FASHIORAMA
with Vee
You often find the fashion freaks that wouldn’t be found dead on the streets looking A-okay!
“The color of your belt should if not a must, correspond with the color of your shoes”.
Weird
how you find those of who claim not care a piece about fashion yet fuss
over a guy on the street wearing a pair of suit pants with a paired of multicolored sneakers on a Monday morning!
Really, now I FUSS over that
too! Or you find those who also claim not to be “fashion conscious” but
wouldn’t show up anywhere in public in a flared top and a flared skirt
as they know that they’d end up looking like a huge bird with no wings.
That’s when it hits you that “the probability of you bumping into people
you know when having a “bad fashion week” is super high!” – One of the
gravity laws Newton totally forgot, don’t you think?
And yeah, we all have our fashion moods each week but I go by “dress-to-impress” any day. Why? The answer is simple; Confidence!
Ever
wonder how your days vary to each other considering the outfits you
wear on a daily basis? Never bothered? It’s time to pay attention.
Say
for instance, you’re trying to catch someone’s attention who works
close to your place of work. You feel confident to say hi whenever you
bump into each other over lunch at the restaurant around the corner
(when you’re feeling perfect in your attire), and terribly dread the
thought of meeting this same person when you’re not “perfectly” dressed.
Well. Don’t get me wrong. Am not trying to make you squash yourself
into a nut shell, but here are some of the tips that would boost your
confidence via Fashiorama with Vee any day!
1. Attires say a lot about you:
You know what they say about food and people; you are what you eat? Well, I say, “you are what you wear” too.
Clothes say a lot about you including your accessories, your hair,
nails and yes, SHOES! Trust you me; the moment you have your confidence
boosted, the inner beauty blooms out effortlessly because of the way you
feel outside. You’re able to flash genuine smiles at people and step
out of your shy side and face each day head-on.
2. Attires speak to people:
Believe
it or not, attires could get you hired of fired…well, depending on the
job up for grabs. Imagine dressing in a super short but BEAUTIFUL skirt
suit with the top showing the rest of your world to a Sales and
Marketing job interview. The 10million dollar question would then be;
between the company and your bodily assets, which ones would you be out
there selling?
On
the other hand, if you wore this same outfit to a managerial job in a
night club or some fly restaurant, I bet you, you’d have a different
feedback as compared to the result of the latter. Figure this out and
know what to wear the next time you’re heading for a job interview. It
would also apply to the men with weird sense of style. It must be
something about them being fashion disasters (no offense), with no sense
of color and an abnormal love for jeans and woodies.
Call me J!
3. You are not what you wear??
Really
now? Of course India Arie, the singer, sang that song and got you
thinking that you really aren’t what you wear, huh? Come on. Come to
think about it; if you dress pretty sloppy and out of touch with
yourself, it would give anyone the impression that you don’t care how
you look like on the streets, at work or at school all in the name of
“you aren’t what you wear and you don’t care what people think”! Well,
let’s see if this doesn’t get you fired or gets your lecturer thinking
that you must be a part of some terrorist gang and call the FBI on you!
Simply
put, people don’t take you seriously if you dress in a manner that
would make them want t buy what you’re selling…not literally of course.
Well,
literally speaking, of course you’re NOT what you wear. But
figuratively, we all know my theory applies. Just because you are able
to walk in town in you flip-flops, a T-shirt, and the tiniest shorts in
your wardrobe doesn’t make you a “simple guy/girl” fashion wise. It
screams a word I wouldn’t bring myself to write here.
Whatever
happened to plain pair of denim jeans, a plain colored T-shirt and
plain colored sneakers, if “simplicity” is what you want to portray!
Don’t you fuss over grown up men walking the streets in broad day light
in their inner vests? Would they handle it if ladies started showing up
in public in their push-up bras with their boobs looking like their
butts on the chests (depending on the boob sizes)?
4. Have you signature look:
People
please! Having your signature look doesn’t need any Lois Vuitton, jimmy
Choo, Prada, D&G, and Gucci (the list goes on…), to have you
looking like an A-Lister. Be THE trendsetter. Play around with the
colors in your wardrobe and come up with a new look everyday.
You
don’t really have to go all red carpet on yourself to be a trendsetter
by copying the celebrities you see on TV. Let them rather be your
fashion inspirations but don’t be seen wearing every look-alike outfits
of Kim Kardashian or Usher everyday. Spontaneity baby!
The secret is to use what you already have in your wardrobe to get heads turning your direction.
Take
for instance, almost every for ladies out of every five on the streets
wear pants/trousers. Why not go skirts or dresses then and just work it?
For
guys, find out what works for you; half casuals or just fully casuals,
old-school, hats, caps, skinny jeans, buggy jeans, etc…
Nothing
creeps me out like a guy wearing a brown belt and a pair of white
leather shoes. Guys please; the color of your belt should if not a must,
correspond with the color of your shoes. Thank you!
5. Be modest: Sexy, not Trashy.
It
is one thing to dress in sexy outfits and it’s totally a different
story to dress and end up trashy. Without being judgmental, sexy is
accommodated at any time of the day but trashy can only survive in your
boyfriend’s bedroom when you decide to be naughty on a Friday night.
Expose less
When
you dress sexy, you know better than to expose “everything”, yet when
you dress trashy, it shows that you nothing about the science of the
mind on how one attracts pleasant attention when they keep people
guessing than when they leave nothing that makes people wonder what lies
beneath that cheeky slit on their dress.
The science
Sexy
would expose your legs and thighs, enough cleavage and arms to show
off. This keeps anybody curious to know what’s more beneath all the
reserved areas. But when you expose your legs, thighs, arms, back,
cleavage and the like, you end up giving way too much candy to
undeserving eyes. Remember, sexy and modest screams “Ooh-la-la +
Respect”. Trashy on the other side would scream statements like, “am
desperate for sexual attention (and it doesn’t matter from whom I get
it)”.
6. Use the days of the week:
This couldn’t be rocket science!
Let Monday be a no-joke-day but keep it sexy.
Tuesdays are
meant to be the “yeah-my-blue-Monday-was-yesterday” days. So create the
look that says that you are approachable today since you weren’t
yesterday as you were having a presentation at work, being a Monday.
Wednesday is
a mid-week day and the countdown to the weekend starts here too. The
best of us like to drop somewhere for a drink or two with colleagues
after work on Wednesdays. So wearing something that would easily turn
into a “club-look” later in the day wouldn’t be a bad idea. Wear a pair
of high waist pants with suspenders plus killer heals. This totally
rocks!
Thursdays are
kind of dull and busy most of the times as there’s loads to do at work
as the week draws to an end, but a simple fitting skirt and a sleeved
top in wedge heels would do the trick.
Fridays,
wow, for most people, you’re allowed to show up at work in half-casual
attires. So why not use that sort a sleek pair of skinny jeans you own
and complete the look in stilettos or killer heeled pumps, a collard but
sleeveless top and a cute blazer to wrap up the week? After all, you
are bound to end up somewhere funky with the girls/boys after work and
you don’t want to look like you just walked out of a choir practice from
church into the club.
For the weekends,
well, let’s just say that I suspect that you’ll be warming each other’s
beds and are likely to stay indoors. In whoever’s house you end up
after the frenzy Friday night, I guess it suffices to assume that you’d make do with his buggy shirt or her towel would do till Sunday evening!
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