Fashion defines your personality, fashion is what looks good on you, fashion also makes you stand out, fashion helps people understand what you're really like and makes you look unique. when we look at The Vampire Diaries we can differentiate different characters by the way they dress and look example, though Nina Dobrev plays two different characters, we can still tell the difference of when she plays Katherine piers and when she's Elina Gilbert just by the way they dress.
Stefan Salvatore and Damon Salvatore:
Lets first of all look at the vampire brother's style, as we can see below they are both in dark colored clothes, this is an important fact to the Vampire world, it symbolizes who they are, a symbol of dark mystery and danger it also explains their species if you think deeper. They like to dress in dark clothes most of the time but they do not dress alike.
Back in the day:
When you want to show the past, depending on it's time it is important to show the difference in clothing, we all know as the time changes fashion changes. So here is how the brothers look back in the 1800's when they show the flash back scenes. As we can see Damon there the elder brother is dressed like a soldier, he was supposed to go to a war but didn't because he wanted to spend more time with Katherine Piers.
Damon's style:
The stylist of the show Jennifer Bryan said she had to make sure she doesn't dress them alike and so Damon is dressed in a sense that his clothes must have a sense of timeliness so his wears things that exist back then but also have a modern touch in to it so he wears a lot of round neck t-shirts and collared, button-front shirts, Levi jeans and leather jackets.
Stefan's style:
For Stefan, who's chosen to live a more normal life among some of the mortals, his wardrobe is all about allowing him to blend in. He's trying to fit in the high-school environment so he must wear clothes that will allow him to blend in and cover his secret, he wear a plaid prints and hoodies with a some color.
