old, and not hip

[mizkit]

I've developed the bad habit of watching stupid little "styling" reels on FB, very few of which are any good at all.

This last one was "what I thrifted vs how I styled it" - literally a shot each of the dress, jewelry, handbag & boots, which she then...put on. There was no 'styling'.

Why do I do this.

I mean, in this particular case, it was actually a good look. She'd made good choices. But I think 'styling' is a wild overstatement for what she was doing. I was expecting a revamped dress, at least?

There was another one that was like "how to style to hide you're wearing the same dress every day" which was, you know, wear a different coat/shoes/blouse/whatever, which, IDK, man, I'd just call that getting dressed.

I'm old, aren't I. Old, and not hip. :D

(A college friend of mine who got the same reel was like, 'I also thought, "Woah. You can dress yourself. Go you!"' which, not gonna lie, made me feel better. laughs)

Comments

[mrissa]

I can see a very few edge cases: I've had a few skirts with weird waists where I've had trouble figuring out what shirts to even wear them with, how the designer meant it to look and whether there were other options that even could work at all, and in those cases the "getting dressed" kind of styling would have been helpful.

But honestly I feel like in most cases they're saying "wear it well vs. poorly" or "wear it a way I like vs. a way I don't like."

[mizkit]

Right, I see your point, although I'd still call weird-waist problems more "how to wear this awkward item" than "styling," per se. To me, I guess, 'styling' is...I don't even know at this point. I mean like the girl this particular annoying video was in was stylISH, as in, had a specific vibe of hippie girl with cowboy boots kinda thing, like, it was A Look, but she didn't do anything, er, creative? To achieve the look? She bought all the parts as-is and put them on. It wasn't even "tie your t-shirt in a knot at the side" levels of 'alter the original items to suit the look.'

So, ok, I guess that's it: apparently I feel '*styling*' requires a certain amount of individual creativity in altering the parts to create a more interesting or unique look than the whole will achieve on its own, or something. :)