I had my first fashion identity crisis at the end of high school, and it makes sense why, right?
In high school, I'm wearing skinny jeans, I'm wearing ugg boots, I'm wearing converse, I'm wearing vans, I'm wearing a hollister t shirt, I'm wearing a pacsun beanie.
I'm wearing cringy, weird sunglasses.
You know, I'm dressing like a high schooler.
The second that I left high school, I had a crisis.
Why?
Because what's cool in high school is not really cool in the real world.
When you're in high school, you're in a little bubble, and keeping up with the trends is much easier.
In a way, all of the people that you could ever copy are right in front of you.
In high school, I was starting to become exposed to the fashion world outside of my school because of instagram.
But it hadn't quite seeped into my personal life because I was more focused on being trendy at my school and within my community.
The second that I left school, everything changed.
I didn't go to college.
So the second that I left high school, my community was now the real world and the Internet and what's cool and what's trendy is completely different.
So I had sort of a crisis, and it wasn't a negative crisis, okay?
I don't think it was unhealthy.
It was more of an epiphany.
Like, I wanna get into fashion more in a real world type of way.
So I started thrifting.
I started heavily pinteresting.