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Fashion Therapy
Completely different from retail therapy, fashion therapy involves dressing to express your personality and most authentic self. Find out how fashion therapy helped my friend Amy and how it can help you, too!
Fashion and Depression
Why do people wear what they do when depressed? How can we use fashion to decrease our depressive symptoms?
Retail Therapy
Retail therapy generally has more to do with the reason behind shopping rather than the actual object being purchased.
Fitspiration Fashion
The fitspiration movement continues to grow within the fashion industry, promoting a healthy lifestyle that can take you through your everyday activities and bring you to your workout classes at the gym.
Fashion of Dating
Fashion gives individuality in the world of dating, and helps people to seek partners who’s overall style might attract them.
Little Black Dress
No matter what trends are in or decade it may be, the color black is always the chicest to the world of fashion and never goes out of style. So, why is this the case?
Color Psychology
As mentioned in my blog about the fashion influence on mood, the color of your outfit can influence the moods and emotions you may feel. So how does this work and what do different colors symbolize?
Fashion and Poor Health I
In this blog series, split into two, I plan to discuss the issue of how fashion has and continues to cause body dissatisfaction and eating disorders, and in the second blog, “Women’s Brain Health at Risk,” I plan to discuss the resulting long-term health consequences for women.
The Psychology Behind Dressing for Work
Do you ever wonder how many times you can wear the same outfit to work without people wondering if you are wearing the same thing too often?
The Psychology of Fashion
I started wondering how fashion influences mood, emotions, and wellbeing, why people spend so much on luxury designer brands, how fashion is related to confidence, self-esteem, self-identity, depression, and anxiety, what retail therapy entails, and so much more.
My aunt gave me her genuine blue fox fur coat as a gift when I turned 21. I just got it cleaned and revamped to keep it safe and lasting. It’s been on my mind lately, thinking about whether it’s acceptable to wear genuine fur today or if faux fur is a better option.