I stumbled across this question playing around online, and thought I'd share with you here. Between men, our friends, family, coworkers, and all those strangers you cross paths with everyday, there are so many people in our lives we try to impress. Clothes can be a way to brag, express yourself, make yourself appear a certain way to others, there are endless theorie about why we care so much about what we wear.

Here are some ideas:
“Most women dress for their most fashionable friend.”
-Anne Hathaway

“Women dress for men. I do dress for myself because it makes me feel empowered, but I’m definitely looking for [husband] Ruben’s expression, not his approval.”
-Isabel Toledo

“I don’t know for everyone else. For me, it’s for myself. When you feel good about yourself, you feel good about everyone else.”
-French Vogue’s Carine Roitfeld

I dress solely for myself. I can see how people might dress for men, their friends, whatever, but If I'm spending great amounts of money on clothes, taking a good twenty minutes to pick out an outfit in the morning, keeping up with the shows, and making sure an outfit is perfect before I dare step out of the house, its for me. It's also because I expect myself to do this- to keep up with trends, care about how I look. While I may dress to meet my own standards, I've realized you can't dress to someone else's definition of fashionable. The latest from Milan may be a personal favorite of mine, but don't wear the trendy things if you don't like them! Then, you're no longer dressing for yourself, you're dressing for what someone else would think is for you.