About 4 years ago my life started to change.  The closer I got to the Lord some things began to awake in me. I truly believe it was a God thing, because until then I had little to no interest in something superficial like fashion.  I’m sure most will find it hard to believe God cares about our sense of style. But the word says He cares about even the smallest things that have to do with us. I believe that this journey in finding my personal style is a direct reflection of that. I don’t know about you but I take comfort in knowing that God doesn’t want His children out here looking a mess. Don’t you?

 I started to view fashion in a differently and I was excited. I immediately ran into a dilemma. I quickly realized how inappropriate majority of my clothes were, and to be honest I was embarrassed. Don’t get me wrong I wasn’t just out there doing the absolute most. But let’s just say I wasn’t a stranger to extra cleavage and a bit of thigh flaunting. Like I said, I was much closer to the Lord then I had ever been. I wanted to feel good about myself be fashionable and, I dressed appropriately and not only to church.

Most people form style sense in their teenage years. I watched kids around me experiment with fashion, hairstyles shoes and accessories. As we grew and changed so did their style. I’ll never forget this one girl I went to school with, lets call her Mandy. After elementary Mandy literally reinvented her style every year no kidding. One year she was hip hop cloths, hair, walk, talk everything. The next year she was into alternative music and dressed accordingly. The year after that she was a totally preppy, trust me it was as entertaining as it sounds.

 As for me, my parents controlled my wardrobe. There was pressure to be fashionable at times but being the obedient child I was I didn’t protest; I wore what I had and rarely asked for more cloths. I later attended a Christian school and wore uniforms, during high school.  I was a relived, no more pressure to have expensive cloths. But students there found ways of expressing themselves while staying within the dress code. Hair accessories, bracelets, necklaces all kinds of things.

Outside of school I never worried about style. I think another part of it had to do with my size, I was always small size 5/6 and to be honest nothing really looked bad on me. I didn’t need to put in much effort into outfits at all, at least that’s what I thought. As far as I was concerned cloths were just cloths.  As Iong as I matched it was all good to me.

 So here I am now thirty something and trying to figure out my personal style. Never in a million years would I have thought I’d be doing this. But I’m ready for the challenge so what do you think? Do you have a personal style, how would you describe it?