Workshopping an Outfit - Topic of the day 5/15/25
How do you go about getting from an initial idea to your favorite version of an outfit? Do you return to it a few times over a few weeks, or does it tend to be in one burst? What do you do when something juuuust isnt turning out right? Do you have to work in isolation or do you reach out to friends/enemies/q&a?
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also a reminder ^_^ if you guys want feedback on your fits make sure to mention "feedback welcome" or something similar on your #waywt fitz okayy bye have a fun totd
I used to work really hard on making a fit perfect and then i realized over time that nobody really gives a hoot
tends to be one burst and then some degree of refinement over further wears
I think it's one of the funnest parts of personal fashion but obv different for everyone
Ya forsure my favorite bits of my fashion journey has been work shopping fits with people
Similar to awz, big burst and often I get the base down then
Sometimes I cant get it to work the first time and give up out of frustration
Personally, my fits have a silhouette, reference, or general core idea that I build off of, whether that's from inspo or my head
Also you need a full length mirror for this lol
90% of the time the outfit is all about the pair of pants I want to wear that day, then whatever is clean and goes well with it
im familiar with my closet and how things fit enough to near perfect picture how an outfit would look in my head so i just do it in my head usually
another untreated adhd moment
I like to return to outfits. Waywt is really helpful for me to workshop, actually, mostly because I find having a photo of my outfit allows me more time to kind of sit with it and think about it for the future.
I tend to think about them on my own, but I’d definitely like to utilize y’all more.
usually i riff in front of a mirror and then look at inspo for a while until somthing clicks
my general threshold is if i'm 70% okay with it to post because i often am self-ctitical, usually fixed by defaulting on actiom
if i'm still not feeling it i'll crosspost in #waywt and #questions-and-advice - the reacts are a good indicator of if it was a good fit that i should embrace or something functionally wrong, and q&a diagnoses what that is, especially with bigger swings
whenever i get something new i'll wear it every day for like 2 weeks
after that, sometimes i won't wear it again for like months
i facetime a freind and ask for their opinion on it normally
I look at my closet and see an item I want to wear and I'll build around that specific peice
Or in my head "I really want to wear X item today/tomorrow "