A few days ago I started thinking about uniqueness, how unique we all are, and the importance to embrace that uniqueness. I understand that fashion trends are made for people to follow, but I also understand that people should be faithful to themselves, their beliefs, their style, and their personal touch. That doesn’t mean that we cannot change, since one of the great things of fashion is that is always renewing, and reusing, or creating new trends and styles for consumers to identify.
Every time I take the train or the bus, I get to appreciate people’s personal fashion, noticing, that people that have a style outside the trend are the ones that call even more for attention. The reason I believe a trend reproduces itself is when we want what we don’t have, maybe we don’t feel attracted at the beginning, but once we seen somebody else wearing it we want it. So here comes the contradiction. We want something when we see it works for someone else but then again, we want to remain unique. The uniqueness is what makes us so special, we can be similar with someone else’s style but in the end we are unique and that is soo great. Even if we don’t like our hair, nose, hips, or our legs, we all have a different body type and we should know how to work it according to the clothes and fits we know it works for us, because unfortunately not every trend, clothes or design works for everybody.
I used to think I wanted to be in the fashion trend of the moment but then again… why? To be part of something bigger than me? To feel secure? What better challenge than to feel comfortable in my own skin and impose the trend. Taking the risk of sounding a bit too egocentric, I have seen a lot of people starting to use a lot of trends I thought I started, (well thanks to designers from another country I got to apply them to my own country) and it felt so great when people asked me where I had purchase these or those shoes, and that I was the only one using them. I realized then that even thou I’ve been questioned for my style in the past, there are people that do know how to appreciate it. We don’t need to change for anybody else as long as we feel comfortable with our own skin, and if people do not like it, it may not be our problem that we don’t fit their expectations on fashion, in fact, that’s the greatness of uniqueness, and people may like it was well as repel it. We don’t need to please anyone but ourselves.
The best part is that perfection does not exist!!! Imperfection is what makes us so perfect.
