How to ‘Self-Fashion’ Like a Minimalist
3 mediums for self-expression that don’t involve buying more stuff.
As a young kid, I sported a bowl cut and spent much of my time in a gym playing basketball. My peers had their hair in bows and barrettes and I was sent to school in mostly t-shirts and sneakers. Before long, I wanted what they had. I wanted so bad to be cute.
Instead, my style said “gym rat.”
One summer I went to the mall with my grandma and cried and cried until she bought me a purple shirt with pom-poms on the front. It said “CHEER!” and was the exact opposite of everything I knew and did.
I was never signed up for cheerleading, but still I was appeased.
Identity and Self-Fashioning
What I was experiencing then was a newly developed sense of identity. No longer was I content to be dressed in gym clothes because I had an opinion about how I wanted to be seen in the world (of my 2nd grade classroom). My mall outburst was one of my first actions in shaping that.
I was self-fashioning.
