While anyone can wear a nice outfit, not everyone knows how to actually style an outfit so that they’re wearing it rather than having it wear them. But with a little bit of effort, you can turn any bland and boring outfit into a stylish ensemble that you’re happy to wear.
So whether you’re a senior in an assisted living facility or a young professional trying to find your grown-up style, here are three ways to better style your outfits and achieve the looks you want.
Go With A Statement Piece
When you’re trying to pull an outfit together that really has some style to it, a great place to start is with a statement piece.
When you dress with one statement piece that’s really meant to pop, you will automatically set yourself apart from those who just try to blend into the background. Be careful, however, that you don’t try to have too many statement pieces in one outfit. While this can work, it’s usually best to have just one statement piece that draws the eye and stands in contrast to the rest of what you’re wearing. This way, you can draw people’s attention to the part of your outfit that you want to pop and do something a little daring with what you’re wearing.
Don’t Forget About Accessories
For any outfit that you put together, the clothes are only a part of the equation. To really style an outfit, you have to include accessories along with the clothes that you’re wearing.
There are so many different accessories that you can choose for any given outfit. You can use accessories that you wear over your clothes or accessories like jewelry that you can layer under and over your clothes. You can also accessorize with things like hats, scarves, purses, sunglasses, belts, headbands, gloves, and so much more.
Embrace Your Creativity
If you were just to wear clothes as they came, there likely wouldn’t be a lot of styling taking place. So to really style an outfit, you need to embrace your own creativity and add something to the ensemble or the way that you’re wearing it.
You can get creative with how you wear the clothes, how they fit on you, and how you have one article of clothing interacting with another article of clothing. You can also style an outfit by mixing and matching in creative ways or giving an unexpected twist to something that people usually only wear in a specific way, with certain other items, or at a particular time. Anything that shows off your own personality and that brings personality to your outfit can take your clothes from just being worn to really being styled.
If you want to style your outfits rather than just wearing clothes, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you in doing this.
