Angie has said many times that you cannot separate fashion from style. I think I understand her point, but I can't agree with her. The words have two very unique meanings to me.

Fashion: fast, trendy, constantly being updated and revised for the sole purpose of selling product to people that already have to much. Sometimes outrageous ... just to get attention. Not necessarily wearable. Treadmill-ish. Obviously, fashion is fun. I am not denigrating it, I am merely making a distinction.

Style: a way of expressing who you are and what you stand for. A statement. A confidence. A satisfaction. Style uses elements of fashion to make that a statement. Style is not fashion. It functions on a much higher level than fashion could ever hope to reach.

One is a tool or a platform upon which to build. The other is an action of putting things together to express yourself.

Yes. Angie would say that a woman cannot be stylish in the absence of fashion. As I said, "tool" versus "action." "Noun" versus "verb." "Passive" versus "action."

I understand the need to update a wardrobe, but I feel a woman should update her wardrobe in response to her personal style statement. She can pick and choose what she needs from an assortment of products.

I think Angie conflates the two words because she sells fashion so naturally she sees it from an entirely different prospective. It makes sense to conflate the two words from her prospective.

I read this blog every single day because I care very much about keeping my style as up to date (fashionable) as possible, but within the context of my personal style. I am not remaking myself every time a new trend emerges. This could be personality. I am slow to adopt new trends because I want to see how trends gel with the rest of the world. I am very conscious of the "fashion world" versus the "real world." I seem to take every single emerging trend and place it in a "real world" context to test it. Sometimes they just fail.

So I offer these ideas for consideration. I want to emphasize that whatever your definition of the two words, all that matters is what you think and what makes you happy.