How to refresh your personal style for spring
From one season to the next, updating your style is the perfect way to welcome change. You don’t need to completely forget your favourite fits and top picks, either. With a few extra details, colours and shapes, you’ll turn heads and feel even more confident.
Below, we’ve shared our top tips to help you elevate your outfits just in time for spring.
Dressing for spring: Our top 5 tips
- Know your style
Finding your specific personal style can be difficult – and so can being true to yourself. Once you’ve got it narrowed down, it’s so much easier to think of new outfits and feel great from the moment you step out the door.
Knowing how you prefer to dress also makes it easier to plan for seasonal changes and occasions. Don’t be tempted to follow fast fashion trends if that’s not your style. Listen to your heart and carry on wearing the clothes that make you feel like the best version of yourself.
- Invest in your clothing
Cheaply made clothing deteriorates much more quickly. While buying designer or premium clothing might cost you more upfront, you’ll get much more for your money over time.
Along with carrying an elegant aura, expensive fabrics are often easier to wash and maintain, keeping their box-fresh look for longer. Better made clothes last longer, make it easier to build a capsule wardrobe, and boost your everyday comfort. If you’re a busy working professional, they could be better suited to the office too.
- Learn how to accessorise
Whether it might be a statement piece or a collection of daintier gems, wearing accessories can help your outfit look complete and carefully put together. With so many styles to choose from, jewellery is the perfect way to enhance your style with a touch of glamour.
By choosing colourful stones, delicate designs and hand-polished metals, you can make a nod to the season too. Pastel blues, light greens and rosy reds welcome nature’s array of new flowers and fauna in full bloom.
- Find out your size
Despite most brands following a uniform approach to sizing, you’ll find surprising differences between specific fits and product types. With some shops following independent size guides, it can be difficult to keep track of your size.
Instead of taking a shot in the dark with size guides, we recommend knowing the measurements of your body before you go shopping. Clothes are designed according to waist, hip, bust and shoulder dimensions, plus the length of your arms and legs. Knowing your exact size will make it easier to find the best fitting garment, every time.
- Add some new pieces
Finally, if your wardrobe needs a little bit of life before summer arrives, don’t hesitate to buy a couple of seasonal pieces. You could choose your favourite high-end brands or promote a circular economy by opting for charity shops and online marketplace apps instead.
If they’re kept in good condition, it doesn’t matter if you only get a little bit of wear out of them. Just remember to wash and store your clothes carefully to preserve their as-new condition – then they’ll be ready to go again next year.
