Loved all those "navel musings" posts lately so I wanted to give my 2 cents on the thema, too.
After almost 5 years on YLF I only felt this year that I have curated my basics. It took me so much, not not only due to limited budget or current (un)availability of some items, but most of all about non-awareness.
I so can remember! For perking up my wardrobe, I first started with buying some nice/more unconventional accesoiries for pennies and splurgeing on some replacement basic outerwear (so low and high end together:-)). That was my way of having a bit of fun with fashion and style at a low budget and relatively low availability of fashionable clothing items(had to travel a lot for my clothes:-)).
Then continued with a mishmash of purchasing for other sections in my wardrobe: tops, skirts, dresses, shoes and bags. But I can so well recall the moment when my light bulb went on for pencils...then for day dresses.
Always focused pretty much on one at a time.
I kept account of my outfits for all these 5 years (taking picties help sooo much!!!) but I wasn't really aware about what I need (for my lifestyle and my style goals) until last 2 years- when strictly wrote down all my purchases in a calendar, per categories, shops, cloting item and all.
Then I found myself analyzing these lists: per season, per brand, per budget, per colour, per capsule, and so on...you name it.
It helped a lot to see all things in retrospective comming all together.
I started to feel like I have all I need and that it all goes with (almost) everything in my closet, only at the end of last year year, and still have some holes!!
BUT, these holes are only the icing on the cake I say. It was a big work to reach here- now it comes the real fun(replacing basics again, anyone?:-))
Oh, and I came back to edit, that's why I no more can imagine my life without YLF:-)).
After almost 5 years on YLF I only felt this year that I have curated my basics. It took me so much, not not only due to limited budget or current (un)availability of some items, but most of all about non-awareness.
I so can remember! For perking up my wardrobe, I first started with buying some nice/more unconventional accesoiries for pennies and splurgeing on some replacement basic outerwear (so low and high end together:-)). That was my way of having a bit of fun with fashion and style at a low budget and relatively low availability of fashionable clothing items(had to travel a lot for my clothes:-)).
Then continued with a mishmash of purchasing for other sections in my wardrobe: tops, skirts, dresses, shoes and bags. But I can so well recall the moment when my light bulb went on for pencils...then for day dresses.
Always focused pretty much on one at a time.
I kept account of my outfits for all these 5 years (taking picties help sooo much!!!) but I wasn't really aware about what I need (for my lifestyle and my style goals) until last 2 years- when strictly wrote down all my purchases in a calendar, per categories, shops, cloting item and all.
Then I found myself analyzing these lists: per season, per brand, per budget, per colour, per capsule, and so on...you name it.
It helped a lot to see all things in retrospective comming all together.
I started to feel like I have all I need and that it all goes with (almost) everything in my closet, only at the end of last year year, and still have some holes!!
BUT, these holes are only the icing on the cake I say. It was a big work to reach here- now it comes the real fun(replacing basics again, anyone?:-))
Oh, and I came back to edit, that's why I no more can imagine my life without YLF:-)).
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