Leilani Velazquez, a student here at MacDonald High School, has offered up her time in order for us to get an insight of how her personal beliefs have an effect on her day-to-day outfits.
A person’s style is one of the first things noticed, and therefore judged, by others. This is a big reason why so many people have gotten into fashion or have started cultivating their own styles, especially due to the rising popularity and usage of social media over the past years
There are very obvious things that could contribute to what’s in someone’s closet, such as what is aesthetically pleasing to them, their outward presenting gender or how much money they have available to buy clothes. But as you go further into the roots of what changes or inspires outfits, you can find reasons such as where a person lives or what their political beliefs may be. Of course, the priorities of each of these change varying from person to person and what’s most important to them, and they can change over time as the person evolves.
For Velasquez, all of these things, even if in a small way, affect the ways in which she chooses to dress herself every morning. As she had said, her clothing represents who she is as a person. “[My style] definitely plays into my gender identity too” she said, along with the context of how that identity has grown and shaped her life, therefore also growing how her style is presented. She said “people in the Bay Area dress more… out there,” which, to me, seemingly refers to the wider acceptance of differences among people.
But no matter how you dress or why you choose to dress like that, it can be nice to take a deeper look into it. It could help to change you as a person, depending on the type of output you want to give into the world. Everyone has their own reasons and their own preferences, and those should be considered before jumping to conclusions of judgment on them.
