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Constance Grady

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207 total appearances

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Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

I used to be self-conscious about my legs, but I've recently realized it's none of my business what people think I look like.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

I used to be self-conscious about my legs, but I've recently realized it's none of my business what people think I look like.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

Do you know what? I've just accepted I'm a big girl. All of which I think has kind of helped make space for people to think, OK, maybe the point of clothes isn't always to make me look as thin as they possibly can. You know, maybe this can be a place for more joyful self-expression that doesn't involve trying to conform to a very specific standard of beauty. Economically,

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

Do you know what? I've just accepted I'm a big girl. All of which I think has kind of helped make space for people to think, OK, maybe the point of clothes isn't always to make me look as thin as they possibly can. You know, maybe this can be a place for more joyful self-expression that doesn't involve trying to conform to a very specific standard of beauty. Economically,

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

Do you know what? I've just accepted I'm a big girl. All of which I think has kind of helped make space for people to think, OK, maybe the point of clothes isn't always to make me look as thin as they possibly can. You know, maybe this can be a place for more joyful self-expression that doesn't involve trying to conform to a very specific standard of beauty. Economically,

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

As fast fashion has taken off, the trend cycle has sped up so much that it is actually kind of impossible now to keep pace with trends the way you might have been able to 10 or 20 years before. So the idea of finding your personal style becomes really attractive in that situation because it's a way of releasing yourself from the trend cycle and from the textile waste that goes along with it.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

As fast fashion has taken off, the trend cycle has sped up so much that it is actually kind of impossible now to keep pace with trends the way you might have been able to 10 or 20 years before. So the idea of finding your personal style becomes really attractive in that situation because it's a way of releasing yourself from the trend cycle and from the textile waste that goes along with it.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

As fast fashion has taken off, the trend cycle has sped up so much that it is actually kind of impossible now to keep pace with trends the way you might have been able to 10 or 20 years before. So the idea of finding your personal style becomes really attractive in that situation because it's a way of releasing yourself from the trend cycle and from the textile waste that goes along with it.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

The final reason I have is more materials-based. This is one that comes from Kibbe himself, who I cannot escape, which is that around the 1980s, we started to put a lot more elastic in clothing than we used to before. And this has fundamentally changed the way fabric looks on our bodies.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

The final reason I have is more materials-based. This is one that comes from Kibbe himself, who I cannot escape, which is that around the 1980s, we started to put a lot more elastic in clothing than we used to before. And this has fundamentally changed the way fabric looks on our bodies.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

The final reason I have is more materials-based. This is one that comes from Kibbe himself, who I cannot escape, which is that around the 1980s, we started to put a lot more elastic in clothing than we used to before. And this has fundamentally changed the way fabric looks on our bodies.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

So what Kibbe says is that with elastic in our clothing, the silhouette stops being about the externally imposed shape of the clothes on our bodies and starts being about the way our bodies are shaping the clothes we wear.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

So what Kibbe says is that with elastic in our clothing, the silhouette stops being about the externally imposed shape of the clothes on our bodies and starts being about the way our bodies are shaping the clothes we wear.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

So what Kibbe says is that with elastic in our clothing, the silhouette stops being about the externally imposed shape of the clothes on our bodies and starts being about the way our bodies are shaping the clothes we wear.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

And that means that there's suddenly this huge possibility of what clothes can look like on us that has totally shifted the way that we can even let ourselves think about fashion.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

And that means that there's suddenly this huge possibility of what clothes can look like on us that has totally shifted the way that we can even let ourselves think about fashion.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

And that means that there's suddenly this huge possibility of what clothes can look like on us that has totally shifted the way that we can even let ourselves think about fashion.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

I don't really know that I found my personal style. I learned a lot about the kinds of shapes and colors and fabrics that I like. I think the main thing that I figured out was what fantasy the idea of finding your personal style is serving. For me, I think that fantasy is the idea of having some control over your individuality.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

I don't really know that I found my personal style. I learned a lot about the kinds of shapes and colors and fabrics that I like. I think the main thing that I figured out was what fantasy the idea of finding your personal style is serving. For me, I think that fantasy is the idea of having some control over your individuality.

Today, Explained
Why is personal style so hard?

I don't really know that I found my personal style. I learned a lot about the kinds of shapes and colors and fabrics that I like. I think the main thing that I figured out was what fantasy the idea of finding your personal style is serving. For me, I think that fantasy is the idea of having some control over your individuality.