Womens Fashion Accessories

What does your fashion accessory say about you?

Another Point of View by our guest student, Liz Rudenko

When observing the various people walking our streets, it is rare to see that one single person that stands out from the pack. Most people are so afraid of fashion being ‘not cool or ‘outside the box’. They are happy to simply wear the same shades of grey in order to fit in.

Yet in most crowds there is a dime in the dozen. There will is usually one girl that represents the lady in red in a sea of black, who is strutting down the street with a bow in her hair, smiling – owning every step. To some, that one bow would seem out of place. But to her it feels perfectly natural because she knows who she is. She has found her style, her voice.

When looking back at the history of fashion, it would seem that almost every fashion icon had one accessory element to her that made her stand out from the crowd. First lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis gave fashion what we know today as the ‘Jackie O’ sunglasses. What would seem like a simple fashion accessory has grown to represent power and ownership and has, since then transcended throughout the fashion eras.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis

In recent times popular show ‘Gossip Girl’ invented fashion icon character Blair Waldorf, who re-invented the headband. Although a small touch, the fashion accessory gave her character presence and the rest of us a reason to wear a headband without feeling like we were five years old again.

It would seem that what makes these icons stand out isn’t simply their money or fame, but their desire or ability to take something simple and make it their own. How many times have we walked into a store and chose something completely diverse to what we had become used to, or to what our friends wore. Why is it that we are often so afraid to think outside the box? Be it a pair of sunglasses, an oversized bag or a statement necklace, the right fashion accessory can often take a look from bland to individual and give a girl her own voice and her own iconic identity.

Fashion has always has one rule – express yourself. It is an art like any other, just like painters express each part of themselves through their painting, we have the ability to each express ourselves through our fashion. As children we loved to play dress-ups, we experimented we anything we could find and made it our own, we had no fear. As adults we too have to find our voice, so the next time you walk into a store, ask yourself, what does you accessory say about you?

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2 Responses to “Womens Fashion Accessories”

Estelle says:

October 26, 2009 at 9:12 pm

This is so true. We should be able to express our emotions and personality through our style, wheather or not it be the current fashion. Love the piece
mandy says:

November 24, 2009 at 5:50 am

Great article. I love expressing my personality and I think you can do that a lot with what you wear.