Your personality plays a big part in your personal sense of style. Knowing yourself is therefore essential to understanding why you choose the clothing you wear every day. Here are some ideas to consider the next time you open your closet doors or decide to do some shopping for yourself.

• The Vicarious: You wear the clothes that other people like or buy for you. You live vicariously through their ideas of you and have not yet acknowledged your own sense of self so your style is not defined
• The Shopaholic: Whether you will ever wear what you buy does not seem to matter because you buy it anyway. Your closet is full of clothes with no rhyme or reason to them so you never have a complete outfit wear
• The Sale Addict: You scout the sales racks to get the very best deals. You are buying based on price alone. Style tends not to matter so again, your closet is full of stuff that you will never wear OR have forgotten all about.
• The Age Blocked: You became emotionally attached to a particular time in your life and have been dressing for it ever since. You stopped being aware of current fashion trends during a particular year and have never looked back. What are those clothes saying about you TODAY
• The Repeat Offender: How many pairs of black slacks or black tops and jackets do you own? Are you sure that the colour Black is a good one for your skin tone? Why do you have so much of the same colour in your closet?
• The Closet-Paralyzed: You love to shop and have money to spend. You have closets full of beautiful clothes (many of them duplicates) and you never have an occasion to wear them. Are you shopping with your lifestyle in mind or just shopping? What are you going to with all those clothes!!
• The Size-Deluded: You buy big, baggy clothes to cover the extra pounds OR you prefer the look of tight-fitting clothes because you feel they make you look thinner. Have you honestly looked in a full-length mirror lately? Buying your size is essential.
• The Colour Blind: Big prints and loud colours make you feel good but what is doing to the people around you? Is this style working for your body type and stature?

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