Fashion To Me

Alright so check it! I've been thinking about it and I feel like I want to continue this blogging thing. Before I was doing it for class and now I want to do it to share my views and opinions about a passion of mine. If you've ever read any of my other blogs one my previous website, (https://jdchery.wixsite.com/tmelss)they were mainly focused and centered around fashion so you can only imagine where this blog will go. I have a passion for fashion. Some may say its an obsession more than a passion, but it is all the same to me. It’s something I love and is what I spend my free time researching other than binge watching Netflix. Here's a little back story for you.

I got into clothes in the 8th grade. Now I say got into clothes because I didn't really know how to dress then, I just knew that I started gravitating towards a few pieces. Back then I used to skateboard with a homie named Taylor. We were nowhere good at skating but we were deep into the culture. Since we were skaters, my inspirations were Torey Pudwill, Ryan Sheckler, and Stefan Janoski. Hearing those names you’d understand that I wore hoodies, skates tee's, baggy pants or cargos, vans, and sb's. My parents loved that for me because my shoes only cost at most $65 and they could always get great deals or discounts. I was into brands like Obey, The Hundreds, and of course loved OFWGKTA (Odd Future). Zumiez always had buy 1 get 1 or buy 2 get 1 free so I didn't spend too much. My skate homie moved away and no one else really skated like me so I naturally grew out of it and got into other stuff.

I stayed in the skater boy stage till about 10th grade and that was when I started getting into online shopping, listening to different music, and meeting new people. I started shopping at places like forever 21 and H&M because it was popular at the time. 10th grade for me was in kind of a gap year. I was searching for my style but didn't know much so I was looking like a hot mess. That upcoming summer I got my first job. I worked at summer camp with some friends from school and to say the least, we got payed WELL. This is the summer my sneaker collection grew and it’s the summer that I visited NY and decided to buy my most expensive sneaker. I went ahead and dropped $400 at Flight Club on Infrared 6's. I went in knowing what I wanted, but I was taken a back when I entered the store and ended up staying for over 2 hours just staring at shoes. That same week I also bought my first Bape shirt and Supreme shirt. It seemed like I was getting into the more hype beast era in my life and that lasted about 2 years as well. To fast forward this story, let's move to college.

I'm originally a kid from Miami Gardens, Florida who went to a small Christian school in North Miami, but I moved and left for college in Michigan. I've never really dressed for the cold, but if you know anything about Floridians, we will wear hoodies in 95 degree weather. We may look crazy but I figured that since I did that, I would be fine in the cold. My dad is originally from Haiti, but he moved to New York for college, so he gave me all the coats he wore in NY. Those coats held me over for a while, but I quickly got into my own version of fall wear. That semester I was buying puffer jackets, coats, and boots to ensure that I still looked decent and stayed warm. I began finding my own style looking to new inspiration from Instagram and Pinterest. As freshman year went by, the compliments began to roll in, but then came sophomore year. I completely stopped dressing, because I was going through a fashion crisis. It wasn't cute and I let myself wear sweats every day. A friend of mine even asked if I was okay, because it was so unusual for me. Honestly, I realize that I use fashion to express myself and that is just how I was feeling. In a way I lost my style because I was going through a lot that year, but I was determined to change that in my junior year so I did. I fell back in love with fashion and started looking at it as my own version of art.

Now it might sound like Im out here having a fashion show everyday and dressing for others, but I'm not. I’ve realized that when I dress nicely or even decently I am 10x more confident than I would normally be. Fashion to me is self-expression which really equals to your own art. When you think of a painter who creates, you think of it as their expression on the piece that they are painting. I think of fashion as the same thing. It's my own outlet to express my creativity. I am now in my senior year of college and my style is still changing and only getting better. I am looking to test my own limits and do things that are out of the box for me. Im learning that I am the only thing holding me back and I want to change that. So you guys reading this, hold me to it and help me continue moving forward. Let’s create a community!