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Monday, July 7, 2025

Style and your Self-esteem

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Rochelle Rahim
2123 days ago
20190919

We’ve talked be­fore about how style af­fects your mood, but did you know it can ac­tu­al­ly have a pos­i­tive (or neg­a­tive) im­pact on your self-es­teem and lev­els of con­fi­dence? Self-es­teem is de­fined as “your over­all sense of self-worth”, or in gen­er­al how you feel about your­self. Lots of things con­tribute (to self-es­teem), but did you know that your per­son­al style has a part to play?

If you were to ask your­self “Who am I and how would I like to show up in the world?”; some­where along the line, you will re­alise that your per­son­al style is in­volved since it re­flects who you are, and com­mu­ni­cates to oth­ers how you feel about your­self. So how ex­act­ly does style af­fect your self-es­teem?

The Pow­er of Choice

The great thing about per­son­al style is you choose what you want peo­ple see or know about you. In por­tray­ing self-con­fi­dence, you can use the things that are strongest or what you feel the most con­fi­dent about. Every time be­fore step­ping out, you get to say what you want to por­tray and that in it­self builds con­fi­dence. It al­so al­lows you to trust your choic­es in what’s best for your body and your mind. Once the great style choic­es be­come habits, so too will how you feel about your­self in gen­er­al.

Change Your Clothes, Change Your Life

We’ve all heard about dress­ing for the job you want and not the one you have, well this is al­most the same con­cept. It doesn’t mean chang­ing your­self but sim­ply, what you wear. If you’ve al­ways worn clothes that do not fit your body type/ shape, or colours that don’t go well with your com­plex­ion, your lev­els of com­fort and con­fi­dence di­min­ish. How­ev­er, have you ever worn an out­fit and that is im­mac­u­late­ly made and you just feel com­plete? Find­ing styles, colours, cloth­ing shapes and even tex­tures just en­hance what al­ready ex­ists nat­u­ral­ly, so it im­proves your at­ti­tude to­wards get­ting things done. Now imag­ine putting this in­to prac­tice every day, and learn­ing what works for you. Wear­ing what works for you opens up to a whole new world, ba­si­cal­ly a whole new you. Sim­ply put, chang­ing your clothes, can change your life.

Look Good, Feel Great

When you look frumpy, you tend to feel frumpy too. So, when you put ef­fort in­to your ap­pear­ance, you not on­ly look good but you feel good about your­self. It re­minds you that you can con­trol how you feel about your­self, and just how em­pow­er­ing it is to look and feel great.

Have you ever seen some­one com­mand a room sim­ply from the con­fi­dence they ex­ude and by what they’re wear­ing? Dress­ing well is of­ten syn­ony­mous with be­ing pow­er­ful be­cause when you look good and feel great, it shows. Once you feel em­pow­ered and see your­self as pow­er­ful, it al­so builds your con­fi­dence, so en­sure what you put on your body makes you feel great.

Your Per­son­al Brand

Every in­di­vid­ual rep­re­sents his/her per­son­al brand. There­fore, what you wear and how you present your­self is one as­pect of your brand. When you think of a brand, what do you think about? - The colours, lo­gos, peo­ple that rep­re­sent it, what it stands for, a mot­to, a mis­sion, a vi­sion etcetera. So, who you are and what you would like to project, can be seen in what you wear. And what you wear, can say ex­act­ly how you feel about your­self, and in this case, that’s con­fi­dent. You’ll al­ways feel your best when dressed in a way that ex­press­es your au­then­tic self. Once you’ve mint­ed your brand as one that is con­fi­dent, you will al­ways re­flect that in what you wear.

Do you see the link be­tween your style and self-es­teem and are you go­ing to dress to be your most con­fi­dent self?


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