Hi Sterling! Hope you have a nice and relaxed weekend and thank you for your great posts. It is very interesting and helpful to read about how your reflect over your style, the challenge and how your priorities evolve.

As for the question of fit - I realised how helpful it is to take photos of how an outfit actually looks on me. Have not done anything like it before. It gives me a very different picture from only looking in the mirror. Priceless. During the two weeks I have done this, I have re-evaluated a number of items and outfits.

Katerina -- You showed me the power of pictures. I decided to take pictures of one garment per day and let the Forum help me decide fit. The Forum was so helpful in deciding the fate of three items already donated, I look to their collective wisdom.

Toban -- You are so right to remind me to take thing slow. I agree it will be a lot of work to cruise the mall and I'm up to the task. I just won't be doing much of anything the whole month of January.

I would certainly LOVE to shop with you. I live about five hours south of you. The closet edit using a local stylist is brilliant. Srah did just that and she was extremely happy with the results. I searched the internet and found two possible stylists in my area. I'll likely reach out the stylist in February Of course, I'll let you know how it goes.

I was thrilled that all my bras fit, Tanstaafl! YAY me.

Sterling- I just want to thank you again for initiating this challenge and your continued engagement with everyone. I am learning so much. I
have been especially interested in everyone’s different approaches and different styles.

I really like your velvet top - so glad it wasn’t coffee stained.

Love that you have recognized and created your “power suit” uniform. As Angie noted the dressier shoes, colourful tops, and jewelry are really working. Your look is very polished.

I will check out Stylebook based on your recommendation- I not so secretly love statistics :))

Hope your boyfriend is healing quickly and well. Be sure to take good care of the caretaker too!

Regarding fit- I am actually very obsessive about fit. When I made all my clothes they were so comfortable and much much more flattering. I haven’t had time to sew for the last 5+ years so have relied on RTW which does not fit me well at all. So I have felt sloppy & unstylish in my clothing and I just gave up. It might be worth searching out a good alternations specialist, just adding some waist shaping in a boxy garment can make a huge difference and is pretty simple to do. And wearing pants that really fit (the holy grail for many seamstresses) is just bliss.

Lynn - If you have any questions regarding Style Book, reach out to me. I have had great success with it over these past few months. It is SO FUN. And the instant visual really knocks you back if you are a duplicator (like I am). You see instantly that wow, you have 18 tops all very similar in design.