Styling Clothes - Topic of the day 10/10/24
Tucked or untucked? Buttoned or unbuttoned? Cuffed or not? What are some of your preferred methods of styling clothes/accessories? How much of an impact is solely from styling vs item choice/pairing?
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You can make a cool outfit with mid clothes and good styling but good clothes and mid styling don’t make a good outfit
The clothes are just the ingredients, styling is the cooking
Sometimes you can just put good ingredients together and it’s solid, like a caprese salad
But if you just throw a bunch of fancy ingredients together, more often than not it’s gonna taste like shit
I don't think i gave styling enough credit, im still relatively new to this whole thing and I think i can put together a decent fit but i still kinda feel like im just putting stuff on, and not really styling pieces as much as i could be to make fits more interesting/ unique.
i think pinrolls should come back
I feel like I'm in the same boat here. Styling is where I'm currently struggling, and I think for me, part of it isn't necessarily lack of clothing but both lack of accessories and not enough attention to tailoring that can give an outfit that real oomph.
But to stick more to the topic, I'm digging the tuck at the moment. Just feels good.
I swung wildly from, i wont tuck anything too everything should be tucked and im trying to even out
Honestly I think styling something simply is very nice and can look better than something with a lot of layers
A lot of people think styling is about maximalism or adding things but it’s more about wearing things that maximize the theme or proportions you want to project
this is such a good analogy
I've never been called a caprese salad before
styling is when you undo the bottom button on your shirt
i wore a hoodie jeans n vans today and it's one of my fav outfits in a good while 😭
I think this is spot on and something I struggle with pretty often. It's tempting to put on a bunch of nice clothes and hope for the best but I've often ended up with fits that feel less than the sum of their parts because there was no idea behind the fit. Styling to me is figuring out what role each part play in the full outfit
Uh oh
IM COOKED
I generally dress well, but not necessarily styled well. It's become more of an interest of mine, but there are many areas I need to learn more about and just be OK experimenting with and having a fail. Mixing textures comes to mind as an example.
Big fan of tucking. Untucked just rarely clicks for me, if ever. Though maybe I should get myself some really oversized shirts to do some untucked experiments...
Every time this comes up I imagine what it must be like to be a trans woman reading these conversations
Yeah. I always have to keep myself from making a pun about it.
there's a Silence of the lambs scene about this
now you see why i'm so enthusiastic about having SOMETHING that makes the "if this flag offends you i'll help you pack" line with the trans flag. it's just funnier that way
more seriously and more on-topic
guilty as charged with interpreting styling as adding more accessories basically willy-nilly. but it's mostly because i can't seem to get a jacket/overshirt that i tie around my waist to stay around my waist
Holy fuck I am literally just getting this now LMAO
I’m a goddamn idiot
LMAO
tbh as far as that shirt goes i might get like. a trans flag bandana to pair with it
Styling related: I used to be the biggest proponent of cuffing jeans and now I so infrequently do it that it feels weird when I do. Stacks and pooling is where it’s at. And forget hemming jeans. Sinful. Vile.
(I’m tall, short people get a pass on this one)
short ppl when they don't hem their jean
Sick as fuck?
truuuuu
Wait, I take my jeans to the tailor to get them hemmed. What's wrong with that?
Nerd
I prefer my pants hemmed in a way were they either break just slightly or hang clean. Especially when they are flared - puddeling flares just don't scratch that same mental itch.
I blame Ethan / theteenagegentleman for that.
Wow, solid analogy!
Like the stack and hate the heel bite. Hard to get the perfect length