So I just had a blow-dry done,
and I don't like it.
It's a bit like too straight for my taste.
It makes my face look so round.
Let me know in the comment section what you think,
but this is not a keeper.
My dear elegant ladies!
Welcome back to my channel,
so I'm going to talk to you about
things that I stopped wearing,
and we're talking mainly fashion.
If you are new to my channel, my name is Anna
and I run an online finishing school where I teach women
about high society and elegance.
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www.SchoolOfAffluence.com.
Okay ladies, so I'm going to try and go back
to memory lane with you today because I'm going
to think a little bit about the things that I've worn
in the past that I've stopped wearing.
So let's dig into number one.
So one of the things that I've stopped wearing,
and I don't know if it's a fashion thing.
To be honest with you might also be an age thing,
but I stopped wearing stilettos.
What I call very high heels.
Because there's so many different heights in heels.
I would say the heels that I wear are medium height,
usually around 10 centimeters I wear.
Before I could easily wear 14 15 centimeters.
Today if I look at shoes like that,
and I do have a few at home that I just cannot
get rid of I don't know why.
But I look at them and I'm like, how was I even able
to walk in these?
If you are somebody who wants to be more elegant,
and wants to come across more serious,
more sophisticated and formal, then you cannot wear heels
like that, it's just too much right.
So you have to stick around the ten centimeter maximum mark.
And this is definitely a must is you are
in any professional occasions
if you are in a very formal settings.
Formal settings does not include that you can wear
sexy attributes and stilettos kinda goes
in that direction.
It becomes a little bit too much.
So just a last note on these stilettos,
there is currently this fashion trend that women tend
to not wear heels so much at the moment.
At the moment, we are being more casual, we wear more
sneakers and flats.
To be quite honest, I'm not fully against it
even though I think perhaps it's a little bit too casual.
But I do think it's great that women get the chance
to rest their feet you know.
We shouldn't all the time be in heels,
but I just think that perhaps, always wearing sneakers
everywhere even to very fancy environments, I think that's
pushing it a little bit too far.
But I think it's time for the shoe Gods to invent some shoes
for us that are beautiful, elegant, formal, but very casual.
I feel like so far, there's no such shoes,
but anyway just my two cents.
So the number two thing that I stopped wearing,
and I guess this happened quite naturally when I did
my transformation and leveled up my lifestyle
is I stopped purchasing cheap clothing of cheap fabric.
Clothing that easily if you washed the item
a few times, the garment would lose it's shape
or lose it's color.
I think definitely the worse is when
it loses the color because I remember, I used
to feel like, "Oh my god I feel so ugly in this."
And that was kind of always my motivation
to why I wanted to have the funds for more designer items,
for more high quality clothing because I was tired
of purchasing things that I only wore a few times,
and then it was just like throw in the bin.
It's not environmentally friendly and I'm sure you're aware
of this so I think it's also like our responsibility not
to pollute, not to harm the planet
more than we already doing so this is a responsibility
for each and everybody.
But for me personally, I remember having clothing
that okay it looked perfect when you bought it in Zara okay.
And you wore it the first time you looked fabulous
in it because it looked great.
But then once you washed it, you're looking at that thing
and you're wondering, "Is this really what I bought?"
So no for me, that's something I stopped wearing,
and I rather buy less, I rather purchase less items.
But at least they're higher quality,
but they won't lose the shape,
and they won't lose the color,
and they won't make me feel cheap, right?
That's one of the things that I've always felt
like clothing that makes you feel cheap,
what's the point wearing them?
So the third thing that I stopped wearing
is Babydoll style tops.
I'm gonna show a picture so that
you ladies know exactly what is I'm talking about.
Okay I'm gonna be honest, this type of garment used
to be quite fashionable, but this was like ages ago.
So it could be that I was wearing it because
it was trendy back then.
You can still find these baby doll tops everywhere.
And sometimes I can even find a more expensive brand
make them and I wonder to myself, "How could I wear this?"
And I will probably never wear it again.
I would understand somebody who has an apple shaped body
who would wear it.
Then I think it's pretty much appropriate and yes why not?
But me personally I don't have an apple shaped body,
and it just makes you look a little bit more bulkier.
And one of the things that I really understood
the importance of tailored clothing,
and I'm sure you heard me say this a thousand times ladies,
but it's not only about the fact that tailored clothing or
like clothing that are more showing off your body shape
make you look a little bit more expensive.
But it's actually because even with the opposite sex,
it's just more attractive.
It just makes you look more feminine,
and I just feel like wearing something
that makes you a little bit more bulky goes against that.
So I've stopped wearing anything that makes me look bulkier.
I think some clothing that are a little bit oversized
that bulks you up in more fashionable ways,
I think definitely that is a nice, chic detail,
but something that is kind of I don't know.
Babydoll just feels a bit cheesier for me,
but I'm not dismissing it completely because I think
on some body shapes, it can actually be quite suitable.
Number four skinny jeans.
Skinny jeans have been in fashion for such a long time now.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with skinny jeans.
I think skinny jeans can be quite nice looking,
but only if you have the body for it.
Again.
