Dressed in Confidence
Through maintaining an image from a young age to developing her own personal style, Ava Rotman has become the best version of herself, thanks to self-expression.
by Lilian Wible, Avon High School
Style has always been a prominent thing. It’s something you can always count on changing. People change and so will their look. Upcoming senior, Ava Rotman, sees personal style as the most important form of self-expression.
In elementary school, Rotman began to felt the pressure because her mother taught at her school. They felt like everything they did could either affect her mom negatively or positively, which could make or break her mom’s or the school’s reputation. This led her to not express herself with her hair or clothes as much as she wanted to.
“I had to keep an image for her image.”
Once she had moved onto middle school and high school, she started to wear more clothes that she felt better represented her and hasn’t looked back. “I feel like when there’s so many options to change your hair, and change your makeup style, it’s important to use those resources,” says Rotman. They now find confidence in clothing like corset tops. Rotman has used corset tops to shake her insecurity surrounding fitted tops.
“I think that starting to wear more things like corset tops, where you can clearly tell I’m more flat chested and not get insecure, has really allowed me to feel more feminine.”
This has also helped Rotman stop caring about what others think of her. She finds this side of herself in Kat Stratford, Julia Stiles’ character in 10 Things I Hate About You. “She’s so unapologetically herself,” says Rotman. They admire Kat’s carelessness towards people’s opinions of her and has implemented it into her own life.
With the help of corset tops, graduating elementary school, and Stratford, Ava Rotman has truly found themselves and become “unapologetically her”.