Personal style is related to fashion sense and can be conscious or emergent. It is often influenced by social groups, interests, and age. People interested in fashion often document items that inspire them. Clothing is a common way to express oneself and can reveal personality. Personal fashion sense can be considered a social skill.
A person’s personal style is roughly equivalent to their fashion sense. Some people are very conscious of their style, which can be detailed and planned, including certain brands, patterns, and designers. Other people simply have an emergent style, which they may not be able to articulate, but which they unconsciously use to select clothing. A person’s sense of style is often related to their social groups, interests, and age, and often other individual factors as well.
People who are interested in fashion and clothing often take pride in personal fashion. These people likely have an ever-evolving sense of style. Sometimes people with a highly developed personal style document items of clothing or other items that inspire them and use these records to help develop their personal tastes. A fashion designer, for example, can keep such a record and use it to work on future clothing lines that reflect her personal design ethos.
On the other hand, many people cannot verbally isolate their personal style without significant thought. Most people have preferences for certain colors, patterns, or categories of clothing, but some can select entire closets that are remarkably themed based on these preferences without even knowing it. Those who are close to a person without an articulate style can easily point to the consistencies within their wardrobe, and this can be considered personal style.
Clothing is one of the most common ways that people express themselves, so a person’s fashion sense can be directly related to their life and social groups. This is the reason why certain ways of dressing are so closely associated with certain attitudes, particularly for the young. Groups that are particularly concerned with separation from the rest of their peers will tend to have radically divergent ways of dressing, such as people who wore punk clothing when punk was still highly controversial. However, even within these social groups, there are still elements of personal taste in the selected clothing.
Other factors that dictate personal style may include hair and coloring, makeup, accessories, facial expressions, and other mannerisms. Having a personal style may not be very important to a person, but a lot of first impressions are made with clothing and personal presentation. Many people find personal fashion sense to be very revealing about personality. People who are aware of their sense of style are often able to alter that sense of fashion to achieve positive results when called for for social or personal reasons. This can be valuable in so many important situations that being mindful of personal fashion trends can be considered a social skill.
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