If you are female, I’d be shocked that you managed to be raised in western culture without having such advice shoved down your throat.
It’s extremely unlikely a stranger will offer advice, and if you’re introverted / not that social, co-workers are unlikely to comment on anything that isn’t a big violation of norms (or if you work in a male-dominated field like programming...) That leaves friends, and if you have friends who know fashion, you’d probably already have thought to ask them :)
The other issue I’ve run in to is that I absolutely loathe most mainstream fashions, so most people’s advice will lead me down dead ends. It’s entirely possible to be fashionable without following mainstream trends, but it’s definitely harder to get a start on it.
(sadly I solved all of these problems by having a fairly good fashion sense naturally, so I don’t have any advice ^^;)
It’s extremely unlikely a stranger will offer advice, and if you’re introverted / not that social, co-workers are unlikely to comment on anything that isn’t a big violation of norms (or if you work in a male-dominated field like programming...) That leaves friends, and if you have friends who know fashion, you’d probably already have thought to ask them :)
The other issue I’ve run in to is that I absolutely loathe most mainstream fashions, so most people’s advice will lead me down dead ends. It’s entirely possible to be fashionable without following mainstream trends, but it’s definitely harder to get a start on it.
(sadly I solved all of these problems by having a fairly good fashion sense naturally, so I don’t have any advice ^^;)