a friend and I spotted an absolutely gorgeous T-shirt. He asked "do you want to buy that?" I answered "of course!". He looked at me funny and asked; "can't you see how pink it is? It looks so gay!"
Do you believe you can't wear certain colors? That's a lie from the pit of fashion hell! As I have pointed out before, fashion is about appearances. Wearing pink doesn't automatically make you look gay. In fact, there are ways you could rock black that would make you look gayer than someone in pink.
Don't let yourself be limited to certain colors because you feel they are "manly" or "lady-like" (depending on your sex). Either sex can rock any colour, from peach to violet and everything between and outside. It's not about the color you wear. It's about how you make it work.
4) If it worked for someone else, it will work for you;
Usually, when motivational speakers want to move you to do something, they tell you if something has worked for someone before, then it can work for you. That might very well hold true in broad life, but in fashion, not so much.
Doesn't it make you wonder how the "wizkid look" looks so good on Wizkid but makes half of those UNILAG guys (my apologies!) copying the outfit look like Frankenstein? Thing is, each of us have a different body structure and certain styles flatter our body while others make us look positively hideous. Now you might find someone with a similar body structure to Wizkid who the same style would totally not work for but find someone, say, bigger or smaller than Wizkid that would look absolutely stunning in the same outfit. Each person has a unique style of wearing outfits that could make them look awesome. It's all about finding a style that suits you, instead of just plagiarising celeb styles.
So there they are; four things you probably held wrong about fashion. You have been taught. Go and think wrong no more. Class dismissed!
http://zakuraweekly.com/whatever-wednesdays/fash-on-able/four-ideas-about-fashion-people-get-wrong/
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