If someone asked me how I define my personal style, I wouldn’t have a direct answer. Eclectic? All over the place? I’ve always had a diverse interest in my academic studies and hobbies, and the same holds true for fashion. From old fashioned dresses to studded jackets to tons of collared shirts, I like to think I have a little bit of every style in my closet! Sure, this makes branding my fashion blog a little difficult (I don’t share exclusively super feminine outfits, nor do I just share casual looks), but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Sometimes you can learn a lot about a person through the way they dress, so I thought it would be fun to share my most-worn styles, along with some of my hobbies and traits that most correspond to those categories of fashion. Hope you enjoy this unique get-to-know me post!

Style 1: BOHO

Go-To Fashion Pieces: Printed palazzo pants, mock-neck tank tops, loose-flowing skirts (sometimes worn as tops), strappy sandals

Traits: Adventurous (occasionally), creative, gets restless with routines, loves trying new foods, rarely puts things away when finished with them

Hobbies + Activities: Drawing, reading, hiking, basking in the sun on lazy summer days

Outfits Inspired By: Traveling!!!! And boho Pinterest girls

Notes: I mostly wear boho-style outfits in the summer when it’s too hot to wear anything but breezy fabrics.

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(To see more of these looks, click here, here, and here, and check out additional boho outfits here!)

Style 2: PREPPY

Go-To Fashion Pieces: Cute trousers and alllll the collared shirts (layered under sweaters or dresses, of course)

Traits: Extremely organized, curious, goal-setter, a little too much of a perfectionist

Hobbies + Activities: Makes lists of the lists that need to be made, obsessively tracks cost per wear in an Excel spreadsheet, spends too much time doing schoolwork

Outfits Inspired By: The fashion blogging scene of the early- to mid-2010s when everyone wore really colorful pieces with lots of layers and pattern mixing

Notes: My preppy style stems from years of school uniforms and a high school dress code that required collared shirts (hence the large collection of such shirts), but I don’t reach for preppy looks as often in college. Although, I would say preppy fashion most corresponds to my Type A personality!

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(To see more of these looks, click here, here, and here, and check out additional preppy outfits here!)

Style 3: EDGY

Go-To Fashion Pieces: Pleather jackets in as many colors as possible, black lace-up pants, white studded mules, choker necklaces

Traits: Enjoys wearing studded pieces but that’s about my only edgy quality

Hobbies + Activities: Learning the basics of mixology, wrote a post about the IBTC on the blog (gasp!), signed up to be a model at Denver Fashion Week (and failed)

Outfits Inspired By: Pinterest girls who are way cooler than I could ever be

Notes: I would say this is the most common style I reach for, though only because of a few pieces in my closet (I’m not a very ‘edgy’ or spontaneous person but I like to build outfits around a few edgier items).

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(To see more of these looks, click here, here, and here, and check out additional edgy outfits here!)

Style 4: GIRLY

Go-To Fashion Pieces: Polka dot skirt, black knee boots, chic dresses, brooches and other sparkly jewelry

Traits: Loves surprises, always smiles in pictures, dresses up as much as possible, sentimental

Hobbies + Activities: Fashion blogging (duh), spending hours trying on different outfits just for fun, scrapbooking, learning to sew, writing letters

Outfits Inspired By: My grandma, old fashioned clothing, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

Notes: I hardly own any pink clothing, but rather than color, I reach for girly shapes and patterns when I wear this style. If given the choice between a girly-girl and a tomboy, there’s no question I’m the former!

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(To see more of these looks, click here, here, and here, and check out additional girly outfits here!)

And there you have it, my most-worn style ‘categories’ and my personality traits that match them most! It’s hard to definitively categorize every outfit, as lots of my looks incorporate aspects of several styles (like this preppy + edgy outfit), but I do try my best to label as many blog posts as possible to make for easy searching in the sidebar. If you navigate to the widget called ‘Explore Outfits by Category’, you can browse my blog posts by these four styles and several additional categories.

Which of these four styles best summarizes your fashion choices?? Or do you fall into one not mentioned here, like ‘classic’ or ‘casual’ or ‘grungy’? Or maybe you’re all over the place like me! Some bloggers have such specific niches when it comes to the fashion they wear, but I’ve accepted that I will never be one of those bloggers.

Let me know your favorite types of fashion or a fun fact about yourself in the comments below, and thanks for stopping by!

 

Miles of smiles,

Grace