Lifestyle: Active

If you find yourself in yoga pants more often than jeans, you may have an active lifestyle. Exercise and wellness are important to you and even when you are not officially in work out clothes you must be comfortable enough to fall into a pick up game of soccer at any moment. It is important that your clothing be comfortable, breathable, and flexible. Stick to fabrics like cotton that absorb moisture and make sure that your jeans have spandex in them to keep up with your active life. Not active? Take a peek at another lifestyle role.

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Love Your Lifestyle

The next component of your personal style is lifestyle. You  have different roles to perform each day and with those roles come accompanying uniforms. A typical day may take you from the office, to the gym, to a girls night out. As you slip into each role, you trade your clothing to match, just like the paper dolls you played with as a girl. You may take on the role of corporate woman, work out guru, and party girl all within the same day! In order to make your clothing work for you it must fit in with your daily activities. It doesn't matter how much you may love that romantic, fluffy pink couture gown, if you can't wear it to chase your kids around at the park, it's not going to work for you. The trick is to find pieces that fit your personality and your life. Come along as we explore several different lifestyles and their matching ensembles. You may find you fit in with more than one.  

Fashion Personality: Jenna

Let's take a look at Fashion Personality in action. For this project I had the pleasure of interviewing Jenna. When it comes to style, Jenna says, "I think I can safely say that I have probably gone through all of those fashion identities and then some (think The Used goth stage-weird)." Jenna has always had a look that is individually her own. She is aware of the current trends, and incorporates them in her own way. She likes to be in style but in a way that never looks like everyone else. She has also recently been accepted into the graphic design program at B.Y.U. where her style is now influenced by the clean lines, bold colors, and graphic prints she works with on a daily basis. This leads Jenna’s signature style to be both dramatic because she loves bold color and knows fashion trends, and modern (a sub-category of classic), because she favors simple silhouettes, geometric prints, and artistically inspired pieces. When describing her personal style, Jenna says, "My personal style is clean (think "less is more"), modern, with luxurious textures, fabrics, and colors to make the outfit more interesting."

One of my favorite things about Jenna's style is that it is hard to capture and impossible to duplicate, however I have come up with a few ensembles that are Jenna inspired!