Comments | cjtremlett: What's your style?

cjtremlett

What's your style?

Jun 30, 2011 18:25

I had a conversation the other day that included talking about our sense of style in what we wear, and when we started wearing it, and such type stuff. I didn't really develop my own sense of style until junior or senior year in college.

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mamculuna July 1 2011, 00:05:45 UTC

Sometimes I wear something and somebody says, "That's so you!" and I haven't been aware of having a style. It's somewhere between laid-back and slightly hippie, I guess.

cjtremlett July 1 2011, 04:39:23 UTC

I'm pretty much hippy. I like comfortable clothes!

je_reviens July 1 2011, 00:28:25 UTC

See now your poll doesnt include me too much. I cant afford my style. Given the coice I would wear Prada head to toe daily. with Louboutins. But I end up shopping at Walmart instead *siiiiiigh*

My preferred style is super chic and elegant and preferrably unique things that no one else but me can wear :)
But I dont have the money or the closet space.

I still remember flying to my internship at the Smithsonian wearing a hot pink silk dress, black stilletto pumps, and a little matching hot pink hat. I believe in college I actually owned and wore a hot pink pillbox hat with a veil to match that dress!

Working in the Loop everyday, I see so many fabulous outfits. And shoes!!! great shoes!

cjtremlett July 1 2011, 04:30:43 UTC

Yeah, there is the "style you would wear" vs the "style you can afford" issue! But you have such a great sense of what to wear and what suits you. I envied that a bit back in our college days!

je_reviens July 1 2011, 05:35:56 UTC

What a nice thing to say! thank you!

I gave up on style for several years as I gained weight and worked all day in a basement where no one saw what I wore. But now Im trying to get my style back a little. I figure I can still try and look like I CARE what Im wearing even if whats in style these days is beyond me. And I am so happy to have a good tbrift store near me.

cjtremlett July 1 2011, 05:39:53 UTC

Be yourself and have fun with it, rather than worrying about what's in style. What's in style rarely seems to be flattering to anyone above a size two anymore, anyway. Your own style is more flattering to you than whatever anyone else says is in! Good thrift stores can be fabulous!

embroiderama July 1 2011, 00:42:52 UTC

My college self would roll her eyes at me much of the time for making such terrible clothing choices, but at the same time I mainly like the same stuff. I'm just way less concerned with looking cool. LOL

OTOH, I no longer wear the long empire waist dresses that, much as I love them, don't do me any favors. I sometimes miss those dress + leggings + combat boots days.

cjtremlett July 1 2011, 04:32:04 UTC

Empire waist dresses look good on me. And I love them. Never did the combat boots, though!

embroiderama July 1 2011, 04:37:59 UTC

That early 90's flowered-dress-with-combat-boots look was my favorite. ;)

lioness_79 July 1 2011, 04:04:41 UTC

I'm a roll of bed, grab the first pair of clean jeans and t-shirt I can find and yank my hair into a ponytail kind of girl.

Except when my daughter is being bossy and decides I need to be a "princess" and I end up in one of the, two, sundresses I own lol...anyone in a dress is a "princess" in her world.

cjtremlett July 1 2011, 04:37:14 UTC

I can just picture her ordering you around!

lioness_79 July 1 2011, 12:08:20 UTC

She has a bossy streak just like her mama! It usually starts as a question, "Mama, you want to be a princess with me?" When I say I don't want to be a princess it becomes, "Mama, you DO want to be a princess!" and she'll find and point to, or grab if it's reachable, one of my dresses and insist I wear it.

It's actually pretty cute most days, but some days she just gets told that the dress is dirty (whether it is or not) because I want my jeans! lol