Strike Boca’s Greatest Fashion Advice
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Fashion is expression. It’s political; it’s fluid; it represents what comes from within and can have a significant effect on our lives and who we are.
Whether you’re following trends, staying timeless or choosing a different aesthetic based on your mood, fashion is all around us *cue the Miranda Priestly cerulean sweater monologue* and is one of the best skills one can develop over the course of discovering how they want to show up to the world.
It’s not just a phase, it’s a lifestyle; a lesson to be taught by the world around us. There is a saying that we are a collection of every person we’ve ever experienced. The same could be said of fashion advice. Every piece of clothing we put on our bodies is an intentional decision curated by the collective knowledge and wisdom we’ve learned along the way.
If you’ve never received fashion advice before, here’s your starting point: Strikes’ staff’s greatest fashion advice.
Madi Denizard
Being a diva from birth, I have always loved dressing up and seeing which outfits made me feel the most like I could be the star of my very own movie. As I have grown, I have followed trends and gone through different phases, but the one thing that I’ve been told by multiple people that really stuck with me was to dress as if ‘little you’ were looking up at current you and seeing her idol. Dressing for your inner child can be such a powerful thing, and brings you back to the root of who you were before fashion became trying to fit a certain palette or aesthetic.
Rosemary Aziz
Wear your most coveted items and spray your most luxurious perfumes as often as you can. Every day is an occasion, as life waits for no one to be exquisite. Though true style comes from adorning your heart with kindness and compassion, there is no better accessory, and every day is as good a day as any to wear it.
Sol Moyano
My advice: Try to limit your online shopping as much as possible and instead, try going in person to a mall or a thrift store. This is because I’ve noticed that with online shopping, you’re more likely to shop impulsively. There are so many ads nowadays, and clicking the ‘add to cart’ button feels like an addiction. The bad part is that this is how we fall into micro trends that’ll later just sit either in our closets or in landfills.
When you shop in person, you get to really feel the items you’re viewing and understand what fabrics they’re made of. You also get to try them on and figure out if it’s really the right fit for you and your style. You are less likely to fall into micro trends because you might realize that not every trend is for everybody, and that’s the key to understanding fashion. Not to mention you support your local stores, make friends with store employees, and get your steps in for the day!
And I’m not saying online shopping is completely bad; obviously if there’s an item you’ve been eyeing for sometime now, and you think it’ll look good on you, you might as well purchase it. God knows I spend my time doomscrolling on eBay and Depop. What I’m saying is to make sure you don’t find yourself in a rabbit hole of having a complete polyester closet full of outdated trends.
Alison May
The Sandwich Method: Your outfit forms a sandwich, meaning that elements of the upper body of your outfit match an element of your lower body. For example, matching your shirt to your shoes or a hair accessory to your pants.
The Seven Point Rule: I love this rule, and I have seen a lot of people talk about it. Each element of your outfit is a certain number of points that add up to seven for the entire outfit. Say you’re wearing a white t-shirt, which would be one point, and any simple accessories would also be one point, but something that is more bold or patterned would be 2 or 3 points, and so on.
There are a multitude of different ways to make fashion expressive of who you are. Hopefully, the advice we’ve all been given has helped you learn something new and exciting.
Now go express yourself!
Strike Out,
Madi Denizard
Boca Raton
Madi Denizard is a content writer for Strike Magazine Boca. In typical Leo fashion, she is a social butterfly and loves self-expression of all kinds. When she’s not writing, you can find her with her nose stuck in a book, mermaiding in the ocean or crocheting her newest masterpiece. You can reach her by email at madison.denizard@gmail.com or on Instagram @mpaigee_
