What is Elegance?

Question

what makes a person elegant? why are some people beautiful but not elegant? how can you acquire elegance?

what makes a person elegant? why are some people beautiful but not elegant? how can you acquire elegance?

i've had some excellent answers about elegance, and most of them include grace. along the same lines, what is grace?

Answer 1

Elegance is the attribute of being unusually effective and simple. It is frequently used as a standard of tastefulness, particularly in the areas of visual design and decoration. Elegant things exhibit refined grace and dignified propriety.

Some westerners associate elegance with simplicity and consistency of design, focusing on the main or basic features of an object, its dignified gracefulness, or restrained beauty of style.

Others understand the word in an opulent light as in tasteful richness of design or ornamentation "the sumptuous elegance of the furnishings."

The proof of a mathematical theorem is considered to have mathematical elegance if it is surprisingly simple yet effective and constructive; similarly, a computer program or algorithm is elegant if it uses a small amount of intuitive code to great effect. Visual stimuli are frequently considered elegant if a small number of colors and stimuli are used, emphasizing the remainder. The color white is often associated with elegance, usually along with blue or black.

Answer 2

A person that is elegant doesn't walk, they float. They don't talk, they speak. They don't smile, they radiate. She is always sweet, always kind, never swears, and always has pristine manners.
I think elegance comes with age. Its something you acquire and have to work hard at.
Just because a person is pretty doesn't make them elegant. Some women are the most beautiful you may have ever layed your eyes on, but they may be the ugliest inside and not have a stitch of manners.
You acquire it with time....

Answer 3

elegance ads to being beautiful when expensive jewelry (such as gold and diamonds) are added to the look, or a certain famous designer has designed the gown a woman is wearing, or the woman's makeup and hair are flawless and taken care of by expensively paid professionals. Elegant could also mean a train added to the gown (and maybe even the train being wide, noticeable, eye catching, sparkling). And an event could be elegant when many baskets of flowers decorate the occasion, when there is something like a red carpet leading the way.

How can you acquire elegance? It takes lots of money, style, poise.

Answer 4

Well. Elegance refers to refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners. Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation. Grace of style with exactness and precision.

A person can be beautiful, but if they have bad manners, they are not considered elegant. Elegance has to do with not only your "looks", but the way you behave. You presentation, and style when approaching someone. A bit a humbleness and grace demonstrates beauty that men consider "hard to find".
Learning to keep respect of others ethics, values, economical background and upbringings. That is what makes elegance. :)
And remember, you don't have to be physically beautiful to carry elegance. Sometimes it's you mannerism and what is in your heart.
Princess Diana is an example of elegance. She wasn't the most beautiful (physically) looking person comparing her to Carmen Electra, Angelina Jolie, and ect. But it was the way she carried herself, and she was very humble. Princess Diana was (cute) but made beautiful because that is who she was inside. And not to mention she had money to wear the best, and give her best, and be her best.

Answer 5

You do not have to be beauty to be elegant. A person with elegance knows what to say and what not to say, knows how to act so as to not offend anyone, and she must have poise. She must be confident but not arrogant, and friendly but not overly talkative.

Answer 6

elegance is the potrait of how one carries herself...with sheer elegance...well that comes naturally its in you ..your stature...the way you speak and your approach..small movements..delicate...let me see..the first lady Jacqueline Kennedy....is a perfect example..you can tell by even how her first name is spelled..And a small tidbit of her (, this ten year stretch of time debuted with the stark simplicity and elegance of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, America’s youngest First Lady, the living reflection of a calm, prosperous era.)
Grace Kelly is another... Mrs. Ronald Reagan....Mrs Richard Nixon...Mrs Henry B. Gonzales...Mrs Joseph P. Wyatt ...Mrs.Lady Bird Johnson...
but I seem to have problems finding one in this day and time...a young elegant lady...hmmm?? if you can help out i will be greatful...

Answer 7

You need to be born with elegance....I don't know...I think one of these persons was Coco Chanel...She had fashion and style instead of blood...God, I love her...

Answer 8

polite,kind, gentle,humble dignity who's beauty cannot be altered by physical means. read SHAKESPEARE'S sonnet #116 which goes something like LETme not to the marriage of true minds ADMIT impediments; love is not love WHICH alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove....................in other words true elagence is adamant in the face of evil opposition and will not surrender its inner undefiled beauty to the whims and temtations of the world, popularity, public opinion, threats,isolation or even death.

Answer 9

Everyone's definition of elegance is different. My definition is sleek, chic and sophicated.

Answer 10

Don't be overconfident and be happy you are you. Hey we're twins by the way...