Expressing Yourself with Fashion

Having your own sense of style helps people tune into their inner self, developing the confidence everybody needs. If you take a look around, high school students wear unique outfits every day. Although some people may be wearing the same top, same pants, same accessories, each individual is different.

Each student has their own mind, feelings, and form of expression that is through their clothing. Everyone arranges the order of their outfit differently; one day, it’s two bracelets and one chain necklace, the next could be one bracelet with a choker-type necklace.

It all matters if it’s important to them, and what they love. People wear what they love, displaying personality. 

Many outfits vary from baggy pants with a graphic tee to babydoll tops with flare jeans. You could be walking and notice someone wearing either a plain or pictured shirt with a button up layering over it.

While outfits change every day, a person’s style mostly stays remotely the same. This is because that’s what a person feels most comfortable with as fashion is a form of self expression.

The clothes people buy, the accessories they add along with the outfit of the day — it’s all to show who they are.

Teenagers care the most about what they themselves wear. Without realizing, you wear what you do for approval: approval that your appearance is something that people would want to look at. 

Teenagers like to hear, “your outfit looks cute today,” or “I love that top.” Many might not admit to it, but it’s true.

Confidence is all everyone desires. That confidence is gained through how one dresses. Some have the mindset “if someone loves it, I love it” while some have the mindset that: “if I love it, then others will like it.”

Each mindset reflects on how a person views themself. Each way is perfectly valid, but hopefully, it’s the right one to build your confidence.

Confidence is a gentle thing. Anyone’s mindset can change. It can change in a quick incident, quick second and with that fact, it’s good to understand that not everyone feels the same about a certain style, trend, or top.

In everyone’s mind, you’re commenting on someone’s outfit. Whether it’s nice or even judgy. Your brain naturally acknowledges things that you like yourself, complimenting that person.

With that same idea, you have the opposite effect when you see an article of clothing you don’t like yourself. The teenage brain is simply wired that way. Seeing clothing items that you don’t like makes you wonder why another person would wear it. 

I do admit that most students don’t think that way and simply don’t care, but this general idea is widely thought of. It can even be applied to topics not related to clothing as well.

But, most of the time, you might even catch yourself thinking, “is that really what they’d wear?” when you see a sudden change in a person’s style without even realizing it.

You’re noticing that because you’re witnessing a person want to change how they’d want to express themself that day. Or who knows, maybe that ‘changed’ style is one they keep for a while.

People use what they wear on the outside to show how they are on the inside. Every choice made about their outfits connects to who they are themselves.