Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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Yaahh, Kok Ga SAMA Siyy…!!
Nada kesel bercampur sedikit rasa kecewa spontan keluar dari mulutnya ditengah rentetan cerita yang dengan antusias sedang dia share ke teman-temannya.
Beberapa hari sebelumnya, dia ceritakan sosok orang yang hanya pakai kaos oblong dan celana jeans dilengkapi dengan sandal jepit sebagai alas kakinya. Style berpakaian orang yang dilihatnya di salah satu akun instgram ini bikin dia kepincut. Dia kepincut dengan style yang dia bilang “cool”.
Seperti umumnya orang, kalau sudah kepincut dengan cara berpakaian orang yang dipujanya, bawaannya suka pengen juga bisa seperti pujaannya tersebut.
Singkat cerita, ditirunyalah style pujaannya. Tapi sayangnya, setelah dia tiru stylenya ‘plek’, kok dia tidak merasakan kesan “cool” seperti yang dibayangkannya.
Saya bisa paham dengan kekesalannya. Saya bisa paham dengan rasa kecewanya yang dia ungkapkan siang itu di workshop INDA Boutique (www.indabutik.com).
Dan pertanyaannya kenapa itu bisa berbeda? Padahal kan sudah sama…..sudah pake kaos oblong juga, sudah pake jeans juga plus sudah pakai sendal jepit pula.
Sepertinya ada satu hal yang terlupa atau mungkin belum dia pahami kenapa itu bisa terjadi.
“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever” (Ralph Lauren).
“Style is something each of us already has, all we need to od is find it” (Diane Von Fustenberg).
Kalau lihat dari 2 kutipan di atas, ternyata setiap dari kita sudah punya style masing-masing atau gampangnya adalah karakter diri. Karakter inilah yang membedakan style berpakaian dari tiap-tiap orang.
Jadi supaya cara berpakaiankita bisa “grooming”, so kenali karakter kita. Dari situ kita bisa paham style berpakaian yang bikin kita “grooming” itu seperti apa.
Seperti tante Rachel Zoe bilang (bukan tante saya ya yang ini siy…) “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak”.
Jadi jelas kan ya, bahwa style itu cara kita menyampaikan siapa diri kita kepada orang lain.
Ahhh, ini baru ngomongin style dan karakter ya…belum lagi kita ngomongin “siluet” baju yang bikin kita bisa dapat kesan “cool”.
Ternyata pakai baju itu ga cuma sekedar pakai aja yaa….ada trik-triknya supaya bisa dapat kesan yag diinginkan.
Selamat meng-eksplorasi diri Anda….!
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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