Black dress and accessories.
What “The Look” Is About
People talk a lot about how they look and who has the best “look.” “The look” is all about getting folk to actually “see” you and to like what they see. Cultures around the world differ with respect to aesthetic standards, but symmetry, fitness, and color play a major role in what people consider pleasing to look it. Your body is a major part of the equation that determines whether you have “the look.” Clothes or fashion are the other part, and in my opinion, they play a lesser role. Part of having “the look” is your attitude about yourself vis-à-vis yourself. You wear the clothes – the clothes do not wear you.
Fashion-Fitness
A fit, healthy body is an excellent fashion statement. Knowing your body well and working daily to keep up a state of physical, mental, and spiritual health is essential to a life of minimal sickness and greatest beauty. Societies have different standards for beauty and. Remember, these standards are not absolute, and they are not universally applicable. For instance, women of color had to struggle for centuries for acceptance by the Western fashion industry, not because they lacked beauty, but because of racial prejudice – an ideology that is a pox on the soul of any nation.
Steps to Take
To find your best physical beauty, take a good long look at yourself, (naked of course), in a full length mirror. Slowly take in your physical reality, front, side, and back. Allow yourself to absorb how you look, not to criticize or belittle, but rather to know. Get on a scale and make a note of your weight. If you are overweight, sit down with your doctor and put together a sensible plan for gradual weight loss based on exercise and a healthy diet plan. The references at the end of this post include some articles that I wrote that can help you to become fashion-fit.
As you watch your diet and exercise, burning more calories than you take in, you will start to lose weight. As you lose weight, your ideal physical being as you were genetically gifted to be will become more visible. This will change how you see yourself, and that’s a good thing. As you change, your fashion choices should also change. A preference for brown or black can shift to red or blue. Don’t cling to the old, but rather embrace the new you.
Body & Soul
Inner harmony makes you look radiant. Sync the color, textures, form and fit of the clothes you wear with what you feel and see about your inner-self. How you see yourself will spill over into what you wear. Ninjas are a great example of this: secrecy, speed, deadly fighting skills, and stealth, go with machine sleek bodies and black clothing. If your perception of yourself resonates with earth tones, then you should go with that- and use other colors like orange, yellow or white as accents.
Get Down to the Basics
So get out your pen and paper, and make a list of where you are now physically, mentally and spiritually. When you finish, make another list for how you want these things to change. Put the two lists side by side, then make a third list of the steps you have to take to get where you want to be. Having a notebook to document your journey to fashion-fitness will help you stay on target.
Verneda Lights
Twitter handle: @vlights
References
Livestrong.com; How Much Weight Can I Lose in 40 Days?
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