Introspection

I didn't realize it had been 3 years since I was on here last. I was thinking that every spring I get on this kick that I'm going to be more fashionable and pretty, but I guess it isn't EVERY spring. Anyway.

So I've gotten on a kick about being more fashionable, and I remembered that this blog was following a bunch of fashion-type people from last time I went on a kick about fashion. And this time I found some more blogs to follow, and I discovered pinterest. Woo hoo! Ha. One of the new blogs I've been reading is YouLookFab, and she has a series about defining your personal style and style goals here http://youlookfab.com/2012/01/09/describing-your-style-persona/. So rather than just pick things I pinned on pinterest and try to copy them (I personally think that Sunday I did pretty good, yesterday and today not so much), I'd see what I could do to follow her series.

So the first one is about describing your current personal style, and then what you want your style to be. She says to write down five to ten adjectives for each list.

Oh, by the way, if you're one of my two followers and you've gotten this far, thank you for taking the time to do so, but you needn't feel obligated to continue. Unless you just want to, because you're bored or masochistic or something. I guess I'm saying I obviously don't care if you keep reading, because I *am* writing this on a blog after all, but I'm warning you it will be boring.

Anwyay, without further ado:

My current style

I really have two different styles, or at least two different "uniforms" - summer, and winter. In the summer, I generally wear plain, solid-color work pants, mostly black, a black turtleneck, and a sweater. In the summer, I still usually wear solid color pants or capris, and a "statement" top; or sometimes a pattered skirt, usually a broomstick skirt, and one of my few plain solid black t-shirts or a tank and sweater. But I think that both my summer "uniform" and my winter "uniform" have a lot of commonalities. I think.

• Safe (I was originally going to put "uninspired")
• My favorite colors
• Shapeless (again, I was originally going to put "fat clothes")
• the casual side of Business Casual
• Uncoordinated
• Tomboy

The style to which I aspire

This one is harder. Not because I don't know what I want - I do. I just like several different styles. Walking through stores, it's the punk and the goth that grab me first, the ones that I really want to buy, but then my sense of what I can wear to work - and to be honest, what I would be comfortable wearing to work - sets in and I get something safe again. Back when I started thinking about style, one of the first things I wanted to update was my hair. I did - I got it cut short - but the haircut I liked was Madame Hooch from the Harry Potter movies. Specifically, the haircut and overall look that Madame Hooch had in the first movie, when Harry is learning to ride a broom for the first time. Granted, she had robes on, but I imagined her as being wonderfully classy and scarily competent, which are also things I would like my style to say about me. So we will start with those, and see what else I can come up with.

• Confident
• Competent
• Dressier side of Business Casual
• Pulled together
• My favorite colors - earth tones
• Tomboy

The style I do NOT want

OK, one more of her suggestions before I head off to bed. She suggested making a list of what you do NOT want your style to be. That one is pretty easy.

• Frilly or girly
• Overly modern
• Over done
• Big money or blue blood
• Frumpy
• Too young for my age

Ok, enough naval gazing for one night. I'm going to head off to bed, though I still have at lest this much more stuff running around in my head. Maybe I'll actually make more than one post this time :)