I’m a Fashion Editor and Here’s Everything I Wore This Week

Earlier this week I was reading an essay from Aemelia Madden’s Substack talking about her “personal style” and how, despite being a person who works in fashion, it is an ever evolving thing and is sometimes pretty boring. The concept of personal style has been a hot one in recent months and I whole-heartedly agree with Madden’s thoughts. She writes, “There’s a place to challenge ourselves to be a little more purposeful, but there’s also a place to look in the mirror and gently scream “snap out of it” when it’s taking up more mental real estate than it should. It’s OK to sometimes go about life in an unremarkable outfit, there are plenty of people who do so without thinking twice about it!” The best way to find your personal style is simply to go out and live your life, let the clothes find you, take stock of what makes you feel good, pay attention to how clothing fits in with your everyday. And know that not every day needs to be your best fashion moment.

One of the best habits I’ve developed in the past few years is to take photos of outfits I love when I discover them. They don’t need to be photos you’d happily post on social—so many of mine have piles of dirty laundry and spare socks in the background—but just for you to reference when you’re having one of those “I have nothing to wear” kind of days. It can also help you to realize things like “oh wow, I’m kind of obsessed with sweater vests aren’t I?” or “I really love how I look in the color green.” Sometimes the thought process behind an outfit is nuanced and complex, but other times it’s just me full on copying a cute ‘fit I found on Pinterest. Either way, I thought I’d share a week’s worth of outfits with you and the feelings behind them to perhaps inspire your own outfit rotation.