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If I had to pick a time of the year where I feel most uninspired by my wardrobe – it has to be January. It’s so cold and I find it really difficult to dress up, but this year I was determined that I would get out of my chunky knits and wear something completely different. End of the year sales were really great for this kind of experiment and it is then I found this really classy blouse at H&M at an unbelievable price. I wanted it the moment I saw it – It was so in sync with my personal style. I loved the print, the fabric and ruffled sleeves, even though it’s mostly the pattern of the buttons and collared neck that got my attention. It’s a really classy blouse. I was so weird to find something so quickly at H&M because I’m mostly coming out with a pair of socks after hunting for something nice for a couple of hours. It’s really funny how these things work. When we didn’t have H&M and all those big stores here, I use to really miss them but now that they are here – I hardly buy anything from them. I find there is too much stuff to handle and I definitely not a kind of shopper were I buy something just because it’s in the trend unless I am really sure about it and really like it. So to see so many different options really diverts my mind and I end up buying nothing.

But I am really really happy with this blouse – it’s just my style and I see myself wearing a lot of it in the summer too. Even though I would have loved to pair this up with high waist jeans and these boots, but then I tried it with the skirt and I absolutely loved it. I think it’s a really cool combination and this also looked great with high waist jeans – that is going to be my combo for extremely cold days!

In junior school, I was an average student. Not too good in my studies and but I participated in a lot of other activities. I was a part of the orchestra and a marching band. Though I was never studious but I also did’t want to be someone who would want to be pin pointed. In many ways, I just wanted to be non-existent. In class I use to to pray – I hope my teacher doesn’t ask me anything. I hope she doesn’t ask me to participate or read out aloud in front of the whole class. I was very under confident. Everyone around me knew that. In high school, my English teacher use to like me and I knew it. I knew she thought of me as a good kid and someone who will never disappoint her (both in grades and behaviour) But with time I changed. I made some friends and made me feel it’s okay to break the rules. Once I missed her lecture and went out with my friends to hang around. She came to know and she was so disappointed in me. God knows how much I cried that night. I never missed a lecture again in school. I made sure I study hard and get good marks.

I was like that for a long long time. I use to care too much about what people think of me and sometimes I would do things that I won’t like or believe in otherwise. Now I keep hearing things like – be yourself. How are we suppose to be ourselves when the constant thing we do is Change! I’m sure your personality has changed since your birth. If it’s a no, you are lying! People change! People discover more and more of themselves everyday and they change. Priorities change. It’s so funny when you change or the way you think change or your priorities change – it is not considered as a good thing and also not being true to yourself. Somehow I feel the whole thing about ‘be yourself’ is not true – it’s about others. People like the way you are right now so don’t change yourself. It’s like saying – be this type of a personality so that you are easy for everyone. I hear people say, oh she has changed! (including myself) – Of course I thought her behaviour changed, but in the end its her day and her life and that’s how she is feeling and its completely ok! We are constantly changing. Our personalities evolve and change (a bit for sure if not completely) over the time!

FIRST FASHION POST 2018

On Being Yourself!