https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 12 May 2026 22:20:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-882359 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:48:33 +0000 bj1111 882359@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ so great! &nbsp;you want to look like you, only better, shinier, more put together.<br /><br />ps...legs at work=a "do" https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-882052 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:36:19 +0000 Susie 882052@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Thank you for sharing your insight; I believe it resonates with a number of us. It sounds like you have a great grasp on the fine tuning you want to do with your style. Now have fun with that process! As far as showing your legs at work....you go girl! https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-882018 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:53:29 +0000 Adelfa 882018@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ Just found this post. What especially resonated to me was your adjectives "edgier and more feminine" as that's exactly what I'm going for too. They almost seem opposite, but they modify (for me and maybe you) a more strictly classic style. Good for you! I hope you post again soon! https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-856362 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:59:00 +0000 unfrumped 856362@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is a great post! Congratulations. You have really captured part of the problem of workday dressing- just grabbing the easy things. I need more style surgery than you do but still even just getting some YLF inspiration to do more SYC for some "sharper" combinations has helped me, me too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-856303 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:57:37 +0000 Caro in Oz 856303@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I understand:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-856264 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:18:04 +0000 westmoon 856264@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Unfortunately, the board I used is a "secret" board so I can't link you to it as a group, only add individuals. I kind of wanted to be able to be as candid as I liked in my descriptions of my pins and I didn't really think that was a good idea on a public board! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-856156 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:12:33 +0000 cciele 856156@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>"If my old style felt limiting it's because it was a blunt butter knife when I want it to be a scalpel."</p> <p>Great insights and also -- welcome </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-856144 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:05:49 +0000 Caro in Oz 856144@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love your description of how you had to give yourself permission to pin everything before you could become that scalpel. I would love to see your Pinterest board. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-856129 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:57:13 +0000 cheryl 856129@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fantastic realization! Keep enjoying the process! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855825 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:25:55 +0000 rachylou 855825@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like that. You've really brought things into focus. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855673 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:16:34 +0000 Angie 855673@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's fantastic! Observation is an excellent styling tool. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855655 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:11:15 +0000 Janet 855655@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's a great epiphany. </p> <p>I realized some time ago that "pinning," whether it's on Pinterest or ripping pages out of magazines, has power in it. The fact that we take time and effort to save these images helps to imprint them in our brains, and I believe we start making our own subtle shifts on an almost unconscious level. Before we know it, we've joined up with (or come close to) our aspirational style. </p> <p>I need to follow your lead in pinning more things that appeal to me, even if I don't believe I can wear them. Thanks for sharing all of this, and don't be a stranger! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855634 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:59:28 +0000 Tina.b 855634@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I thoroughly enjoyed reading your insights into your style progression and goals. I should really create a pin board and do exactly as you mentioned. So inspiring! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855625 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:53:46 +0000 Isabel 855625@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hahaha, I Love it !! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855623 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:52:56 +0000 westmoon 855623@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It was funny how hard it was to just pin freely at first. It actually takes some discipline to get past a knee-jerk "I couldn't wear that" caused by some portion of the outfit being too outrageous, or the model was half my age, half my weight and 6'3", or it was in a colour I wouldn't be seen dead in (or, might be mistaken for dead in), or it cost a month's salary. I'd try to write one sentence for my pin that captured why this image of something I couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't wear still spoke to me: I liked an accessory; I loved the colours or a colour contrast; I liked how items were layered or put together. Even so, I still had to remind myself over and over that I wasn't looking for a specific outfit, I was looking for a style.</p> <p>One advantage I have is that I sew, so I am kind of used to have to look past specific garments and fabrics and colours to the thing I would make myself using the same pattern. I don't have to love the orange coat the pattern company made up as a sample, I just have to like the shape and style of the coat. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855542 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:06:19 +0000 sarah 855542@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hooray! That's fabulous news. Congratulations. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855520 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:54:43 +0000 Tanya 855520@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome! That is a great realization to have and good luck on your style journey! I hope you stay here with us and maybe start posting some photos. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855513 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:48:22 +0000 Anonymous 855513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well hello there Westmoon! Welcome. I enjoyed reading about your epiphany, and it resonated with me on many levels. The idea of being *almost* there but just needing some fine tuning is one. I think the importance of tweaking is often underrated. When first started trying to figure out my style I thought I needed to go in the opposite direction than I had been all my life, when I think I just needed to educate myself (which happened on YLF) and then learn how to use that scalpel you speak of. Rock on, and thanks so much for your thoughts! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855507 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:42:53 +0000 Anonymous 855507@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for sharing this revelation with us! So glad for you, and do you know what? You have made me realise that I need to pin with more instinct and to be more broad minded, so thank you I hope we might be able to *see* you sometime as well. In the meantime enjoy your wardrobe planning. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855493 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:35:54 +0000 Suz 855493@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fantastic news! What a happy realization. And welcome to the discussion! If you feel comfortable posting some of your looks, we'd love to see. </p> <p>This is such an educational place, isn't it. Amazing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855487 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:33:00 +0000 Sara L. 855487@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's great that you have a style direction now. I'm still waiting for that elusive epiphany to strike </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855466 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:01:13 +0000 cheryle (Dianthus) 855466@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It must feel great to have resolved the issue for yourself. Well done.</p> <p>I look forward to seeing the edgier incarnation of your style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855455 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:40:40 +0000 TraceyLiz65 855455@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What great therapy to pin freely and examine your direction! No go forth and finesse your look with gusto and have fun along the way! Post pictures if you feel so inclined! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855454 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:40:38 +0000 harmonica 855454@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome! I'm so happy for you - this is a great realization and so good you already are heading the right direction this was a lovely and inspirational read </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855450 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:34:24 +0000 Vildy 855450@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Loved your description of your realization! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ive-had-a-style-epiphany#post-855448 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:30:03 +0000 westmoon 855448@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>... and it's that I didn't really need a radical epiphany!</p> <p>I have been lurking here a while, as I have been feeling for some time that I was in a rut with the way I dressed and presented myself. I felt like I was buying the same outfits over and over from the same shops and my wardrobe felt like a uniform from which I could not escape.</p> <p>As I started to want to break out of the straitjacket, I started to use Pinterest to get new ideas. I gave myself permission to pin absolutely any look, from anywhere, that I liked to a board, no matter how different the model was from me in terms of age, colouring or body shape. 100+ pins later, I looked at what I had chosen and found that in terms of actual basic garments and looks, my dream look is really just an edgier, slightly more feminine, more colourful, but above all more *deliberate* version of what I already wear. I think that I've fallen into the way I want to dress almost without really thinking about it, and now I just need to sharpen it up. If my old style felt limiting it's because it was a blunt butter knife when I want it to be a scalpel.</p> <p>I feel really good about this realization. It's given me some specific things to work on -- I need to think about shoes and accessories; I need to incorporate some more traditionally feminine items like skirts into the mix, recognizing that I've matured out a lot of my uncertainty and discomfort with being the only woman in a hugely male-dominated field. I love menswear looks, but I also love my legs -- no reason not to show them off a little in a professional way. I also really need to indulge my love of saturated deep colours and not be so dependent on black as my standby for all situations.</p> <p>I haven't really been present here on this board in any tangible way, but I do feel like just lurking and watching has been a really useful experience. So, to a dozen people who don't know me at all: thank you, you've inspired me! </p>