Continuing my approach to the new year's wardrobe review, by not just thinking of what to add or subtract, but how to improve my processes.
I have at times had FOMO--fear of missing out; not missing a trend, usually, but typically missing out on a type of garment or fabrication I'd been looking for, think maybe I found it, even if was not perfect, so = fear that this was IT and a better interation might not come along. I still have this.
For example, I saw the AT blazer below and my first thought was, oh, here is a not-black-but-goes-with -black blazer in a sort of classic style and I tend to need not-black for my jackets and maybe I should get this. This is not because I have to have it to wear now to complete an outfit, but because I think I probably will want to wear it sometime and then poof, I couldn't find one. So I would be tempted to order it and and also tempted to keep it if it was pretty good. Then I would have another blazer that maybe in a few years might look outdated. (I have not ordered it !).
My long noodle on DK and French stuff is more related to FOWO--" Fear of Wearing Out" and again, with a twist, not exaclty wearing out physically, though that is there for sure--" better not wear out this burgundy sweater that is totally my FFBO life-saver"-- but also fear that if I wear something often for a while, I might get tired of it, and then I'd want to replace it so, I ought to rotate items.
Both experience and YLF have shown me that FOMO is not real--I can always count on findng something else as good or better if I stay flexible
and if I don't start to fret thinking I might have "nothing to wear", that instead I will always have enough things to wear and probably happier things even if there was a style drought.
More recent experience and reflections have shown me that FOWO is also not real; my frequently-worn items don't necessarily lose appeal just due to familiarity, and items that I am not choosing as regularly don't improve much from hanging up in the smokehouse, so to speak, often because they were not as happy/fun in the first place, and in fact may lose freshness. They may also feel fresh when re-examined. It's just not a direct equation. In fact, wearing items frequently helps reinforce and refine what it is I would like to continue, duplicate or change completely.
Over to you--do you have FOMO, FOWO--or something else entirely, like UhOh.
