https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:53:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055438 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 06:02:51 +0000 rachylou 2055438@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have just googled *winter boho top*... I'm not sure if there is such a thing... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055435 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 05:09:13 +0000 Gigi 2055435@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Perhaps you need to expand the toppers in your wardrobe? A light leather jacket can be worn indoors, and some boho clothing stores (Free People comes to mind) have blazer-like toppers. If you are wearing a long, flowy top, maybe look for a cropped jacket instead of a long, flowy one?</p> <p>I think that having some boho pieces in black will help bridge the gap. And changing up your shoes can do a lot to alter the vibe of an outfit. If you are wearing a predominantly edgy outfit, try wearing boho shoes with it, and vice versa. And maybe look at your accessories, to see if you can add the contrasting style through accessories. Or even your hairstyle. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055426 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 03:42:58 +0000 Sal 2055426@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think boho does seem to work more easily in summer. Maybe it is the vacation vibe? I could see floral blouses with a long cardigan and jeans and boots? Or a velvet blazer? I think to combine the two I would take pieces that were a nod to boho.</p> <p>Floral dress with pants underneath and doc martens? 90s style? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055360 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 03:26:52 +0000 Echo 2055360@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, it is more for modesty than environment. I am willing to wear short-sleeved tops, but few of them seem to work with slim bottoms. While it isn't "expected" that we wear a topper, I feel uncomfortable if I don't. And then again, after September is over, that pretty much leaves the rest of the winter season with three pieces instead of two, making a topper mandatory. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055356 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 03:17:38 +0000 Suz 2055356@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do you need a topper for warmth or because you work in an environment where that is more or less expected? Because otherwise you could layer <b>under</b> the flowy top. Of course "flowy" would probably be relative...not a lightweight cotton but merino or something. And you could layer a base layer (either knit silk, Heattech, or merino -- whatever you like) invisibly beneath.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055355 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 03:05:34 +0000 Echo 2055355@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I ALMOST, but not quite, see what you are saying in terms of the masculine/feminine dichotomy. Yes, of course slimmer tops work with flowing skirts, and flowing tops work with slimmer/leather bottoms. But it is the winter aspect I am thinking of (since it is coming right up). Slim leather or suede tops work with summer bottoms (long, flowing skirts; harem pants), but the two seem to work less effortlessly when winter is considered. Slim leather tops with slim leather bottoms; too much. Boho tops with boho skirts for summer? Too free-spirit. I encounter the difficulty when I try to combine the two together.&nbsp;</p> <p>Combining slim tops with flowy summer skirts is no issue, as is combining flowy tops with slimmer and leather bottoms.&nbsp; But fall/winter is right around the corner. I don't feel like I can wear flowing/long tops. Or at least if I do, I need to wear a longer/flowing jacket on top.</p> <p>So perhaps it is the three-piece issue that is bothering me? I have no issue in the summer combining a flowy top with a slim bottom or vice versa. But when it comes to combining three pieces - bottom, top and topper - I don't know what to do.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055332 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:35:46 +0000 Anonymous 2055332@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Agreeing w Gretchen! Think 70s, 90s rockers as an influence: leather jacket + maxi would work well. Maybe some velvet and brocade too </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055329 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:16:54 +0000 Gretchen 2055329@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>They definitely work together! Boho tops over leather pants? Flowy skirt with a tighter top and stompy boots?&nbsp;</p> <p>Also, can you take the boho into winter with a darker color scheme?&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055328 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:13:30 +0000 rachylou 2055328@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Boho tops and leather pants would totally work. I have a similar issue, but my question is how to make stompy boots summery. I had some stompy sandals, but they died... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055325 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:07:15 +0000 Anonymous 2055325@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I see them as very much related . Masc vs femme versions of a certain aesthetic . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055323 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:45:11 +0000 Jenni NZ 2055323@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes I was just re-reading Rachylou’s ZA thread before and you were being an UWP there Echo. But haven’t there been threads just this week on “containing multiples” or Nemosmom’s thread on her 3 personas and how they overlap as Refined Californian? I like KKards’s thought above about different ends of the same style spectrum? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055322 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:40:19 +0000 kkards 2055322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmmmm interesting because I don’t see these as being opposites, I actually see them as 2 ends of the same style spectrum. In my limited imagination I see boho as the natural summer look for stompy boots and leather because to me they both speak to an outsider, “I dress me for” fashion vibe. But that’s just me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055313 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:42:20 +0000 Helena 2055313@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Perhaps it's am opportunity to use outfit juxtaposition, as Angie suggested for outfit interest? Wear the style that speaks to you for a given day, while accenting with the other style? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055310 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:29:40 +0000 cjh 2055310@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My first thought was to choose the shapes from one look and the colors/fabrics from the other. Such as black, gray or other chosen neutral solids in the swishy, more girly peasant shapes, perhaps. Or the more colorful prints in starker shapes with the stomps boots. I haven’t looked for possible images to support my theory, but it’s intriguing to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055309 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:27:43 +0000 Vildy 2055309@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>Sure you'll get loads of great advice here and I like the process this video uses. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Pci6_Iihs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Pci6_Iihs</a></div><div>Find Your Unique Style from Merriam Style<br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/how-to-merge-two-different-styles#post-2055306 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:11:45 +0000 Echo 2055306@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I tend to view myself as very UWP. I tend toward wearing a lot of black, big stompy boots, leather and skulls. That is my comfortable place/style. However, every summer, I tend to go all boho - big, floor length skirts, hippie/harem pants in batik or printed fabrics, Birkenstocks.&nbsp;</p> <p>I guess I don't really have an issue with wearing the two different styles, but they seem so polar opposite, and I really wouldn't mind incorporating the boho/hippie element into my fall/winter dressing. So my question is how to combine a harder edge with a softer boho style? Or is there simply no way to comfortably do that, and I should keep the style dichotomy? </p>