Drastic changes in style - Topic of the day 4/29/25
Have you ever had a drastic change in style? What advice would you give to those who want to change styles? What was the driving force for your huge change?
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for me a big change was when i decided i never wanted to tuck my shirt in again. this actually has locked me out of a lot of more classic wonenswear which relies on waist emphasis. i think that’s why im buying so many funky shirts now
Funky shirt maxxing
I have like a million hoodies and graphic tees but I've grown so sick and tired of them. I feel like they really enabled me to be a bit lazier when getting dressed. This year I am going to endeavor to branch out a bit more and get rid of a lot of my hoodies lmao
I used to dress southern prep in college :xd: I started wearing all black when I started a job adjacent to fashion and have slowly started reincorporating color back into my wardrobe
my big change came shortly after joining this discord ^^ i decided if i was gonna keep doing jeans and t-shirts that it was going to have to become an intentional look, and so i whittled through a lot of my shirts, filtering prints with an iron fist. so now i’ve been chasing more of a skater angle compared to the no-thoughts-head-empty version of streetwear that most people wear
oh and then i got into camp collars
i haven’t been the same since
my summer resolution is new short and more camp collar
all roads lead to camp collar
yus
i’m hoping that i can find a decent selection again
need to see southern prep era adime
I was black t-shirt-black jean-black sneaker pilled before and during the pandemic and now...am not lol
i could not imagine you wearing nothing but black
you’re too whimsical
The best advice I could give is to trust your instincts and explore those feelings, even if its against your current place/social standing in life
mid 2023; if it was warmer i wore a t-shirt and if it was colder i wore a black parka and sweater
crazy
it feels like i’m looking at a clone
your evil clone
I think I started out my fashion journey pretty Ivy-pilled which is a result of getting into it through :derek: and eventually realized that my heart was somewhere else, specifically at flared pants and pointy shoes.
But that was not super drastic because I still like to incorporate tailoring now and then, mostly in winter.
mono black era came when i got a promotion during the pandemic and had some personal stuff going on and felt a need to convey a more reliable, less frivolous image, but it felt like i was wearing a costume. i thought people "needed" that of me, and when i realized no one cared, i started thinking through how i want to dress, and the rest is ongoing history lol
There is a certain attraction to having some kind of "uniform" I suppose?
it was just for a photoshoot BUT to go back to the example used for the post cover, I'm obsessed with her november 2024 vogue shoot that coat is so good
I create these persona's and basically just imagine what they'd wear and start looking for things that would fit that and start wearing it once I have it
I had a period where I was wearing dresses nearly every day (I’d say the ratio was maybe 30:1) which meant anytime I wore pants, EVERYONE I saw regularly commented because they saw it as a drastic change in my style. Now it’s kind of going the other way, where if I feel like wearing a dress instead of menswear, I start to dread people’s comments on the change and psych myself out
then it becomes really fun when you have one side of you wardrobe being 'princess diana core' and the other 'rockstar chic' and you start combining the two
I guess why be into fashion if you don’t want people to comment on your clothes
people will judge your clothes when they see them, usually on instinct, but imo that is separate from wanting commentary and is separate from the other reasons to be into fashion (the feel of clothes, construction, personal meaning, etc)
similar things are discussed here - https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1366081462738358556/1366434429840523264 - as with deciding to wear trends, it's worth acknowledging that you can choose what you want to do with people's commentary, be it agreeing with it, ignoring it, challenging it or something else.
I'm going through a drastic change in style now. I lost a ton of weight during the pandemic. Before that it was hard to really find clothes I even liked that fit and still worked from home after the pandemic, so I didn't really put much effort into how I dressed. It was pretty much tshirt and jeans/shorts type of wardrobe. Then I had a foot surgery that took a really long time to heal, and I gained a bit of it back.
Now I'm at a point where nothing I purchased in the last 6 years really fits great, I'm losing some weight again, and I can find things I actually like that will fit. Joined this server to help figure out where to go with it. Trying to put more effort in. Stilling figuring it all out.
I relate to this! I joined mfad after losing a lot of weight, needing a new wardrobe, and wanting to change/improve how I dressed.
I'm still figuring it all out too.
My advice to people in a similar situation is: 1) experiment and try different things out 2) secondhand (eBay, thrift) is a good way to experiment relatively cheaply. 3) posting fit pics is incredibly effective (but scary).
I touched on it in the last thread but I originally got into fashion because I wanted to look better and ended up just people pleasing for what I was told that I should look like, vs exploring what I actually liked. It's been endless fun since and I have met such lovely people through the hobby.
If you're not wearing what you like and having fun with it, what's the point imho
i feel like my “style” isn’t really a cohesive thing and is very fluid. like yeah sure i’m wearing a lot of 70s stuff now but that’s just bc i want to
I was always into my current style but it took some time to slowly push the dress code boundary at work into actually dressing like this every day lol
but also like ~6 months ago i was wearing a graphic black tee every single day and then i just stopped. never really thought about why
Ngl I kind of did a full circle, I was really into colourful, whimsical things in school, but when I got into uni (also with a lot of Internet influence during covid) I felt like I had to dress like an adult now and tried to change my style by force which basically had me looking like the Zara catalogue💀
Thankfully, the environment I‘m in now is a lot less judgy and I finally came to the conclusion that it‘s best to just dress like I actually want to and not what I think I should look like based on my age or situation in life
you look so unhappy in the second pic it gave me whiplash
I've actually had so many eras that I've forgotten about some of them.
That era was one of the worst times in my life so checks out😀
I grew a lot from it tho