Discovering Personal Style

What is your personal style? This is a question I spend a bit of time thinking about actually. I favor the British sweater-shirt-pant combo which can be switched up to the sweater-shirt-skirt or sweater-dress combos. But I realized recently that this exact combo is favored by my 85 year old grandmother and a very stylish 65 year old aunt. This made me realize that my day to day uniform is aging me. Or is it the way I am putting it together that is aging me. It is one thing to like the combo as I can make it funky but I don't. My closet consists of stuff that I don't even think my grandmother would find stylish because they are too plain, not enough sparkles and too boring.

The thing is I love clothing. Not high end fashions, but everyday clothing. I love looking at magazines, I love looking online. I am addicted to Pintrest. I love browsing stores and yet I rarely try anything new. In fact I have only purchased 2 articles of clothing this year. A new pair of workout pants and a pair of skinny grey jeans. Both purchased this week. 

I am putting together a capsule wardrobe out of what I have for the spring. Specifically April through June. I haven't decided how many items I am going to go down to because I am not certain what to weed out. Recently I was given a bunch of clothing from my sister. They were all in very good condition and quality and I am trying to put everything together with stuff I already own. During this process I realized, even the stuff I already own doesn't go together that well. It is all over the place in color and in style. It follows my uniform, however it is all from when I worked in an office everyday. Not out of a home. The clothes don't fit who I am now, at this point in my life. I haven't purchased new clothing for spring and summer in a number of years so this explains it. However I really want to make the capsule wardrobe work for me. I want to have the freedom from my clothing that people doing Project 333 rave about. I want to know everything I own looks good on me, fits my personality and flows well together. I don't want to wear my fall back color (black) everyday. I want to feel comfortable at work sitting all the time in air conditioning. I want to feel put together. 

Without the help of a personal shopper and mounds of money and a complete overhaul of everything I own, how am I going to get out of my rut?