Fashion Today: How to develop a sense of style from scratch - Get out of your comfort zone

Here on INTO MIND I talk a lot about defining your own personal style and building your wardrobe around it. If you are a fashion newbie, that may sound like an impossible task. 

How are you supposed to know whether you prefer bright colours vs. neutrals or feel best in flow-y bohemian pieces vs. tailored separates? 

Here’s how: You try it out.
The only way to ever get to a place where you can confidently say, yes this is my style is by exposing yourself to a ton of different aesthetics and experimenting, to find out what you like, as well as all the things you don’t like.

Everyone you see who has a great sense of style right now has gone through this experimentation phase at some point in their lives and could likely tell you millions os stories about all the ‘terrible’ outfits they wore before they finally settled on a style. As a total fashion newbie, you can do your best to speed up that process, but you still need to go through it.

My advice: Make it fun, but effective. Actively seek out new styles, colours and silhouettes that are outside of your typical comfort zone, all for the sake of research. Set the stakes super low to avoid overwhelm: Go into stores just to try on a bunch of stuff, take mental or actual notes of what you like/dislike and leave again without buying anything.

A helpful way to push yourself out of your comfort zone is to set yourself little challenges. For example, go into a store you have never bought anything from and challenge yourself to find a complete outfit that you like and would wear. Or try on that one piece that you love on other people but think you can’t pull off yourself, and see if you can build an outfit around it.