I’ve had a lot of fashion debates with my friends and we’ve come to this one conclusion: ‘fashion’ and ‘style’ are two very different terms!

I've said this before, I am not so much a ‘looks’ person but more of a style person. Even if you’re not drop-dead gorgeous but you dress well, then you are good looking in my books. I have seen very beautiful individuals who cannot dress to save their own lives. I’ve also seen people who claim to be fashionable but who are in reality, just a walking fashion suicide.

These people are my fashion pet-peeves. Don’t believe everything you read in the magazines or fashion sites. What’s considered fashionable in the runways may not necessarily translate well in real life. Unlike those models, you may not be able to pull off the same look walking down the regular-joe streets. Follow fashion blindly and it will result into you becoming this common little thing known as a Fashion Victim.

And then there’s style. Now if you take those fashion from the runways and make it into your own style, then THAT’s what I call fashionable. To pull off a look with style and grace, you need that certain eye for details, know what’s in and what’s out and at the same time maintain practicality and comfort. No, you do not necessarily need to suffer for fashion. Those models wear a size ZERO on the runways but if you’re a size 10 then for the goodness of mankind, find something similar in your size and wear them with pride (AND comfort). Looking like an over-stuffed turkey in the latest Gucci frock is big No-No. Not only will you look ridiculously tarty, you've also succeeded in making an expensive wear look cheap. In which case I’d rather you wear an average-price dress from Topshop in your size and look decent.

Which brings me to my next point, expensive do not always means good looking. I HATE it when people boast about their latest buy from the most expensive brand but when they put it on, they put the brand AND themselves to shame. I know a lot of other people who would pull off the same look way better than they do. They make expensive clothes look cheap and trashy. I can spend the same amount of money (they spent on that 1 item) and buy 10 other cheap dresses and make them look expensive.

Really, it’s not about how much you spend on the latest fashion, it’s about how you wear and carry yourselves in them.

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