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Why I Gave My Wardrobe A Makeover

It's not for the reason you think.

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Why I Gave My Wardrobe A Makeover
Sydney Freeman

If you're anything like me, you love leggings, t-shirts, sweatpants, and just honestly anything that is comfortable. In my life, I had never really been the type to wear the cutest clothes, and honestly I never really worried about it at all. I was comfortable and that was really all that mattered to me. However, last year was my freshman year of college, and that is when I started to feel a little differently about what I was wearing every day. Many girls were wearing dresses or skirts or nice pants and blouses to class, and I was wearing a comfy sweatshirt and leggings. To be clear, I still am aware that there is nothing wrong with what I was wearing to class before, but after making some observations and listening to those around me, I realized the reasons why I might want to switch up my look.

First of all, I realized how important it is to dress for you and nobody else. This isn't a change that I made to fit in with the people around me, and of course I am not the only person who prefers comfort over style. However, I realized that when I feel like I look good, whether I put a little more makeup on, or when I wear a cute outfit, I act differently. I'm more likely to be more social, or to raise my hand in class, and just more likely to be generally happier. Dressing well brings me a kind of confidence that I never had before.

I obviously like to be comfortable like I mentioned before, but I also tended to wear clothes that hid my body. Wearing clothes that don't hide my body are not easy for me to wear, and often I just have to get dressed and leave my room because if I stay near my closet I will totally chicken out and find something else that is easier to wear. I know wearing the nicer outfit will be beneficial to me in the end, and hopefully soon clothes that I'm afraid of now will end up being clothes that I can feel totally comfortable in in the future. For a long time, I thought that there were things that I couldn't wear because of my body type, and for a long time I have been trying to change my body in order to wear those things. What I've realized is that I can wear anything, and I just need to take risks and have fun because this body is my body, and I want to dress it as well as I can and show it off for what it is now because it doesn't deserve to be hidden.

Take risks in what you wear. Embrace your body for what it is and not for what you wish it could be. Wear what you want to wear, whether that is leggings and a sweatshirt, or a look that you've been wanting to try for a while now, and make sure to have fun doing it.

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