So this is the thing
that skinny jeans have definitely been
in fashion for oh my gosh, how many years now
and everybody's wearing them.
Everybody who don't even have the body for it
is wearing them and this is kinda where skinny jeans
have gone wrong.
In my personal opinion feel free to disagree if you want,
but I feel like unless you have long legs
and they're slim, you shouldn't be wearing skinny jeans.
My legs for instance one of the things I hate the most
with my legs is that I have quite large calves.
And for many years I was wearing skinny jeans,
and I couldn't figure out why I always felt
like a sausage wearing skinny jeans.
But I was still wearing them and even worse I
was wearing them with ballerinas which
is like, okay you can at least wear them with heels
to make your legs appear a little bit longer.
So I had an aha moment one day.
I talk to myself, "This is why I don't look like Kate Moss
when I wear this."
This is why because I have a totally different body shape.
I have more muscular legs, I just do not suit
wearing something like that.
So I started looking into alternatives, of course
so I figured out, oh my gosh I know exactly what type
of trousers suit me, something that
is not maybe a showing off my calves that I don't like.
So I think maybe that is not too tight around my calves.
Like this is how you actually start understanding
what works on you and what doesn't.
So skinny jeans is something that I do
have a few still left in my wardrobe,
but I only wear them with boots.
So for boots actually skinny jeans
are quite convenient but for the rest, no.
And by the way, I'm sure some of you are wondering
why I'm talking about jeans since
you don't often see me wear jeans.
Well I do wear often times white jeans,
so and I don't have a few dark jeans as well.
And the black ones and they're not skinny so they're perfect
for like everyday casual looks.
Okay so let's talk about number six because we're talking
about jeans might as well continue the conversation.
What I put on number six was actually uncomfortable jeans.
And this is actually the true reason to why I decided
to cut down on my jeans wearing because I used to wear jeans
all the time before especially before I started leveling up.
I come from a country, Sweden, which is very much into
comfortable fashion, casual fashion.
People don't really dress up so much,
so the Swedes, they love their jeans.
So I also used to wear a lot of jeans back in the days.
Maybe that's why I can't stand it, I don't know.
But I just always felt that unless it's stretched jeans,
jeans are just so uncomfortable.
I have hips that are quite wide,
so I really also struggle sometimes,
feeling really comfortable around my hip area.
And there's nothing worse when you just feel pain
when you sit down or you feel like you cannot breath.
I still have a few jeans like that.
I don't know why I don't throw them away.
So when I started thinking about alternatives,
I realized that actually, trousers tend
to be a much more comfortable than jeans
and they actually look better.
So that was initially why I started wearing more trousers,
and after a while, I also realized that well,
with trousers, it is so much easier to look elegant
to not look too casual, you always look
a little bit more formal than too casual.
And for my environment, it just made more sense
to stick to something that is a little bit more formal
than casual because like that,
I never ended up feeling underdressed.
Number seven, black.
But okay, hold your horses.
I haven't stopped wearing black but I have cut down a lot.
So okay, I need to tell you a little bit more history here.
So ladies I go a lot in phases.
I am an Aries, I can change my mind
from time to time on things.
That's just who I am, that's normal.
Take it or leave it.
And I also go a lot in phases.
It could be what I listen to, could
be what I eat, could be what I wear and so on.
You get the picture, but there was a very long phase,
probably lasted about two years where I
was probably wearing black everyday.
And there was this thought in me back then
that maybe black is my signature.
I wanted to have a signature outfit like Steve Jobs.
So you don't have to waste too much time thinking about
what to dress because it's just simplifies
your life so much.
And it's true, it simplified my life so much
because when I was shopping I went straight
to the black clothing.
I could immediately see black clothes, black clothes.
And it was so easy to buy items because you only wear black,
you obviously can mix and match
black with each other easily.
And it's a no brainer type of thing.
So shopping time, I managed to cut down dramatically.
Selecting outfits also cut down dramatically.
I cut down so much in my brain
just thinking about these clothes
so that was kind of my reason to why I wanted
to have black as my signature and that
was going to be the only thing I wore.
Okay, it might work for some but it doesn't work for me.
I managed to do this maybe for two years
and then I just could not stand black after a while.
I do wear black still though, it doesn't mean
that I don't wear it but I literally
do not wear black as much.
So instead I went to the opposite.
Now I have to wear white, beige, or like light gray
or light pink basically pastels.
I assume because the black was dark,
and now I just have to do the total opposite.
You know it's like I'm going
from one extreme to another right.
But I'm starting to actually get myself
a little bit out of the pastel phase too
because it's a phase.
I think I'm on my second year now.
I might I don't know yet, but I might get into colors soon.
This is how I am.
This is very typical me.
But if anybody recognized themselves
and especially if you're an Aries please let me know.
Being your own stylist and dressing yourself
is a full time job.
Just hunting for clothing, knowing what suits you,
figuring things out, deciding items, buying items.
Oh my god, it takes so much time.
I'm actually thinking about getting
a stylist just to save myself some time.
If you know a good stylist, let me know in the comments.
Ladies that was it for me.
Make sure to watch my video, These Shoes Are Not Classy,
if you still haven't watched that one.
Now I will see you in the next video.