I tried to stick to 21 pieces for the. I think of November and still have a few days to go but have seen some patterns and decided to do a roundup now. I counted tops, bottoms, and indoor toppers. I did not count outdoor coats or any footwear or accessories or uncerwearI got very bored and saw that to avoid laundry and cleaning bottlenecks I need to duplicate or have similar of, white and black long sleeved tops such as tees or turtlenecks and bottoms that are black and blue denim, and a couple of black toppers These do not need to be identical.
Next time I will designate wearing whatever I want on weekends or certain days of the week to indulge a need for more variety. Being able to wear the same outfit with different footwear and accessories helped a lot. Also the fact that I did not go anywhere.
The tops that got the most wear are an EF orange short- sleeved sweater and an EF light olive long - sleeved merino sweater.(.6 wears each so far) These were followed closely a dark brown turtleneck and a white EF long sleeved tee. Each had a double...an EF dark brown silk crew neck and a thrifted ivory turtleneck. Each color had 4 wears during the month.
Another favorite was a loose knit black pull on sweater.
Most wears in the bottoms category goes to EF slim black Ponte pants( 11 wears). followed closely by EF pull on olive Ponte pants and brown plaid wide legs and denim pull on jeans/joggers.
Most wears In the indoor topper category goes to a black jacket and a long dark brown cashmere cardigan and a grey puffer vest.
Out are dark brown leather pants, dark brown, black and dark grey ( one pair of each color) Chico’s Ponte pants, a grey sweatshirt and probably my pewter booties which no longer feel comfortable.
My neutrals for this experiment were supposed to stay in the autumn range or browns, olive, and ivory. Some grey, black and denim crept in.
I wore lots or orange and mustard and olive in accessories. The weather went from pleasant to frigid. We had a couple of snows in November.
I would do this again, but with some changes for more color and variety.
I learned that I should pick a few colors and stick with them and rely more heavily on neutrals for a smaller wardrobe. I also learned the importance of basics in neutral shades to put together an outfit.
Next month, December, I plan to pull front and center all things holiday and hope to add some new refreshers in this category as I got rid of several things and everything is old. I need to concentrate on casual but festive pieces and accessories. Thank you for reading all this. Thoughts? What did you wear in November?