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How To Effortlessly Look Stylish Every Day

Style doesn’t have to be expensive or take a lot of time

Sam Holstein
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9 min readJan 3, 2020

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One of the unfortunate realities of the world we live in is that even though we know we shouldn’t, we judge other people based on their appearance. Here and there you find a rare soul who has learned to look past appearance, but for the most part, people are going to judge you based on what you look like whether or not they should.

Most of the time, this doesn’t matter. But sometimes it does — like when you’re interviewing for your dream job, when you’re going on first dates, and when you’re stopped by police officers for speeding. The impression you make in situations like these can have a real, measurable outcome in the quality of your life.

For a long time, I knew nothing about style. I wore clothes that didn’t fit, that were too small or too large, that were ratty, mismatched, and generally just not something in which I should leave the house.

Obviously, the clothes I wore on the outside didn’t determine who I was on the inside — but they sure as heck determined what people thought. Once I figured out how to dress myself in clothes that fit and matched well, my life changed in surprising ways. I started being offered jobs at trendy companies downtown, professors wanted me in their private seminars…

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