Understanding your aspirations is key!

Whether they are big or small changes you want to make taking these steps can help you to ssuccessfully transform your style.

1. moodboard

Start by creating a mood board of your ideal style.

What you aspire too in terms of your style changes over time and in response to external feedback.

In the mood board collect your ideas to better understand what is influencing you.

One mood board may not be enough.

Using a tool like Pinterest you can create multiple mood boards. For example, one for every season or for different aspects of your lifestyle.

Ascribe key words for the styles you want to focus on. Test the terms online to see if searches of the words deliver the style you want.

2. set goals

The next step involves setting your goals.

Begin by assessing your mood board.

Distil what styles you would want to wear.

Understanding the styles, you like versus those you want to create for yourself is critical when it comes to transforming your style.

Do you enjoy wearing the variation on a single style. Or do you like to have one style for work and another when you are off duty?

How do you feel about wearing colour, prints, patterns? Is it something you want to do more or less of?

Consider practical issues like your budget, lifestyle, and wardrobe space when setting your goals!

3. review your wardrobe

Consider the garments you have compared to your goals.

Which pieces align with your goals. Are these your go to pieces?

What are the gaps? There are the clothes that embody the style you want to achieve.

This is a good time to move on looks that don’t align with your goals.

4. research

With your goals set research the brands and designers offering pieces that align to them and that fill your gaps.

The word check you did earlier will help here.

Before launching into shopping mode set some ground rules for yourself.

• Be clear on your budget.
• Avoid mega shopping hauls as they tend to deliver short term gain for long term pain. Learn more about this here.
• You might also want to add requirements such as ethical and sustainable design. More on this issue here.

Resist the urge to shop online now.

Prepare a list of items to try in store.

This is a trial-and-error process. To avoid costly mistakes a good option is to test out your ideas in store.

HAVE FUN!

Do not be disheartened if selected items do not work as intended.

Creating your style will require a few test runs until you learn how to translate your ideas into the style you imagine.

Bottlegreen and Yellow Personal Stylist offers wardrobe refreshes and can help you create the style of your dreams.