I am having a style crisis. I wake up and do not know what to wear. Everything I put on feels like a disaster.
When I was sixteen it felt so easy to wear and put together outfits, I thought were cool and chic. I did not care what anyone thought of what I wore but now it’s all I think about.
I think it’s the environment that I was in when I was sixteen the only criticism would come from peers of my very small, minded hometown which I could put down to “they just don’t get it” which was true considering I wasn’t wearing anything that out of the ordinary I just knew the fashion girlies would find it cool and that’s the only thing that mattered to me.
But now I’m at Uni studying Fashion I feel what wear just doesn’t feel like me or cool and chic anymore. It doesn’t make me stand out like it used to, it feels used old and not the person I am today and that’s why I’m having a crisis.
When I started my uni course in 2023, I thought everyone who was on the course would be obsessed with dressing cool, trendy and experimental in their own way. I was right to a degree some of the people that I’m lucky to call my friends dress insanely cool and I’m grateful for that, but I still feel like I can’t dress how I would if I was in London for the weekend. I feel like I would be doing too much.
The feeling that I’m doing too much is why I’m having a crisis. I struggle to find outfits that aren’t too much but also are cool and make me feel myself. I also feel my wardrobe limits the way I want to dress due to the fact I am a clothes hoarder lol. I have clothes that fit my 16-year-old self and 3 years down the line definitely do not fit. This summer I have sold half my wardrobe at car boots and on vinted (please buy my clothes) but I still have way too much stuff that just isn’t me anymore.
Another thing is even I don’t know how I want to dress anymore even I do not know my own style. I have no idea where to start on how I want to dress. I think I’m hoping it will just come to me one day. Sadly, that day has not yet come.
Hopefully in the next coming weeks I will be able to write a post on how to overcome a style crisis however for now I’m still in crisis mode.
Bisous
Charl x
Charl Brown 