Welcome to the fifth and final article in Step 1 of your personal Style Discovery journey, 10 questions that will help you find your style. This article acts as a reflection and synthesis piece, helping you pull together everything you’ve learned so far, and define your style in your own words.
The first few articles in Step 1:
- How to Find Your Personal Style
- Understanding Your Style Archetype
- Which Style Personality Fits You Best
- How to Create a Style Moodboard
Are designed to give you frameworks, visuals, and vocabulary to start identifying your aesthetic.
It’s now time to turn inward. Asking yourself these 10 questions to find your style transforms all the earlier insights into something personal and actionable, wrapping up Step 1 with clarity and self awareness, before moving on to Step 2: Editing your wardrobe.
Each of these 10 questions is meant to help you translate what you’ve learned about your style archetype, style personality, and style moodboard into a clear sense of identity.
As you go through each question, jot down your answers in a notebook, on your computer, or in an app so you can refer back to them. Don’t overthink it, short, honest reflections are best.
10 Questions to Ask Yourself to Find Your Style
- Does what you save as style inspiration resonate with how you want to portray yourself?
• Look at your saved posts on social media or on Pinterest. Do they represent the version of yourself you want to step into right now, or a version you’ve outgrown?
✨ Tip: Write down three words that describe how you want your style to make you feel, are these words reflected in the images you’ve saved? - Is what you save as style inspiration practical for your lifestyle?
• You might love structured blazers or heels, but if your daily life is more casual, that might not align.
✨ Tip: Make note of what you love visually but rarely wear, this will help you balance inspiration with reality. - What do the patterns in what you wear the most say about you and does this align?
• Your daily outfits often reveal your truest preferences. Look for recurring colours, styles, or fabrics.
✨ Tip: Take photos of your favourite outfits and see what connects them, these themes are what you should look for in the clothes you buy. - What styles no longer feel like you?
• Our style naturally evolves with each season of life.
✨ Tip: Think about what feels off lately, it often points to what you’ve outgrown. - What does your style archetype say about you?
• Each archetype represents a mood or energy.
✨ Tip: Revisit your archetype post and note what resonates most. - Does your style archetype match what you have in your wardrobe, or do you need to audit?
• This is where self awareness becomes action.
✨ Tip: Circle the pieces that align, they’ll guide your next wardrobe edit. - What does your style personality say about you and does it feel in alignment with your true self?
• Your personality adds emotion and depth to your archetype.
✨ Tip: Describe how you want your clothes to make you feel (confident, relaxed, grounded, creative). - Does what you currently wear fit your style personality, does it make you feel how you want to feel?
• If not, that’s your sign that something’s out of alignment, maybe colour, fit, or vibe.
✨ Tip: Keep a small list of outfit moments that felt really you, what made them work? - What emotions and/or feelings does your style moodboard evoke for you?
• The visuals you chose reflect your desired energy.
✨ Tip: Write down three feelings your board gives you, they’ll guide your shopping and outfit decisions later. - What three words come to mind when looking at your style moodboard?
• These words become your style compass. Use them to guide what you buy, keep, and wear.
✨ Tip: Add them to your Notes app, if something doesn’t match these words, it probably doesn’t belong.
Be honest and clear when answering these questions to find your style, by the time you’ve worked through them you’ll start seeing patterns and will uncover emotions and feelings that lie within why you like certain styles of clothing.
You will also be able to see the disconnects between what’s in your wardrobe and what inspires you, this is important because this disconnect is actually awareness of what is not meant for you. Bringing you closer to your true personal style.
That’s why when you find your style it’s so powerful.
Style is about how you want to feel everyday when you get dressed. Once you can define those feelings and see them reflected in your wardrobe, you’ve officially uncovered your personal style.
You’ve now completed the first step of your Personal Style Discovery journey, understanding your style. By defining what you love and why, you’ve built a clear foundation for everything that comes next.
As you move into Step 2: Editing Your Wardrobe, you’ll start to bring this clarity to life. You’ll refine what you own, keep what aligns, and let go of what no longer represents you. Every edit will move you closer to a wardrobe that feels intentional, effortless, and completely your own.
