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Accessories.

I don’t care what you or anyone says about accessories unless you’re telling me that they are, quite literally, the most important part of a fashionable ensemble.  Accessories are, definitively, the most important tools in a fashionista’s arsenal with the ability to manifest someone as not a desperately inept soul trying to be “stylish” to someone who truly has an eye for style with the God-given sense to not wear clashing pastels with neon, for example. I, myself, love clashing as long as I have a justifiable reason.

That reason usually consists of looking at whatever I’ve taken out of my abundance of accessories and thrown onto my bed, hoping that something that I’ve dragged out of the honestly unnecessarily large and bursting box that I leave under my bed.  Typically, I just put one thing with another and add on. For example, I just might want to wear my silver belt with my  extremely comfortable and spicy Calvin Klein underwear that just happens to have a silver border, if the primary colors match your pants or shirt—job well done.  Yes.  Undergarments are indeed accessories IF you wear them correctly, the same goes for headbands, shoes, belts, necklaces, bracelets, rings, hair pieces, watches, etc.

In all honestly, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks about what you’re wearing, as long as you love it.  I love clashing, as long as it works and doesn’t make me want to smack myself in the face, but let’s be honest, sometimes we get a bit too adventurous or confident and attempt to match, for example, a new turquoise pair of heels with gold accents with your mustard and brown, plaid skirt and green top with some bronze jewelry and say, “… it’ll do”.  Well, let me tell you, if you look at yourself in the mirror and aren’t completely sure you want people to see you in that in public, don’t even bother. Take it off and switch it up to something not so disconcerting or that makes you want to throw up.  If, however, you really don’t care, more power to you.

I, myself, have had those days when I just HAVE to wear my new clothes but I just can’t seem to find any clean or matching clothes to go with it, but you don’t know me nor could you care less about my struggles.  I just know you’ve probably gone through the same thing, too many times for sure.  It’s completely understandable during a regular day at college or on the weekends, but if you actually plan on going to work or heave forbid, an interview, just stop.

Seriously, don’t.

If you don’t love it, don’t wear it.  I don’t care if you “don’t have anything else to wear”, we all know that is a complete and utter lie.  We have too much to wear, which is usually what screws us over.  The mentality is that “Oh, I want to wear this but I don’t think that that would match.  Maybe I’ll wear these things together.  It doesn’t match…. Ugh, I have NOTHING to wear.”  I know you, that is a lie and you know it too.  Change.  Put something on that doesn’t make you look like antiquated wallpaper.

I know how it is to have too many clothes, if there is such a thing… It does in no way mean that you should try and wear as much as possible. Keep it simple and you will keep from being a train wreck that merits staring down and harsh critique.  This goes more for accessories, the more isn’t necessary the merrier.  It’s comparable to food, if you put too many spices, you’ll ruin the natural flavor of the dish and end up making it a disgusting mash-up of everything that’s been expired in your cupboards in one big sloppy mess.  Sometimes just throwing things together can work; you’re a lucky one.

The fine line that separates chaos from absolute gold can be a tricky one, the trick is to not go overboard.  If the reflection in the mirror overwhelms you, there is something utterly wrong.  Keep it simple and fun!

Clashing colors can work as long as you complement colors with one another, and even then, it sometimes might not work. You have to see it to believe it.  As for materials, don’t mix and match metals, plastics, and woods unless there’s an underlying complement to the ensemble.  Don’t clutter your body, it’s not attractive. It’s usually safe to stick to the general basics and stick to one pattern: grays, black & white, pastels, bolds, (reds, yellows, blues, along with everything in between)—just don’t go overboard or else you’re going to look like Lisa Frank incarnate. Good luck on trying to look presentable!!!

Bold & beautiful. Bold complementary colors just work… Most of the time.

So help me God, if you wear more than one bow at a time….