Recently I listened to Tina Roth Eisenberg's Do lecture on "Trust Breeds Magic." It was an inspiring talk for any creative or entrepreneur and provoked me to do some thinking. In typical fashion my busy and wandering mind took me beyond the obvious of career objectives. It took me to my habits. You see I trust most of what I do on a day-to-day basis: my beauty & hygiene routine, the food I pick out for my meals and most importantly what I wear. I trust my sense of style. That's not to say that I never step out to places like Target in my house leggings, because I do. However, I trust that 77% of the other customers walking through there are in theirs too, or worse off actual pajama pants. Moreover, I spend a very small fraction of my life out in said house leggings and other homewear. In fact they are only to be utilized off-premise when doing "home" related things. The remaining time I spend outside of my house I am in formalized yoga and athletic wear for the gym, business casual for the workplace, and classic eccentric wear for where ever my social calendar takes me. Now those are broad terms, and I am not so arrogant to assume that certain brands must pertain to any one category. I am only arrogrant enough in this realm to say that a diversified portfolio of trusted colors, patterns and tailoring more often than not yield...well, magic. Anna Wintour astutely observed in the documentary The September Issue that most people fear fashion. Imagine if this type of fear did not exist in the world? A-lines would be honored, florals would blossom and people would feel and thus be pretty in pink. It sounds lovely, does it not? It's all so easy too if we just trust. Love can happen at first sight, and it can happen when you least expect it, in the simplest of settings at Banana Republic upon spotting a hot pink peplum skirt on sale. When it hits you, it will be magical.
{Image via This Is Glamorous}
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