Week One: 30x30 and a week of pics

Sal

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Thanks Sterling for arranging the challenge!!

My rules are:

The 30 includes clothes, bags and footwear
I am excluding exercise gear worn at the gym or for a walk/run/bike but if I end up wearing it all day it will be included
No lingerie, scarves or jewelry are included nor my wet weather gear.

Why am I doing this challenge?

To have fun
To use accessories more to mix up my look
To incorporate and experiment with some new additions to my wardrobe

Week One:
Monday - work in the office. Wore a new thrifted black jacket with all black.

Tuesday - work from home, Wore new thrifted faux fur coat.

Wednesday - Work in the office. Outfit posted last week on the mixing navy and black thread.

Thursday - Work from home, visit parents and get haircut. Attended sons school production and rugby again. Notable that first time I have worn this dark peach scarf.

Friday - work from home. I had a day filing and sorting my office. I wore slippers/uggs all day but did not include them in the 30.

Saturday - rugby, baking, helping son with making a film - same jeans as Friday and same hoodie as Sunday

Saturday night - dinner out at local restaurant. Also wore faux fur jacket. Felt this looked great on but picture is of poor quality.

Sunday - chores and sorting things, Pictures in silver shoes but yet to leave the house.

Lessons to date:

I like the statement piece - the faur fur and new jacket add this boldness as do my silver shoes.
My colour palette is not terribly cohesive - maybe I could think about a black based capsule and a warm based capsule. I am okay with this though and seem to get by.
It could be a struggle with the week of rugby viewing. I possibly need to remove a couple of workwear options to think ahead to this time. It can be cold and wet and muddy. I will need to have pants that work with rainboots. I could remove the bags from the list but that seems like cheating:)
Because I am trying to photograph my looks I am upping my accessory game. I am very happy about this!!
I have to laugh from the relative glamour of Thursday to the Keeping it real of Friday!!!

Thanks- comments are very welcome!!

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6 years ago

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Latest reply was from Jenni NZ

Emily K

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I think Winter is a tougher season during which to limit one's wardrobe. Your silver shoes are really great. That is my favorite outfit. Congratulations for posting the "keeping it real" photos--in truth, I bet all of us will be doing that since this project is about everything--not just the best outfit we ever made

6 years ago

Sal

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Yes winter is tougher in that there are coats and third pieces to consider. I have three or four coats in my 30 capsule plus one-two jackets. And our climate is not that cold really....

Yes I had to laugh about Friday when I added the photo!!

6 years ago

Anonymous

OH! I love these. I love the variation!!! I especially love the Friday picture because of the attitude you present. Sheer, I dare you not to love this. And the silver shoes are killer.

Statement pieces do make the look. I love both your coats ... especially the big, fluffy one. That is the one I would want to be seen in.

Lessons learned is the most important aspect this challenge. I am going to follow your lead and list them as part of my weekly summary.

I know some of us defined our 30 items up front, but I think we have to be flexible. Adding an additional garment or two is perfectly ok. If not adding the substituting a few items is a good solution. I sincerely don't remember including bags in our original 30 x 30 challenge. I vaguely remember it was all about the clothes. I remember really focusing on my clothes. I have no memory of accessories being part of it.

You are in Winter. I am in Summer. This challenge is a lot easier for me than for you (not one single topper or third piece). I wanted to really challenge myself and made the decision to include one bag (truthfully, I was planning on using the same bag over the entire Summer anyway). Including bags might not work as well for you. I vote you reconsider.

6 years ago

Anonymous

First off, I like the idea of posting a "what did I learn" . Good idea.
Love the faux fur, love the new black jacket ,and I always love your haircuts !

6 years ago

Anonymous

It is interesting: your life requires a lot of clothes. It seems to be equally distributed between work, gym, and outdoor activities. And there is some going out too.
I have that combo too, but the split is 70%, 15%, 15% so I can load all my numbers into work. I really only need 1 outdoor activity outfits (plus raincoat plus rain boots).

Anyway...if it were me, I might trade in a pair or two of work pants for some outdoor activity items.

I LOVE the colours in the peach scarf outfit. Those are excellent on you. I also like your dress with the gold clutch. The fluffy coat is a great statement. Really like that too.

6 years ago

Joy

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Wonderful outfits and summary of your week and learnings. This week I learned how much I still needed toppers as I wore one at least part of every day although it is technically summer here. You always look great.

6 years ago

Jaime

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Love your glam faux fur!

6 years ago

Dianna

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Wow, fabulous outfits. Love the two outfits with the faux furia coat as well as the one with the silver oxfords

6 years ago

skylurker

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I think statement pieces work when they give that feeling that they "make the outfit". Which is the case here.
The faux fur in particular works so well on you, the cocoon shape has a retro feminity you can rock. Plus, it looks cuddly.
Also love the pink, peach and faded denim combo.

6 years ago

Style Fan

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Your outfits are all very fabulous. I love your faux fur coat. Very glam. Statement pieces are so important to an outfit. You have some great ones.
I like how you set up your lessons learnt. I am going to try that when I write my week up.

