How To Dress Smart for Smarter you


There are many of us who just flick through the fashion magazines while appreciating the new styles and fashion along the way. But not all of us go out and invest in those dresses and styles.

Typically, people tend to invest in only those clothes which appeals to ones innate senses. Not all take time out to reflect back on why we choose the kind of clothes that we do. In fact, to dress right and smart is a more complicated process than just putting different clothing pieces together.

Now, normally one’s dressing habit is not always influenced by the job role or function one performs in the society. It is often influenced by what we normally experience and see and feel in our day to day life. Our first exposure is our own family that we grow up in. Our family influences our dressing sense and makes it either liberal or orthodox.

Experts say that our dressing sense is influenced by our upbringing, but only till a certain age. Gradually, however, as we start moving out, we get more exposure. Thus, we give up our inhibitions and start wearing what we feel suits our present lifestyle and is appropriate. And as we grow older and start making our own decisions, our dressing sense evolves. This is when we begin to wear things that we feel makes us look good and also helps us to gel in with our peers.

For a woman, dressing up and looking good is not just style and fashion, it is also a lot about them growing up and blossoming their individual self. Often, for a girl, dress sense also involves a lot of parental guidance. It is only after she is married or when she is on her career path that she develops her own individual style and dress sense.

It is no doubt important to develop your own individual dress sense. But at the same time you need to make sure that your dress sense is not so drastic that you end up inviting criticism for it. To have a successful dress sense, you only need to develop a style statement without standing out as a unique being altogether. Now achieving this balance in your dressing is not easy and you have to strive hard for it.

It is one’s growing up years that decides whether your dress sense is liberal or orthodox. But today, with increasing awareness, women have taken up dress sense and style as their weapon of attraction. One’s dress sense is normally influenced by the surrounding peer pressure and also ones need to attract others. With more exposure and confidence, women also tend to bring in a sexual element to their clothing.

In short, one’s dress sense is all about developing one’s individual sense of worth and also a feeling of self confidence.

Thus, dress sense is not only about your physical senses. But it also incorporates the deeper emotional responses which are not universal. So, let your inhibitions go and wear your heart as you fancy.