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Originally published at Mind over Matter. You can comment here or there.
There were some incidents, discussions and revelations over the last few days that got me thinking in the direction of the dressing sense of various people. It is not a secret, but one does tend to think many a times that certain kinds of dresses will not suit him/her. This may be the case even though when the person actually wears it he/she do look quite good in that particular dress.
For example, right from childhood I have felt comfortable in certain kinds of dresses whereas I used to think that I don’t look good in other kinds. There were stages during my schooling days when I used to wear only formals. Then there were times when I used to wear tees with only vertical stripes. For ever I have worn loose dresses since I have always tried to cover the excess weight that I have been carrying around since childhood. In the recent past, especially when I go to malls and large chains of cloth stores I have liked a lot of different types of dresses, but I have never had the courage to wear them since I always used to think that it will not suit me and that I will not look good in them.
But at one point, I decided to just go and buy some radically different types of tees and pants that what I am usually seen around with. I got myself a nice shirt but which was short sleeved as I later discovered, and also a long sleeved, but a little tight fitting tee. I also got me tight fitting jeans than the usual baggy jeans that I normally wore. At first I was quite conscious when I wore them and I felt that it was a little too tight and that it would not suit me. Then I decided that it would indeed suit me and that I should not be unnecessarily conscious. When I wore that and went to office, I was really surprised by the comments of many of my friends and teammates. Almost everyone that I met that day came up and told me that what I wore was looking very good on me and other compliments. Partly the comments were due to the fact that I had worn something so different from what I had been wearing for the last few years, but the great thing was no one told me that I was too fat to wear such stuff. And I have enough friends who won’t miss an opportunity to poke fun at me and they didn’t tell anything bad about my dressing style, so I knew that what I was wearing was actually suiting me and didn’t look bad.
On the other hand, there were some types of dresses that I think look good on me, but common dressing sense says that it should not. For example, I think business suits with solid colored shirts, like red, blue, and without tie look nice and as long as the occasion doesn’t call for really formal dressing attire, it is not totally inappropriate. However, my wife is of the opinion that business suits are usually worn with light colored shirts(contrasting with the dark colored business suits that I have) and doesn’t look good without a tie. But then, I feel confident wearing these business suits in an informal fashion and I carry it off well since I am confident about the way I dress.
Remembering these incidents again got me thinking. Even if one does indeed look good in certain types of dresses, if he/she is not confident about his/her own dressing style and is always of the opinion that it is looking awkward then for sure he/she will not be able to carry it off well and everyone will feel that something is wrong just because of the way the person is carrying off the dress. When I had started wearing tee shirts, I used to always walk with a slouch since I didn’t want the shirt to stick to me and hang loosely. If someone had seen me like that, for sure they would have thought that there was something wrong with either me or my dress. This recent time when I got those tight tees and jeans, I really didn’t care what other thought. I looked at myself in a mirror and I felt that I look good in that dress and I carried it off confidently.
So dressing style is not just about what suits you or what others think you look good in, but dressing style is actually feeling comfortable in what you are wearing. If you don’t feel comfortable in certain kinds of dresses, then you just shouldn’t wear them. I have come to believe this.
Many international magazines have rated Britney Spears dressing sense as atrocious, but then if she is comfortable wearing what she does, then who is anyone else to stop her from doing so?

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