Perfecting Your Grind - Topic of the day 4/21/24
How do you practice dressing well: Do you just post fit until something hits and hone in on it? Do you solicit feedback first before wearing stuff outside? Do you use an app like MSPaint to mock up concepts before attempting them?
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I went out of my way to seek feedback for a long time. At this point i feel comfortable with how i dress so i only seek feedback if i feel out of my depth with a style or item
And i just try to dress to my inspo folder at this stage generally
If i were starting today id be blasting fits off in #styling-suggestions all the time
I put on clothes and then look in the mirror mostly
Am constantly browsing inspo sources. I also like to go visit places around town and people watch to get out of the internet bubble of opinions.
I'm still working on my personal wardrobe but it has come a long way in the last few years. I feel pretty good about my sense of style and judging my own fits. I'll probably start posting fit pics at some point soon ™️
Weeg’s advice is more specific but imo even folks with a really good eye can struggle to figure out why a fit does or doesn’t work. So the best approach is sometimes just “sorry champ, looks bad. Try again tomorrow.”
here's a video of how i do it-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw7-51qIgUU
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"Situation" from The Rules of Attraction (2002)
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in all seriousness, i am a person prone to overthinking and a lil' anxiety (i blame the adhd personally) and so for me the process of posting fits and wearing things out is to allay those feelings and to get better at internalizing the fact that i'm not bricking a fit even though it may feel like it
Yeah its important to decide whos advice you value too
while getting inspiration is a large part of how i do things, :post: :fit: is the more meaningful part of how i do things. typically if i hate it i don't post it, if i'm unsure i go to #styling-suggestions about the specific issue and if i'm okay with it or better, i post to #waywt, and i use the feedback (implicit or direct) to see what works or what doesn't
i started sketching ideas for fit battle (sketches maybe to come later), and while i don't think i would do this normally, it also helped to drum up ideas
Inspiration might sometimes provide a starting point. Or I've been brainstorming over how to use a piece. Then I put it on and look in the mirror. Thats the vibe check. Then I post fit. In general posting fit and getting feedback was the most important bit of my overall growth though, which I think is being missed a bit in this thread. My growth in dressing has been 80-90% tied to feedback (the remaining 10-20% is inspo, to hammer down exactly the vibes I want, plus give me new ideas of how to style things). Obviously I don't take feedback from anyone, but feedback in general is really good. Even just a lack of reacts can be a good reason to introspect on what about the fit is limiting you.
honestly? i’ve been drawing fits out lately. like, pencil to paper drawing. helps me work on my anatomy and also figure out what does and doesn’t go together well in my closet
For me its a very introspective process. I basically track what im wearing each day with an app to get a better feel for what I feel drawn to and that feel, well me. And then I try to understand what makes these things attractive to me and start building from there. Inspiration is nice, but sometimes I consciously have to just ignore inspo because some fits look great but they are not me. For me it is very much trying to express myself through clothing and working out who I am in that process.
Sorry, that sound terribly cheesy, I know.