The Friend Challenge

What good are friends if you can't use them in the journey to develop your style. Okay, so maybe they serve a greater purpose than that, but for the sake of this post, lets just say, "That's what friends are for". A few weeks after starting this blog I took my friend out to find out more about her style. We've known each other since our junior year of high school and I began to realize that I had no clue as to how she defined her own personal style. We are young women, so of course we've talked about clothes, but we have never talked about style. I figured that since I am on my a journey to pick up as many fashion tips and
inspirations as I can, I might as well pick up a few from the women that are right in my corner.


The Assignment

When I called her, I told her to pick out two outfits that best defines her. I had no idea she would wear them together. However, since I know her personality well, the outfit really seemed to work for her.

As she walked down the stairs to meet me I was highly intrigued on the outfits she chose. I had never considered a simple black dress with a neon colored jacket. She even topped it off with a leopard print batman cap. I needed to know more behind her creative design. Here is what she had to say.


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                      "My style really isn't complicated. But it's Loud." 

"It's Loud. loud eclectic and pretty simple"

"I really like the [black] dress and how it fits on me. Plus, it's like a sun dress, but I put the tights on to represent winter." 

"The jacket and it's color represent how I feel, it's lime green...it screams happy. The batman hat shows that I want to be batman today, I really want to be like that super hero!"

"Super hero, happy and just...comfortable"

"I'm not going to say that I am an expert on fashion, but I have a pretty good view, but my fashion is a little bit different from other peoples fashion."

"I want my style to grow."

-Sonya Chandler

Instagram: honeybb27

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Until talking with her, I had never actually thought about blending two styles together. However, When I really think about it, it's actually done all the time.


               What good are friends if they can't open your eyes to something new.

The Impressionable Mickey

Hi, my name is Whitney, and my style is impressionable. I am not ashamed. Although, I easily could have been after I  actually looked up the meaning of "impressionable" in the dictionary. It is defined as a person who is easily influenced because they do not have the knowledge to judge something critically. Well, darn. That defines my style to the exact 'T'. I have no idea what I am doing in this world of fashion, and I have no idea  how far I plan to go in my exploration of it. But I still feel the urge to explore it and I'm going to go with that. After a couple of moments, I got over the shock of  what I thought was a negative of having an impressionable style and I began to take great ownership of it. After all, some of the most beautiful artistic creations are inspired by something that truly impressed the artist. They took that impression and decorated it with their own individuality and creativity and I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

Two weeks ago, I went to Disneyland, and I found this instant desire to dress in the way of Mickey Mouse. No, not full on. Halloween does have it's purpose. Instead, I took my impression of Mr. Mickey's popular color scheme and headed straight to my closet. Of course I would have to add the hat for good measure.

I ended up wearing the red cardigan, black jeggings and the white sleeveless blouse on my trip and it proved to be very comfortable. 

How is your style impressionable?

Skirtfully Saved

I love fashion bloggers. I am in no way throwing myself into that pool of a amazing creators, but I am simply honoring those fashion gurus who inspire me entirely. I have written about her before, but now I am giving her another special shout out on this post as well. Jeanette Thwing from J's Every Day Fashion is a blogger who is great for that clueless developing stylist. A few months ago I was reading a post on her blog and she gave me the awesome idea to "skirt my dresses". Some of you may have already known about this trick, but I definitely did not, and I could not wait to put it into practice.

Over the years I have had this habit of collecting dresses that would be great for going out. One problem. I don't go out. So now, I am left with this assortment of dress that are way to short (even with leggings) to wear anywhere other than a night club. I was just beginning to think that they were lost causes until I read her blog post.



Whala!

I'd never thought I'd wear some of these dresses again, but now that I have a new way to style them...well...lets just say I can blow the dust off of them now.