Do you know what an outfit is?
If we look at it in the dictionary, the word outfit is defined as "the set of clothes and accessories worn by a person".
We are also told that the word outfit in English is linked to the concept of "equipment", "trousseau" and "equipment".
Our outfits are our equipment for each new day.
Our outfits are the equipment that allows us to go around the world.
Our outfits are our equipment, they are the frame of every movement and every action we take.
Before leaving home we can not help but equip ourselves with this equipment, we can not help but take our equipment, we can not help but consider our equipment.
Every morning, we take off our night gear and wear our day gear. And we do it almost without thinking about it, automatically and ritually, we do it even if we do not know the word outfit, we do it even if the concept of fashion seems to us something distant from us.
Our equipment will accompany us throughout the day.
Our equipment will take the children with us to school, will give us comfort when we cross the threshold of the unpleasant colleague to whom we will have to ask a favor, will make us feel sexy at dinner with our partner, will accompany us in the evenings on the sofa in front of the TV.
Our equipment will allow us to feel comfortable in our day, or will make us suffer because it is not suitable for our mission. We will be clutched by shoes that are too tight, we will feel embarrassed by the jerseys that will highlight our curves, we will feel unhappy with the clothes that do not resemble us and in which we will not recognize ourselves.
Our equipment will be composed of several elements that we will wear, following a precise sequence: first the underwear, then the pants, after the shirt, over the jacket and finally the accessories: necklaces, earrings, ties, etc.. And, at the end of the day, the shoes.
Each element will have its own weight. Each element will be the result of two choices.
We make the first choice when we decide to buy that skirt, that shirt, that hat. We observe them, we try them on, we invest time and money to take home with us what will become a part of our equipment. The choice can be conditioned by many factors: that garment we need because without its presence we feel that our trousseau is unguarded, we like that garment and makes us feel beautiful, that garment helps us to hide in its wide forms or in its dull colors etc..
The second choice is when we actually decide to take from the toolbox, namely our closet, just that piece. We decide that these are the right brushes to give the last touch to the painting we have composed and that we observe in the mirror. Or, instead, we decide not to use any of the tools that we have in stock because we think we are not able to do so.
Our equipment, our outfit will be a sum of choices every day, so it will represent our ability and our possibility to make choices.
How many times have you heard of a perfect outfit?
Perfect as the equipment that makes us feel good, that makes us feel well dressed.
But what does it really mean to be well dressed? Let's examine the points I've described above.
The perfect outfit is the one that accompanies us in every day and makes us feel comfortable.
Considering that our equipment is always with us, it moves with our body, it is the skin above our skin, it follows our actions, it runs with us when we are about to miss the bus, it walks with us towards our happiness, why shouldn't it make us feel comfortable?
There is a kind of taboo that prevents you from combining comfort and style and I am very sorry about that.