what is it about style

this painting was gifted for me by a friend. It is so part of my style.

what is style?

I often wonder about this. Who has it, who doesn't? Do I? If not (which I suspect is the correct answer about me as regards being stylish in the fashion sense), then how do I get it? And does it even matter?

I didn't understand this at all for a long time. The quote:

"fashion fades; style is eternal": Yves St Laurent

I did not understand at all. Did it mean that we buy what's in fashion and make sure that it's something that won't go out of fashion? Do we get the fashion "essentials" which never go out of fashion and thereby make us have style? Or are we to always be fashionably stylish? 

What? I ask you. What?

But now I think I might know the answer. Style is something that we all actually have, and it may or may not have to do with fashion, clothes and such. Phew.

What about: we all have a style of being. How we:

• live our life
• express ourselves on all levels
• our unique way of thinking and feeling

I'm a bit of a minimalist

My own style of expressing myself verbally, adorning moi, and having a home, is somewhat minimalist. I am a quiet wee soul. And yet, fashion-wise, weirdly, over the years I have had people copy my style of dressing completely. Which absolutely unnerves me. 

I once went somewhere where a woman I knew had copied my hair do, clothes, mannerism, speech and body language. "Well, that's it" I thought - "you've killed me and taken my place." I was being silly, but gosh it was unsettling. Especially as she kept blatantly being me to the real me. 

Another time I came home, and my flatmate of the time was mysteriously wearing identical clothes as to what I was usually wearing. Including the same shade of lipstick. Now, that was another spooky moment. 

Of course, style does also relate to how we dress. How we adorn, embellish ourselves. There are often people who are regarded by some others as being "styley" and others are like: what? surely not? about the same person. 

So it seems to be that stylish is in the eyes of the beholder. 

I love the way that someone can express themselves in their own particular style. In their home, work, hobbies, food, clothes, body language, speech. It fascinates me. When I walk into someone's home and I see that they have put their own personal, meaningful touch here and there, I enjoy looking at this, I really do. I think mine must be that I always have some statues of the Hindu Goddesses and Gods, and a couple of paintings that I've been gifted. And lots of books. My tv is seldom turned on, and I love antique furniture. A bit quirky, but also sparse. 

these two small Ganeshas go everywhere that I live. And yes, I know, sacrilege to have my special feathers tucked into his arm.

What is your own style? Of anything.