5 Steps To Elevate Your Style

Through this blog post you will understand 5 basic steps to make most of your closet by elevating your personal style. Your style represents your personality and is reflected in what you wear. Elevating your style is a concept where you find different ways to create more outfits in an affordable budget. It is an art of combing different types of outfits to achieve a stylish look without trying too hard.

Step 1: Start A Capsule Wardrobe to Elevate Your Style 

Less is always more! A capsule wardrobe consists of the essential items you need in your closets and the items that do not go out of fashion. It is important to keep only the items you will wear, a woman can have up to 100 items in a closet, however you eventually forget about it. You essentially do a capsule wardrobe that you did not know about.  

Dime Tips: Capsule Wardrobe

1. Create a Capsule Wardrobe 

2. Read my other blog about how to style basic clothes

3. Keep only the outfits you will be wearing on a day-day basis 

4. Recycle or Donate the clothes you do not wear 

5.  Only purchase what you need on a budget 

Step 2: Incorporate Accessories Effortlessly 

Accessories are an asset to your outfit; they can make your outfit shine! You can sparkle your minimalistic outfit look with jewellery and give it the finishing touch it deserves. You can either go for a less and easy look or glam it up with a boho look.

Dime Tips: Add Jewellery 

1.   Buy bracelets or necklaces of a colour that you will wear everyday: Silver, Rose Gold, Gold

2.     You don’t have to invest in expensive jewellery, you can layer up 2-3 chains 

3.  Affordable necklaces can be found on Shein

Step 3: Look For Outfit Inspirations on Pinterest or Instagram

Pinterest and Instagram are my favourite inspiration for outfits, literally anything you search you will receive results for the pictures you are looking for. Before trying out a specific trend, I always end up looking at Pinterest or Instagram for inspirations. It helps you to plan future outfits by understanding how to pair up different items of clothing.

Dime Tips: Styling through Instagram or Pinterest 

1.    Follow style accounts for daily reminds on Instagram

2.     List down ideas on how to rewear clothes

3.     Learn different trends such as the art of layering clothing items  

Follow accounts on Instagram:

@ootdmagazine

@americanstyle

@freyakillin

Step 4: Rewear and Repeat

Fast fashion can be polluting to the environment, hence understanding the concepts of rewear and repeat is essential for sustainable environment. The secret to elevating your style is essentially about being creative with what you already own. 

Dime Tips: 

1. Wear one pair of tops in 10 different ways 

2. Keep minimalistic clothes in your closet 

Step 5: Layering Clothes 

Layering is a step that is useful for every single outfit, especially winter months. It is easy when to tone down to one or two colours, different colour combinations work well with each other such as burgundy and green, navy and mustard, black and a tan brown. Layering with jackets is easier and adding necklace chains can make your outfit shine.

Dime Tips: Easy Layering 

1.Stick to one bulky item, either a coat, chunky sweater, chunky turtle neck or a big scarf

2. Experiment with different layered looks until you find the one you love

3. Layer with items from your own closets 

Elevating your style can be done easily, following these 5 steps you can easily get your style to be sustainable and easy to create. There are multiple looks you can create using these steps and be sure to tag @styleondimes on Instagram for a chance to be featured on our stories!