Love fashion and love to see the new creation and styles that the designers create day by day. I live in Finlad and in the very beginning it was a little bit difficult to identify myself in clothing. In Mozambique (my home country) some years ago we had a huge influence from Brasil, I am talking about the clothes from Brasil. Well, Mozambique is a tropical country as well and the Brasilian clothes suit really well there.
When I moved to Finland I had a lot of mini clothes and short blouses that I couldn't even take all with me. Well, something that a friend of mine told me was that I shoud take all the clothes I want because indoors I wont feel cold as the houses, shopping malls etc are well heated in Finland. I couldnt imagine how well heated they are, still amazed about it till today. I am at the moment in an internship in Spain and the indoors here ooh God, coooold !!!
It was good that I took some of my clothes with me to Finland because I could wear them with tights.Wow, I started to wear tights and I like it because I could choose the color I wanted or at least those that suit to me but still it was bit difficult to identify my new style.
In the course of time I started to identify what I like to wear and to create my own ID mixing my old clothes with the new ones. I love my new identification, still buying a lot when I go to my home country and also in South Africa from where the Mozambicans use to buy a lot. Its easier to get there (South Africa is one of the countries boarding Mozambique).
The funniest thing for me is that when I am in Mozambique some people love my clothes (from Finland) and here in Finland they like the clothes from there and I always try to mix the two styles. What really identifies me is always have something different that I use to say in Portuguese 'é a minha cara' = is my swag! I think everybody has this identification style that makes us different as nodoby can really look alike the other as we are all different even we dress the same clothes we wont never look like the same person.
If you still don't have your own style look for it, I think is a way of knowing yourself, its like a perfum, the perfumes you like they tell a lot about you! People can know a little bit about you by the perfum you like.
If John Bull turns around to look at you, you are not well dressed; but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable."
~ Beau Brummell
