Your Style Words Need a Reality Check

🧪 Entry #12: Connecting your style words to real-world styling elements by building your Style Vocabulary.

By now, you’ve probably named your three core Style Words.

Maybe you’re working with something like classic · romantic · polished or perhaps playful · minimal · relaxed.

But here’s the thing: those three words? They might still feel disconnected with reality.

This week, we’re going deeper, on a mission to connect your style words with real, tangible style elements. We’re going to translate your style words into your personal Style Vocabulary.

• color type

• body type

• core style

• the wardrobe framework

• wardrobe editing

• fit + measurements

• silhouette + proportion

• color story

• texture

• multidimensional style

• conflict + balance

• full outfits

Intro to Style Vocabulary

Think of your three style words as the title of a recipe. It tells you what you’re making, but not how to make it. Your Style Vocabulary is the ingredient list. Without it, you’re cooking blind.

The idea is to associate colors, materials, shapes, styling techniques, and other descriptors with your three style words to communicate your interpretation of each style word.

Check out this video where I dive a bit deeper on the topic of building your style vocabulary.

Here’s a simple example from a recent capsule client whose three style words are sophisticated · creative · feminine.

• Sophisticated is classic, deep, minimal, tailored, subtle, composed, tucked.

• Creative is playful, sculptural, unexpected, layered, geometric, colorful jewelry.

• Feminine is soft, elegant, curved, sensual, silky, lightweight, delicate, chic.

Style Vocabulary example from a recent capsule example.

How sophisticated, creative, and feminine might be interpreted for the Soft Gamine body type and True Winter color type.

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• A 3-step exercise to refine your Style Words and build a detailed Style Vocabulary

• Free access to the Style File Notion template (or get it here for $17)

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