For a few reasons - namely, that my wardrobe is in a really good place in 2020 and has been recently “edited” to reduce what I wasn’t wearing - barring an emergency, I’m planning to not buy any clothing items from now until Nordstrom Anniversary Sale in summer 2020 when I typically do a refresh.

(I know I will plan to buy bras at the sale because my favorite Elomi style is usually offered, and typically I evaluate what’s available and what I want to add at that point, plus autumn is such a dominant season for us in Seattle that the sale often offers new items that I can wear for much of the year. That being said... 2019 offerings were pretty disappointing for plus sizes, so I don’t know that I’ll add much this year.)

Going into the Shop Your Closet year, I’m showing my last “new” purchase and an ode to old favorites: Sejour leather jackets, gorgeously cut and made by Nordstrom’s discontinued plus size line (no, I’m not over it, because there’s no equivalent replacement.) Right at the end of the year I found a local third party seller who had a new, tags-on black Sejour moto jacket in my size for less than 30% of its original retail price. It’s a little wrinkled here as it was JUST out of the mail, but it’s in great shape.

My other Sejour leather moto jackets are here - soft, beautiful colors, cut well for my body even with my supershort high waist.

(I have another in grey that has a ripped shoulder - an accident on my part when I snagged it while walking by a sharp hook - that I really want to patch, but I’m waiting until I have a little supervision on color matching from the artists in my family before I break out the leather patch kit.)

Also deserving a mention: this Sejour skirt suit (photos circa 2013.) A lovely sales associate at my nearest Nordstrom store (which closed this year) helped me pick it out. She was amazing and ALWAYS remembered me and what I’d bought even though I only shopped there a couple times per year. I miss the folks in that small Encore department who made me feel like a special customer every time.

1-3: New-to-me black moto jacket
4-5 Olive green moto (2017)
6-8 Forest green moto (2015)
9-11 Burgundy (2016)
12-14 Black collarless peplum (2016)
15-18 Suit (2013)
19: Grey leather jacket that’s been ripped since shortly after I bought it (Nordstrom doesn’t do leather repairs.) (2017)

Around the same timeframe, 2014-2016, I also purchased some Kut from the Kloth “vegan leather”/pleather and suede jackets. The pleather is already starting to crack and peel on the 2015 & 2016 jackets, and I had to toss the 2014 one out as it was totally shredded. Same thing happened with Eloquii faux-leather culottes. They were well constructed, but faux-leather just does not hold up. I’ll stick with the real stuff from now on when possible.