Picking My Wardrobe

By Hannah Karki

K. Garcia Productions

Hi everyone! I know you missed me. If you haven’t read one of my blogs, let me introduce myself. My name is Hannah Karki, and I am your Teen Petite USA 2024, and former Teen New England Petite 2024. Today, I'm going to talk with you about my choices in clothing for pageants, including an interview, evening gown, and swimsuit. 

A lot of the things I pick have to do with the color, style, and how age appropriate the style of the clothing is. One of my main focuses as a national title holder is to look at the age of the group that I am representing. Since I represent 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds, I try to mix up my outfits with cuter teen styles and also a little more flirtatious look for older teens. I tend to go for styles that are off the shoulder or have small cutouts in them to represent my age since I am on the older side of teen. Each of my outfits for the New England pageant and the national pageant were picked on the basis of making sure I looked my age, but the color and the style represented who I am as a person and what I would bring to the national office if I were to win. 

Because I am a brown skin girl, I tend to pick brighter colors that work well with my skin. Let's look into a few of my outfits from the national pageant! 

First, I picked my outfit for the interview because I loved the color of it. I thought it was super eye-catching and I love the style of bandage dresses for teens. I feel like it is super easy to wear, it's comfortable, and the style of the bandage dress can really match with any simple heel which I really liked. I also like the ruffle on the side with the one shoulder. If you know me super well, I am super picky about what I wear.This dress was an immediate yes for me, and I think this is the best I ever felt in an interview. Wearing something you love makes an impact on the way you show your personality and connect with the judges, because you already feel confident and some of the nerves that you feel are washed away because you are confident and how you look. 

The second outfit I picked is my swimsuit! Everyone really loved this one, so I’d thought I would share the reasons why I picked it! One, I loved the color and how bright it is. I feel like with the tan I was in the summer, it perfectly matched the vibe I was going for. I also loved how the color matched my personality super well, sunshiny and yellow! I loved the flowers on the top and the bottom, and I liked how it was a more teen swimsuit. I feel like when we are told to walk, we immediately think we have to look super old or mature. But as a teen, we are looking for a more teen style, not a thong. We want style, but we also want to represent the age group we are supposed to represent. Overall, I loved this swimsuit and I can’t wait to find something like it for internationals. 

And finally, the long awaited gown. Now, I LOVED this gown, but I originally got a lot of push back about my gown. I think people thought it would not give the couture look, but I think it turned out just the way I wanted it to. As I said before, I am very picky with what I wear, so when people tried to change my mind, I did not budge on this dress. I knew if I was going to win, it was going to be because I felt beautiful in what I was wearing. This dress was made by Yubin Couture, and I loved the end result. I had never done purple before, so this was definitely new territory for me. I loved the v-neck, and the beading around the v-neck. My favorite part was definitely the see-through sides, and being able to show it without showing it. Overall, this dress captured my heart, and the judges' hearts too. 

Overall, the key to being successful in your dress choices is finding out what dresses and colors suit you, and what you want to wear. The most confident you will feel is when you wear something that you picked yourself!

This was a short one, but you’ll hear from me again soon!
Have a good day and tell someone you love them!

Your friend,
Han

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Wardrobe Photos by Magic Dreams Productions

K. Garcia Prod

Hannah Karki is the current Miss Teen Petite USA. You can follow her on her title's Instagram and website. 

Hannah has been kind enough to write several submissions for us. Follow the link for her other Section 36 Forevers Guest Blogs.