Reachel Bagely- Cardigan Empire
Uniforms have a delightfully useful purpose. They can identify the person who delivers your mail, changes your bedpan or brings you nourishment. Avoiding confusion between these services with a simple visual identification can only be called crucial. However, some things in life should not be oversimplified. You, for example: a many-tricked pony, incapable of being tamed by a single definition.
There are few individuals who meet the strict criteria to justify a uniform. 1) Steve Jobs & Albert Einstein: whether they’re turning over the laws of physics or media kingdoms, the minds of these individuals are so well known and so over taxed that I will leave them to their one outfit. 2) Cartoon Characters: they are in essence caricatures so having an sketched closet full of duplicates makes sense. (Except that I don’t really believe they switch out ensembles, everyone knows there is such a thing as sketch sweat.) Unless you fit into the above two categories, I cannot justify you in a single uniform. You may have to wear an officious uniform part of the day, but I better see some wardrobe dimension from you in your off time. What we’re looking for in place of a uniform is a personal brand of style.
Brands are not just for soda pops and dr. professional multinationals. No, a brand is for your exclusive introduction into the world’s drawing room as well.
The primary benefits of a sartorial brand are first, a visually recognized identity. Most of us wake up to the same body and consciousness every day. There is only one of you, entirely distinct and unique. (Unless you are a Siamese twin, which makes the two of you less distinct but even more unique). Your personal brand, like your Lady Hancock, should help to distinguish you as an individual. Your clothing should be a seamless extension of your inner ego, your super ego, and maybe a little of a tamed id. A parlay to your cohesive soul’s center, for the best dressed person is the closest thing to naked. Meaning your style should mix seamlessly with your nucleus.
To achieve this identification, a personal brands must offer consistency. Your wardrobe should feel reliable but not repetitious on a daily basis. Consistency doesn’t necessarily come from wearing the same twinset and chinos everyday. You can be consistently offering the same message while switching between hues and textures.
The second benefit of a personal brand is versatility, an increased ability to mix and match between the different selections in your closet.
For elementary education has shown us that like things conglomerate. Mixing and matching becomes far simpler when there are kindred (although not exact echos) of items in your wardrobe.
I believe it reprehensible for you to wear the same blouse with the same trousers every time you retrieve them from your closet. Let your wardrobe crossbreed. Have you seen what happens when cousins take a liking to each other? Allow some diversity into your ensembles and breed a prosperous wardrobe. Mixing & matching allows you to have a vast set of outfitting options without requiring an Imelda Marcos wardrobe scope. In essence, mixing and matching is a money saver, dispensing a new outfit rush without draining a dime for the fix.
And heterogeneous diversity will yield robust results. If your wardrobe only holds tulle skirts and wrap sweaters, you might as well bread weakly cousins. Feel free to mix opposites, just be sure they share similar core foundations.
Radically diverse species of styles cannot procreate ensembles. Sure a horse and donkey can produce a lovechild, but do you really want to wear a mule? A closet which reliably issues the same brand of style can be easily rearranged in multitudinous fashion genetics.
For your garb does far more than aid your feeling of personally prettiness, nay clothing places you in society. Perhaps not in the clean little class boxes that it did when only Aztec royalty could wear cotton, but certainly it speaks to what you believe in, what you’re rebelling against, and with whom you care to share tea.
