withalex

I’m going to guide you trough some (hopefully) easy tips for you guys that maybe are struggling to find or identify your style. I have to mention that I’m not an expert in this by any means, but I know how hard it can be and I just wanna share from my experiene and thoughts.

 Pinterest / style icon

Most of us have pinterest and maybe also created a board of outfits we love. Go through that board, can you tell a pattern of your saved looks? If I just go back to mine, there’re a lot of denim, blazers,  nude, black, white and almost no colours. And I actually do have an style icon who I admire so much, in every way: Anine Bing. She always looks flawless and put together so when I lack inspiration, I always go to her instapage. This doesn’t mean that I have to buy something that she wears, she gives me inspo that I bring back to my own closet, sometimes it can be as easy as denim, t-shirt and a blazer paired with ankle boots. Anyway, this is a great way to start,  but if you don’t have either pinterest or a style icon, ask a friend or a family member what they think your style is.

Choose ten items in your closet.

Your favourites, those pieces are the core of your closet and those items are very important in the next step. A tip is to pick classic pieces (classic according to you) and not very trendy at the moment pieces. Trends come and goes, and they go very fast so stick to your classic favourites. And it can be a bag as much as it can be a blouse! You can of course incoperate trends into your wardrobe, you should, but don’t let them be the base. But most important(!!) you have to feel comftroble and good in it.

Declutter

Now the hard part starts, you have to get rid of clothes to stick to what you now have identified is your style. I’m sure as it was for me, you have a lot of ’’short lovestory’’ buy(s). Again it can be a very trendy piece, that maybe isn’t trendy at all anymore, but ofc if you love that piece that was trendy six months ago and you wear it alot, by all means keep it!!  That’s kind of the idea, that the pieces you keep in your wardrobe is the pieces you love and will wear over and over.

So put all emotions aside and start to declutter. Any hesitation, put it in the give away pile or if you’re very unsure in a maybe pile and go back to it later. When you do this, try out different looks and take mirrorselfies for future referenses when you don’t know what to wear, inspire yourself!!

What according to you are your must-have pieces?

What can you not live without? Is it a leather jacket, sneakers or maybe a floral dress, either way write it down, and hopefully you already have alot of the pieces, maybe not all so therefore, you know what to look for and spend your money on. If you are tempted to buy something that is not on your list, you will most likley wear it very little and that’s not very good for your wallet or the enviorment. So stick to the list and I promise you that you will love your pieces for a long time.

The details makes your signature style.

Details can be accesorizing (don’t know the right spelling on that one) and it can also be a certain colour, or colours, maybe you’re the opposite to me and love to wear colours, I would say that’s a signature style. Since my style is very basic I try to make it more me in jewllery, and I often wear the same jewllery in periods so I always feels that it brings ’’Alex’’ to my look. Shoes and handbags is also a great way to tell others about your personal style.

And the last tip from me today is when you’ve done all those steps, invite your girls over for prosecco and have a change-clothes-with-eachother-night. The items that are left can be given to charity.

 I hope that those tips will come handy to you some day and that you feel good about yourself when dressing in the morning. The worst feeling is when you don’t feel comftroble in what you wear!

 xx Alex