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Chapter 1: What is the art of accessorizing in fashion?
Today we'll be discussing one of my favorite art forms, and that would be the art of subtle yet impactful accessorizing, specifically within the context of fashion, clothing, self-expression. I love all types of accessorizing. I love accessorizing the home, accessorizing the car, accessorizing the computer desktop, like the list goes on.
But if I were to have that conversation, we'd be here for six to seven hours. And I don't think either of us have time for that. So today we're just talking about accessorizing in fashion, in self-expression. I love accessorizing just as much as I love clothing. And I, in my brain, look at the two things as sort of separate. They obviously come together to make a complete outfit, right?
But in my head, they're two separate art forms in a way. Some of you might disagree with me about that. Some of you might see that as sort of the same thing, but I don't know. To me, it's a different art form.
Getting dressed with actual garments, pants, skirts, dresses, jackets, whatever, actual technical clothing items that are the base of the outfit, putting those together in a way that makes sense is its own art form to me.
It's the art form of sort of taking a silhouette of a pant or a skirt and balancing it with a silhouette in a color or whatever of the top and, you know, paying attention to the textiles and what looks good together and, you know, creating sort of a color palette, like a base color palette. But I feel like the most important thing
element of putting clothing pieces together is balancing the silhouettes together, making it look flattering together, you know? And I think the art of accessorizing that base is its own separate sort of art form. And maybe I'm just taking all this too seriously, and maybe I sound pretentious, and maybe you all hate me, but this is how I feel. Thank you so much for watching.
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I'm just wearing a bag that matches the outfit and I'm just wearing a pair of socks that matches the outfit and I'm just wearing a belt that sort of matches the outfit or makes sense, I guess. I thought of it in very simple terms and that is absolutely accessorizing. And sometimes that's all the accessorizing that makes sense is sort of simple accessorizing.
But more recently, I feel like my mind has expanded to what accessorizing can truly be in fashion, like the potential for... truly having fun with accessorizing, truly expressing yourself through accessorizing. And it's inspired me today to share with you a few things. Number one, some accessorizing advice. Is the advice professional? Of course not. It's me, silly. It's unprofessional.
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Chapter 2: How has the perception of accessorizing evolved?
They can have like yellow rubber on them and like actually look cool. Wear them as winter gloves one year if it's like not that cold. If it's obviously super cold, you need something a bit warmer, but you get the idea. Take like a vintage chef apron, like waist apron and cut it so it's like maybe a bit more skirt-like and layer that over top clothes. Like,
Get creative with, you know, finding functional accessories, perhaps even repurposing these sort of utilitarian workwear items that there's a plethora of in the thrift stores that aren't really being used because a lot of chefs or whatever or people who are like they donated the stuff for a reason because it's not... fully functional anymore.
Well, you can repurpose it and use it as more of a fashion moment. Another idea, add charms to stuff. Collect cool charms. Make charms yourself. I don't care. Charms. Add them to your earrings. Add them to your belt loops. Add them onto your bag. Clip them onto stuff. Charms. But make them personal, okay? Make them personal. hyper specific items that make sense for you. Okay.
Like for almost a comical level of convenience. Like for example, if you always lose your house key, make a necklace with like a cool ribbon and tie it around your neck and have your key on your neck all the time. That looks cool actually. Or like if you smoke cigarettes, you shouldn't. but like, I don't know, have like a little lighter key chain or something. Like, do you get what I'm saying?
If you constantly have toothpicks in your mouth, find like a little toothpick carrier that you can like attach to your bag. Do you know what I'm saying? Like hyper specific items that make sense for you and your specific lifestyle and like what you would actually need to have available, what you would actually want to have conveniently placed. Think outside the box with it.
Truly think about your life and your daily routine and find a way to accessorize it. Does that make sense? Find a way to turn that into an accessory. Even if you write with pens a lot, maybe you start buying cool pens that you actually want to show off and clip them to your bag or clip them to a collared shirt or find a way to accessorize your routine, make your routine an accessory.
That doesn't make sense, but you get what I mean. And last but not least, clothing toppers. I don't know if that's actually a real term, but I'm actually wearing one right now. There's various different things that you can like throw on top of an outfit that couldn't be worn on their own, but, you know, are pieces that you can routinely throw over different things.
And they're either mesh or they're lace or they're like a vest that's like open or they're like a waist belt, like a utilitarian sort of waist belt or whatever. These types of toppers that you can throw on top of outfits that add dimension, add texture. Yeah. add character, but are not like pieces of clothing themselves.
But that also can be worn in a trillion different ways and kind of read differently depending on what they're paired with. These sorts of toppers, they're not things that you necessarily come across all the time, but every once in a while you do. And I think they're great accessories. And they're bordering on clothing, but they are accessories.
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