https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:54:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083575 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:50:14 +0000 Snowqueen 1083575@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have never literally tossed everything, but I have boxed up all or moved all but a few items to a different location. Later on I donate or sell what I do not miss.</p> <p>If I have only items I truly love and that really work for me remaining, I can get a better idea of the "pattern" you mentioned and see the holes I have.&nbsp; </p> <p>For example, if I move the colors I never wear out of my closet, I can focus on the fact that I prefer a base of camel, charcoal, ivory and indigo blue with a bit of burgundy or deep pink mixed in here and there.&nbsp; This keeps me from thinking a bright green sweater or brown skirt that goes with nothing is a good idea.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083501 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:37:03 +0000 Anonymous 1083501@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*nodding* I agree with Emily, that's a great quote from you. Also, are those items making an outfit that I even feel like wearing? There are only a few items that I've regretted purging, and I suspect if I were to miraculously find them in a spare closet and try them again, I would remember the reason I got rid of them in the first place.&nbsp;I have even culled&nbsp;things in current rotation, because I needed to stop myself from wearing them in order to propel my style forward.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083396 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:04:19 +0000 Emily 1083396@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>"There are still a lot of things I have because I think they make an outfit, but now I’m not sure they are making the outfits I need." &lt;-- thiiiis</p> <p>I'm going back to read about your three seasons strategy now... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083373 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:34:05 +0000 Alexandra 1083373@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Way to go! I like the idea of asking your clothes hard questions. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083322 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 05:37:44 +0000 Cloves and Butter Rum Candy 1083322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You are more generous than I am... &nbsp;I would also ask my cardigan if it's new purpose is to return some of the money I used to buy it. &nbsp;I'm planning a purge and some articles of clothing have already been marked for consignment. &nbsp;</p> <p>I also really like the idea of talking to my clothing as I decide what to do with it. &nbsp;But then, I like to anthropomorphize everything. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083223 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:27:28 +0000 Joyce B 1083223@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great post. You got me thinking about my own closet... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083217 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:25:20 +0000 Suz 1083217@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love this!! Just keep asking those questions. Love the idea of talking to your closet. I need to give my closet another talking to soon. There is a certain LBD that I think is only there in case of emergencies that are not going to happen.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083213 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:23:05 +0000 MuseumGal 1083213@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Is your purpose to help goodwill - yes, that appears to be the point of most of my wardrobe right now! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083135 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 02:03:18 +0000 Archer 1083135@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Resonation, resonation&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083131 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:58:46 +0000 anne 1083131@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Way to go! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1083095 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:24:47 +0000 shedev 1083095@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No need to apologize. These thoughts will resonate with many. There is something liberating about letting go.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/liberating-thoughts-and-actions-may-herald-style-breakthroughs#post-1082939 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:45:00 +0000 unfrumped 1082939@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>&nbsp;Sorry for so much closet-gazing, &nbsp;but have had a recent few days off and used part for fall cleanup, inside the home and out. So there's a theme going.</p> <p>Recently, &nbsp;gradfashionista talked about her thoughts on possibly tossing out most of her wardrobe in order to get to a new order of things. In my usual cautious way I said, maybe so, maybe no, maybe go slow. As if this were something &nbsp;I could never contemplate.</p> <p>Hahaha.</p> <p>No, I’m not going to toss out 80 or 90% of my wardrobe, but I will say I have a new appreciation for that thought process.&nbsp;I don't&nbsp;have a goal of tossing out things just to have a "clean slate" and make more mistakes, but&nbsp;I keep seeing more of the purpose behind whittling down&nbsp;further and further if items are not right, and not always keeping them as placeholders.&nbsp;</p> <p>After I made some purchases I’ve liked, and reorganized my closet and brought some more things together under one roof, so to speak, there is more of a pattern emerging and I’m now looking at things and going, umm, why? Where does this belong in the scheme? There are still a lot of things I have because I think they make an outfit, but now I’m not sure they are making the outfits I need.</p> <p>&nbsp;Though, I just very happily remixed a black shirt that I was not sure was earning its keep.</p> <p>My 3-season strategy is helping me , though it is underpinned by more seasonal subdivisions or capsule thinking, loosely. For example, I can look at a group of cardigans and ask (talking to my clothes) do you look good and work hard, or are you a pretty do-nothing? Are you for year-round truly, or maybe do you bring happy spring colors to my dark skirts,&nbsp; &nbsp;or warm fall colors to my gray pants, or what? What is your purpose?&nbsp;Is your purpose to help Goodwill?</p> <p>Need more boxes!</p>