Help with style moniker - YouLookFab Forum

Hi, everyone. My taste is changing! Which feels a little scary because I'm a careful spender and without a sharp focus to taste-wise I feel in danger of making too many mistakes. (Don't mind a mistake or two here and there but really do try to avoid.)

If you have a moment, would you be willing to help me brainstorm a style moniker to help me focus? When I started here I'd have described what I like as Prairie Modern. My comfort zone fashion-wise is in vintage. I like pretty, feminine things, natural fabrics, but also live a very "geary" lifestyle with lots of opportunities to be outdoors, on trails, hiking and stuff. What I'm finding as I shop is that I'm very drawn to a more modern, minimal sleeker look (COS) and bright colored gear. How to reconcile? They all work in my wardrobe, just don't know how to describe.

Recent finds below for reference.

Zappos

Evolv Cruzer Psyche

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Custom Find

by Greenjeans

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Boden

Suki British Tweed Coat

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COS

Drawstring shirt dress

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by Greenjeans

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Brooks Brothers

Cotton Eyelet Shirt Dress

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COS

Ribbed babylock top

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7 years ago

Greenjeans

Veteran

A few more finds . . .

Zara

Fitted Dress Details

Wool Moto Jacket

Jacquard Cashmere Cardigan

UNIQLO

Women's Premium Linen Long Sleeve Button-front Shirt

Liverpool Layla Wide Leg Crop with Released Hem on Silky Soft Denim in Havasu Deep Blue

LaPed

Oh, I definitely still see a lot of prairie modern here! The shirt dresses, the blush brogues, the plaid jacket, the round collar blouse with the drawstrings -- I get a bit of a vintage-prairie vibe from all of these, but yes, very current feeling due to colour palette and minimalist detailing.

It looks like your style leans toward integrating gear in a way that's more outdoorsy rather than urban-athleisure, and your casual and gearish pieces, from the Finds, look like they all play nicely together. (I have a very similar approach -- trying to shop for gear that will mesh with my existing casual colour palette, etc.

Anyway, not sure I can think of a better moniker. "Modern Explorer" perhaps?

Thanks for the feedback, LaP! This is super-helpful and something I didn't even really notice 'til you mentioned it:

"It looks like your style leans toward integrating gear in a way that's more outdoorsy rather than urban-athleisure."

I will think on it.

rachylou

Well, I love all your stuff. LOVE. I see the things here as Rustic Modern. Sleek but at home in nature.

The Cat

GREAT style! This is what I would call "Classic Sporty" or "Town and Country."

Thanks, The Cat and Rachylou! I wouldn't have thought Classic or "Town and Country" applied, but now that you've said it I do see and it's pointing me in an interesting direction - thinking about color and texture as categories and not just descriptors.

FWIW, I tried this puffer last week and while I like it in the photo because color and waist definition, it felt and looked silly on, like I was wearing a superhero biker costume or something. Too shiny. Too urban maybe?

Blanc Noir Motion Panel Puffer Jacket

It’s a little bit cheesy. Flat shine. Now mind, my neighbor looks great in cheesy. I peruse her catalogs; there’s cute stuff. This jacket is cute. But it’s very Spidey.

Jenni NZ

Before I read all the responses so far, I thought Modern Country? To me as a non-North American the prairies are associated with Little House on the Prairie! ( I do have a BIL and SIL who live in Saskatoon in Canada though which is prairie in current time of course). I don't see any Little House here. I agree with La P's comment that you liked.

Ok, this is a home decor thing... but I feel there is similar spirit. Emily Henderson, decorator, coined this term: Modern Homespun

I think she’d wear your clothes

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Ha!. Note taken, rachylou. (No to the Spidey.) Though I can see how someone younger and more moto than I might wear it well. I am drawn to moto as a look in general (asymmetrical zips!) but feel like a total poseur when I put it on.

Thanks, Jenni NZ. Prairie to me means grassland and wide open spaces, wind and sky with a nod to 1800's vintage (cotton and ruffles) a la Little House. I admit it, I do harbor some ruffle-love though as style changes I can feel myself moving away from that and toward something more sleek. Have become a big fan of COS. It's weird to me how well their line fits in with what I like style-wise due to how they present their clothes on the models (futuristic) but if you ignore that there's a lot that feels old-timey - wool, cotton, tweed - but in a very interesting palette.

JuniperGreen

It seems like you've actually nailed your descriptors! What fun, I may snag a few of your finds...

Modern Homespun . . . I'd wear her clothes! Thanks, rachylou.

Have at it, JuniperGreen! (cool username, by the way.)

These are all great ideas.

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