41 Questions to Understand Your Personal Style
By Team Whering published 21/12/2024
Searching for your personal style? Deep dive into your wardrobe and analyse your shopping and styling habits with these questions.
Let’s go:
Your shopping habits
⭐ How many items of clothing did you buy this year?
⭐ Have you bought more or less than the year before?
⭐ Were a lot of your purchases influenced by TikTok or social media?
⭐ Were you consciously trying to buy less? If so, how is this changing how you view clothes?
⭐ Have any recent purchases surprised you? Why?
⭐ What is the best thing you bought this year?
⭐ Why was it such a good purchase?
⭐ What was the average price range of items you bought?
⭐ Did you prioritise quality or quantity?
⭐ Will you be spending more or less money than last year on clothing?
⭐ Do you regret any purchases?
⭐ Why? What have you learned from the items you regret buying?
⭐ What kind of brands did you buy from? E.g independent or fast fashion?
⭐ Do you know where most of your clothes are made?
⭐ Is it important to you to support small businesses/designers? Does your wardrobe reflect this?
⭐ Are you guilty of making impulse purchases?
⭐ What usually leads you to impulse buy?
⭐ How do your impulse purchases usually pan out? Do you wear them as much as your other purchases?
What you wore
⭐ What is most worn item?
⭐ What do you like about it?
⭐ What is your least worn item?
⭐ What don't you like about it?
⭐ Do you think you could style your least worn item better so you’d get more wear out of it? If so, how?
⭐ Are there any items you don't get the chance to wear a lot, but you wish you did?
⭐ What stops you?
⭐ What/who is your style inspiration?
⭐ How do they influence your outfits? Do you think you’ll continue to look to them/it for styling inspiration?
⭐ Where does most of your inspiration come from? Online or in person?
⭐ Do you plan your outfits or see how you felt on the day?
⭐ If you do plan outfits, do you feel more confident in these than those you don't plan?
⭐ Will you be planning more or less outfits next year, or the same?
⭐ If you’re changing the amount of outfit you plan, what caused you to want to do this?
Your clothes in context
⭐ How does your style compare to those around you?
⭐ Do you think your style would be widely considered trendy?
⭐ Does being perceived as stylish matter to you?
⭐ Do you feel pressure to change your style to fit in?
⭐ Do you prioritise buying from brands/designers that are trending?
⭐ If you prioritise trending brands, how would you feel if you didn’t?
⭐ Did any external factors impact how you dress? E.g cost of living crisis or a foot injury causing you to wear certain shoes, etc.
⭐ Do these external factors change your perception of fashion?
⭐ How much influence do trends have on your wardrobe?
Those are all the questions we're asking ourselves. We'd love to hear your answers, get in touch with us @Whering__ on Twitter and Instagram.
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