Sometimes, people can mistake the word fashion to mean what is the latest trending clothing item in magazines and on the catwalk of famous runway shows.
However, in reality fashion really refers to your own personal sense of style – and believe it or not, there are numerous benefits to thinking about what you wear more carefully and allowing yourself to express your personality aesthetically. With this in mind, continue reading to learn three ways in which fashion can improve your mood.
1. Color Has a Huge Impact
Firstly, even if you are somebody who always feels much more comfortable in black clothes, it has been well established that different colors have a psychological impact and can make you feel differently as well as evoke various emotions.
Wearing a sunshine yellow scarf, for example, even if you only do so whilst driving to work and take it off again before you leave your vehicle, can trigger feelings of happiness and even energy boosts. Every time you catch yourself in the rear-view mirror, you will also see a flash of bright, warm yellow which can only serve to trigger your brain to thinking, or at least feeling, slightly different, if only for a moment.
The color red has long since been associated with feelings of passion and ambition and the old cliché that you should ‘dress for the job you want, rather than the job you have’ is highly applicable here.
2. Fashion Encourages Personality
Another fundamental way in which fashion can improve your mood and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety is that, once you become more interested in expressing your personal style through clothing and accessories, you automatically become mentally freer – you are not trying to put on an act and be someone you aren’t.
Admiration is always held, even by strangers, by those people who seem to ignore what the current favorited A-List celebrity is wearing and instead choose to dress to convey who they are, or even who they would like to be. This conversation surrounding expressive fashion could well be considered (and is by many), as a form of talk therapy and as such, getting more involved in fashion can certainly be a highly beneficial decision.
3. Tactile People & Different Fabrics
The next time you are walking around a clothes store, or even a grocery store, start to take notice of people who seem to look with their eyes only and those who choose to hold a particular item in their hand whilst they decide whether or not they want to go ahead with the purchase.
This incredibly tactile behavior is one which is highly related to fashion and personal style, and (in a similar way to people who experience social anxiety liking the focus and feel of a fidget toy) different fabrics will evoke different feelings in you.
Start to break out of your comfort zone when it comes to the types of fabrics and materials you usually pick and instead of buying your clothing and accessory pieces online, visit the store in person to feel the different thicknesses and textures.
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