As we go into Halloween season, remember you can use Halloween as a style portal to make changes that might otherwise be met with resistance or blowback.
From Style Portals and why I cover Halloween costumes among finding your authentic day to day style:
“Halloween costumes can act as a little bit of a design challenge, or a journal prompt, or a thought exercise: without any of the standard lifestyle pressures, what would you be or wear? And what version of that would you be? What qualities would you embody?
Halloween can act like a little bit of a personal style portal. (Other personal style portals include: travel, grad school, sabbaticals, new ventures, or relocations.) It’s an opportunity to try something new without the internal or external judgements or expectations.
It’s perfectly acceptable to dress differently on vacation or even a business trip. If some of those changes stick after the trip is over, so be it. Similarly, for Halloween it’s perfectly acceptable to wear something you normally wouldn’t. And if some of those elements or qualities meander their way into your day-to-day life, so be it.”
If you’d like to keep reading here’s the full blog post.
Remember to utilize personal style portals when present themselves. Here’s to a magical season.