Where can style go from here? It is my opinion that style has reached a point where it is now a conglomeration of all the styles that came before it. In any person's outfit you might see styles from 30 different decades. That's an exaggeration. (Though it's probably been done by now).

More than ever, style is at the hands of the individual. And by this I mean that rather than using our clothing choices to be recognized as a certain type, we are all marking our own individuality by the different combinations we make every day. We are part green and part wool, part long hair and part sandals. We have a bandanna and an earring. We are pirates!

Does this mean individuality has won the day, has it monopolized the market? Of course not. Individuality has become a brand itself. Buying local and buying green and buying goodwill, all of those have become a brand, they have become a way to mark your identity. Is this a bad thing? Is branding bad? Of course not! Branding is only a bad thing when we let it control more than it should. When we cherish a brand as if it were a god, when the only facet of our existence is the consumer in us.

In conclusion to this post that had no direction from the start: buy what you wanna buy! Look the way you wanna look! Dress the same! Dress different! At no other point in history have you had so many options to make what you buy as important as you want or as unimportant! 

As for me? I'm waiting till the day when we all run around naked (though with comfortable shoes and a right-proper winter coat)