Out With the Old: 18 Real-Girl Fashion Rules to Follow This Year

Here in the fashion world, it feels like everyone is always telling us what to do: wear this, ditch that, and please, never, ever do this. But while we do enjoy a good trend and the designer red carpet gown, we’re real girls like the rest of you. If a shoe hurts, we don’t wear it. If we want to spend the day in our sweatpants, we do. And if we don’t have the money to splurge on that It designer bag, well, the similar, cheaper version will do.

So now that 2015 has begun, we thought we’d revisit those old, don’t-you-dare-type rules and come up with our own, better versions. They’re way easier to follow, but if you break ’em . . . nothing will happen.