Style Brief 07.23
Call me bananas, but I have this theory that when you start buying clothes you love you stop needing to buy more clothes.
(Feel free to replace “buying” with choosing/acquiring/consuming. Also, lifestyle, health, and body changes may require new wardrobes, yes, but I am speaking to consumption habits where these things are not the priority/driver behind the consumption. Also, I believe wardrobes are built over yearS not months. For many, locating pieces that fit budget, size, and quality standards takes considerable time and effort.)
Question: how many items of clothing are hanging in your wardrobe right now that you just feel… OK about? that you decided to keep because it wasn’t great but it’s OK? that you bought not because you reeaally had to have it, but because it was OK enough to solve a problem at the time you bought it?
Question: how many of those OK pieces do you actually wear? And if you wear them how do you feel in them?
just OK?
meh?
I thought so.
Question: how much more shopping are you still doing because you have only clothes you feel OK about?
OK, so, what might happen if the majority of those OK clothes (I say “majority” because sometimes those OK clothes are great for when you do house chores or mucking horse stalls!) were instead clothes you Love? What if you started only purchasing clothing that made your heart flutter?
Do you know what it feels like to acquire an item that makes your heart flutter?
So this is your February BUY challenge. (“No-buy” challenges are impractical sometimes – so here is your BUY challenge instead.) The next time you are shopping for clothing, take in only what you LOVE. Like, can’t live without love. Soulmate love. I can see a looooong future with this item type of love.
How does your relationship with your wardrobe shift? How does your wardrobe shift? How do YOU shift in the ways you show up?
Items featured in this week’s Style Brief:
Vintage purse (unlabeled) purchased at a small Somerville, New Jersey vintage shop, 2000~2004
Kiki de Montparnasse leather gloves purchased at their Soho, NYC location, 2007
Chanel leather sock boots purchased Bergdorff NYC, 2012-3?
Theory leather pants purchased online, 2011-12?
Suno embroidered top purchased online as a resale item, 2021
I don’t purchase a lot, but when I do purchase an item I want it to check off a few boxes such as: I will have for ten years; there is nothing else like this in the wardrobe; does this make my heart blush and flutter as though I am flirting with a really handsome person.
I have procrastinated on this announcement for as long as I could until I really started to think about how getting dressed as helped me create major shifts in my life — and even keep up hope in depressive episodes — and perhaps, it can do the same for you.
Longer term 1:1 styling sessions are now back after a very long break. We are beginning with month to month services and working our way toward 8-month services that culminate in a photo shoot (launching in April).
For those who feel they are ready to clear out all the old of their closets, find themselves and a signature style (and yes, while using natal astrology as a guide), sign up for personal styling at more than 1/2 off the price this week only. All of the details on what we do and how we do it are through the Personal Styling Link in my profile. ❤️
