But you can call me Hazel Eye 007 (jk).
As of writing this post, I’m a college sophomore. My current major is Liberal Arts, with concentrations in Developmental Psychology, Language and Expression, and Logic and Critical Thinking. I also have two minors: Spanish and Honors. Honestly, I’m not sure what I want to do with my life. I maybe want to grad school. But what to specialize in? Library Science? Design? English? Counseling? Or I could get a job. Desk job? Teacher’s assistant? Retail?
Who knows what’ll happen? But there is one thing certain for me…
… I LOVE fashion.
I’ve always been interested in fashion. For a while I wanted to go to a design school, but those ended up being too expensive for me. In high school I took FACS classes (Family and Consumer Science for all you non-nerds out there), and was Secretary for my school’s FCCLA chapter. Both of these allowed me to explore my creative side, but I was made to feel like liking fashion made you dumb (yay! internalized misogyny!) so I ended up originally majoring in Psychology and Criminology, and then Biology when I was told that humanities in general was a dumb person field. This made me miserable.
I am much more confident now (thank goodness), and I am allowing myself to major in something that some people might judge me for. But let them think I’m dumb! At least I’m not having panic attacks in chem lab.
You may be wondering, what is my style? Good question. I’m not entirely sure myself.
On depression days, I wear jeans, a t-shirt, and a hoodie. Those are the days where I would love to put more effort in my appearance, but literally can’t bring myself to move.
In high school I was a wannabe punk rocker. I listened to Fall Out Boy nonstop (I still love them by the way), and wore black eyeliner and skinny jeans. Lots of the clothes I wore then I still own and incorporate into my wardrobe because they aren’t that old and I can’t afford new clothes that often. I still wear combat boots religiously and have my septum pierced from 10th grade.
Some days I’m feeling girly and romantic. I love ruffled blouses and midi-length skirts. The history nerd in me wants to wear corsets and silk negligees, and all of my jewelry is vintage.
Other days I want to look edgy and masculine. I own a button down Hawaiian shirt for this reason, as well as countless pleather pieces that I’ve worn to death.
When it comes down to it, I don’t think not picking a style is a bad thing. I encourage you to wear whatever makes you comfortable without worrying if you’re “on-brand’ enough. I advocate wearing used clothing, and owning things that you really love.
While I’m in this in-between phase- before my life really gets going- I’m going to try blogging. Who knows, maybe this will be what I was missing the whole time?
Cheers,
Evelyn
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