Fashion vs. Style « Crazy for…

Fashion vs. Style

This cool, sunny Saturday morning, as I sipped my herbal tea and surfed the internet far and wide for inspiration, I found one of my favourite blogs which made me think hard about one of my favourite things in the world. The list of possibilities is short: family, friends, lovers, fine food, fine beverages, music, dancing and fashion. Today I have been contemplating fashion, or rather, an extension of fashion: Personal Style. Fashion is something you find in magazines, created by designers, copied by chain stores, worn by the masses. It may be an expensive habit, but fashion is easy to copy and wear, we are shown how to do it by the magazines, and we are also told where to buy it. Personal style is almost the opposite side of the spectrum. It is something that makes a person truly unique and defines them before they have said a word. It is usually something that is not copied, just comes naturally, and is completely different to anything anyone else is wearing. Of course, this may include designer or chain store clothes, but it is really all in the art of how every piece of clothing and accessory is put together, and then the attitude with which it is worn.

I can’t tell you whether or not I have personal style, I think that is something immediately judged by others at first glance, and certainly I get lazy fairly often and you will catch me blogging in trackies and thongs, but i will say this, my Mum thinks I have fabulous personal style, and I guess thats all that matters to me! Here are some of the things that inspire me when it comes to style (yep, there are a few cliches in there!):

- Sex and the City: possibly a little out-dated now, but the ideas are still there.