Hello ladies, how are you? Hope you found some of my tips about elegant fashion style useful. Today I would like to explore what is elegance and how you can develop it… The definition of elegant is someone or something luxurious in a restrained manner or something that is very well-thought through yet simple. Elegance is something undeniably alluring; enchanting; memorising even about someone with elegance.
It’s seemingly an innate characteristic – a quality that just exudes from some people, like their natural beauty. Yet, while elegance can quite easily be classed as ‘je ne sais quoi’ or something special you just cannot place, it can also be pin pointed to many subtle details. A person’s poise; their style; their words; their manners. It’s a series of things culminating to become this intangible quality – elegance.
There are no hard and fast rules on how to evoke the true essence of elegance.
It’s not about breton striped shirts, ballet flats and classic trench coats. Chignons, nude lipstick and pearls don’t come into play. Elegance is an essence, a feeling, a way of life. Chanel once said, ‘elegance is refusal’ and who are we to disagree with arguably the most elegant women of all time? Elegance is refusing to wear a dress that you feel less than spectacular in, it’s calmly taking off those pants because they’re a little bit too tight and it’s passing on this season’s body-con mini-dress trend because it just doesn’t flatter your figure.
When Christian Dior was asked ‘what is key to good dressing?’, he said, ‘There is no key! If there were it would be too easy, rich women could buy the key and all their fashion worries would be over! But simplicity, grooming and good taste – the three fundamentals of fashion – cannot be bought. But they can be learnt, by rich and poor alike.’
You needn’t go out and spend a tonne of money. An elegant woman is more materially-restrained than we realize.
There is always something very cohesive, rounded, soft, subtle, ethereal look about a woman who is elegant. It looks effortless and perfectly gentle.
To dress elegant is to make a sense that makes an individual feel bursting with delight for oneself and others. It is certainly not a matter of showing off one’s finery; many of us don’t even have fine clothes. Dressing with elegance is a simple matter of showing respect through subtlety and simplicity.
A truly stylish woman may sift through the trends but she is certain that style is more important than fashion. Being elegant is not about brands but rather about items that flatter the figure. It is about imagination that represents understated glamour, of being selective, exquisite, and delicately tasteful.
In this modern times, everybody can look elegant in inexpensive clothes… even the rich buy them too. As Coco Chanel once said, “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
