CONSIDER: What You Want Your Clothes to Say About You.
When you walk in a room – any room (it could be a work conference, a networking event, a party, casual lunch with friends, a volunteer meeting, even a family gathering where everyone knows you well… ) — how do you want to be perceived? What do you want the people who know you and those who don’t know you to think about you and who you are as a person?
In Module 4, we first discussed the idea that what we wear signals something, and something significant, to the world around us and also to ourselves. Our clothes are messengers, telling us who we are (at least in part) and telling the world who we believe ourselves to be, and who we really are.
In The Language of Clothes, author Alison Lurie claims that clothes talk. She says that they make up a vocabulary and this vocabulary speaks as loudly as the spoken word.
Whether we want it to or not, whether we are influencing the message or not, communication is happening – and our clothing is forming a large part of the message.
So it’s interesting to consider the feedback your clothing is sending – to yourself, and to others. If we assume your clothing is speaking, the question becomes: what’s it saying?
Open page 70 of your Module 11 PDF and continue with the explorations.
Some of the upcoming Explorations may be quite personal and significant for you to consider and explore. To ensure you have a positive experience, here are some strategies to keep the journey stimulating and safe when participating in the following Explorations.