6 years ago

Angie

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GREAT all round.

LOVE the faux fur coat with your hair and those boots, Sal. Killer look, and so is the dotty frock.

6 years ago

Anonymous

Sal! Something awful happened. I went to the gym and found myself doing errands afterward. I didn't care what people thought because I was tired from the exercise.

But it is 3:33 pm EST and I am STILL in my leggings (switched tops though). By your rules (I am excluding exercise gear worn at the gym or for a walk/run/bike but if I end up wearing it all day it will be included), I should count it in my 30 x 30! OH NO. I want dispensation!!

I even laid out my outfit today. I just never put it on. Wait. It is not too late, I can go put it on right now!

Whew. That was close!

6 years ago

Sal

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LOL Sterling, you can make your own rules, I was just keeping myself accountable:)

Thanks Angie - this faux fur was a true wildcard but it has been a fab one.

Stylefan - I am a fan of the wildcard statement piece. It does mean I need essentials to make the whole thing work as I am not a true maximalist.

Skylurker - I completely agree with you, thanks for the kind words.

Thanks Dianna, Joy, LisaP and Shevia:)

Smittie - yes our percentages are different. I really could wear jeans and a fleece for work but I prefer to be a bit dressier. I only need about two dressy work looks each season for the odd meeting. Most of my going out is pretty casual (often sports related or family related) but I have more freedom now I have a 15 year old son....

Thanks all, The lessons are in a way the most important part. What I was most pleased about is actually wearing my accessories. I will repeat my outfits during the challenge but want to challenge myself to tweak the accessories even in a small way.

6 years ago

Suz

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Sally, you look amazing in that faux fur! So cuddly and it works with your light tan booties and hair so well. I also love the peach scarf outfit colours on you. But my favourite outfit is that last one -- silver shoes for the win!

I'm impressed with your thought process here. If it were me, and I were doing a 30x30 challenge in my own winter, I think I would exclude coats, bags, accessories, and gear. And I would include at least some " rugby viewing" outfits -- or portions of those outfits -- as gear in this case. I mean, assuming you wear them essentially to the muddy field and not elsewhere. Okay, there might be a crossover item or two (a top you don't change out of afterwards) but if you can't really easily go anywhere in the clothes following the parental duties, except maybe for coffee with equally muddy parents, I think maybe they are a gear-equivalent separate capsule and should not count. I'm not trying to relax the rules so they are useless, but simply acknowledging the variety of roles in your life. I have a wide range of roles, also, and extremes of temperature even within a season, so I find it complicated to do these challenges. You are brave!

6 years ago

Sal

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Thanks Suz.

Yes the week of rugby viewing is an interesting fashion challenge - but believe me there is very little fashion involved!! It will depend on the weather, on a crisp cold day jeans and boots with a wool coat will be fine. On a rainy muddy day it will be very different. And I will be working as well as watching my son so it will be a full-on week.

Since effectively I will only have four-five more office days including today I think I will be fine, I just have to be clear not to include any more office clothes in the 30. As I can wear jeans to work it should not be a problem.

I think many of us on YLF have these lives where you don't go the office from 9-5pm or are fully a MOTG all week either.

6 years ago

Brooklyn

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You look great Sally. I am really impressed with the variety you were able to achieve. And I love your pose in the last photo!

I think this challenge is a lot harder to do in winter. I think you should get a special allowance for the extra layers that you need

I see what you mean about the range of colours in your 30/30 capsule. I have found that deliberately limiting my colour palette has really improved my ability to mix and match items in my wardrobe. But this may not be such an issue for you - I think you are a much happier colour mixer than I am.

It will be interesting to see your week 2!

6 years ago

Suz

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What Brooklyn said about layers. It's way easier to do it in summer.

Limiting colours also helped me enormously...but it also creates some difficulties for these 30 x 30 (or other) capsules since my whole closet is essentially a capsule anyway and everything goes with everything else except sometimes in terms of fabric weight and/or silhouette. Plus, I would like a bit more colour -- I'm very neutral heavy with blue, white, and grey being hugely predominant.

6 years ago

Sal

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Haha Brooklyn, this was the most rushed WIW ever. And I have a red spot on the side of my nose and didn't have makeup on because - Sunday morning at home!! Week Two won't be super different to week one but I won't be revealing until next weekend.....

I like colour but I don't think I am a great mixer, lots of colour and neutrals for me - or mostly black.

Suz - I think retailers go on colour binges and if the colours that you like are not around then what can you do? Green (aside from olive) has been very hard to locate here for a long time.. Orange was everywhere about three years ago and nowhere to be seen right now. This winter is very metallic, a fair bit of pink (bright and blush) and lots of neutrals. I can normally find some red but it is not always available in lots of styles.

6 years ago

Jenni NZ

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Must mention my admiration of the faux fur coat! Bet it gets lots of comments. People like to touch my Witchery faux fur vest

6 years ago

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