When do you decide what to wear?

velvetychocolate

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I'm embarrassed to say that I pick something out as I'm getting dressed.

14 years ago

Transcona Shannon

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VC - at least it's not a half hour AFTER you get to work???

14 years ago

lyn*

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I am going to try some inspired looks ... so I guess I decide whenever I'm bored :p

I need to get some pieces for #5; but I think it's gonna be fabulous. And will happen. Sometime. LOL.

For day-to-day; I decide the night before

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14 years ago

Mo

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Sometimes I drift off to sleep thinking of an outfit but often I put it together the day of. I NEVER plan a whole week in advance. Of course, I wear a uniform when I work so that may negate the whole point of the question lol.

14 years ago

Sara L.

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I plan my outfits out the night before. I get up before my husband and I don't want to be opening drawers and closets and turning on lights while he's trying to sleep. I try to get everything into the bathroom the night before to limit how much I disturb him. Usually I have an idea of the outfits for the week and decide which ones to wear on what days depending on the weather and what's on the day's agenda (meetings, site visits, etc.). All my planning doesn't always work because I never try things on the night before and sometimes the outfit doesn't turn out the way I planned.

14 years ago

Anonymous

Unless I have an event or activity to go to I don't plan it the night before. Even when I do plan an outfit, the weather often has me tweaking the day of. I like to fly by the seat of my pants. I never could get into planning a menu ahead for a week's worth of dinners. I like to see what I *feel* like!

14 years ago

Refugee

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I try to have a general plan at the beginning of the week. But I make a more specific decision the night before. Our weather can change at the drop of a hat and just in case there have been any changes in schedule. But if I wait until the morning of, I'm just a mess.

14 years ago

Suz

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What a great thread, Shannon!

I plan, or not, depending on the day and occasion. Most days I figure it out on the spot. But I'll plan travel capsules, and special events. The thing is, in my life, a lunch date counts as a "special" event, LOL! So the definition is a loose one. If I'm planning in advance, though, I try to come up with options for different weather conditions because nothing is worse than getting all set with an idea only to realize that it won't work with the coat you'll need to wear or your footwear.

When you don't have many clothes in the closet it is pretty easy to pull outfits together on the spot. They may be the same outfits you wore a week ago, but that's what there is.

I have really enjoyed our inspiration threads because they've helped me see another way to manage things and that has been really fun.

14 years ago

Diana

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I decide as I'm getting dressed in the morning. Sometimes I am late for work. =P. occasionally I'll decide beforehand that I really want to wear a particular item the next day or something but I rarely plan the entire outfit ahead of time. The exception is formal or party wear.

14 years ago

Deborah

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Like Claire a lot of my dressing depends on what I "feel" like wearing. If I have an event or something particularly important happening at work I will definitely consider my options well before hand. However often I decide while in the shower in the morning.
As I have become happier with my wardrobe and have begun documenting my outfits on Stylebook, if I need inspiration, I just flip through my outfit pics and often choose something from there.

14 years ago

sgreen

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The morning of and it's always a bad idea since nothing is ironed. I need to get to a night before, at least!

14 years ago

Isabel

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I am a stay at home mom, so I don't plan too much unless I am going out. I sometimes think about it as I am getting ready for bed or as I am lying in bed. But I am very emotion driven by it so most of the time I change something in the morning just because I "feel" like it.

14 years ago

soobee

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I like to have a play around in the wardrobe the night before, when I'm getting ready for a shower. My son caught me the other night when he came in to ask me something, I was pulling out this and that and putting them next to each other on the bed, and he asked "What on EARTH are you doing?". lol. His mother has sure been doing some strange things since joining YLF!

14 years ago

RandomThoughts (Andrea)

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During the work week I decide 'day of". On weekends I plan the night before. For dogs shows I get excited and plan weeks in advance.

I have 4 shows coming up and you bet I'm planning now!!

14 years ago

AJ

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Add me to the emotional dresser list. I've tried many times to plan the night before and dress up my dressform, but the next day, I feel like wearing something else.

14 years ago

AJ

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Also wanted to shout out to lyn*, "Those are some awesome PB outfits and I look forward to seeing your take on them!"

14 years ago

ButterflyLady

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This is a thing I need to work on! Like Suz, a lunch date is an occasion for me - most days I'm at home, studying, doing housework etc and I don't plan what I am going to wear. But I'm very often not that happy with what I end up wearing.

When I'm packing for a trip, I plan my outfits, and it's then that I discover all sorts of wardrobe holes, which makes me think that if I planned just a little bit more (even if I just came up with 10 day-to-day outfits to choose from, instead of trying to make it up on the spot!) I would shop better, and look better.

Hmm, that's food for thought. I plan everything else in my life, why not my clothes?!

14 years ago

kimlee

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I alternate between planning my outfits a week in advance, planning the night before, and flying by the seat of my pants. However, I have found that I tend to love my looks more if I plan them ahead....and generating a week's worth of looks eliminates a lot of headaches on busy mornings.

14 years ago

citygirldc

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My mood and outfits go together so I end up figuring out what to wear before going to work. Not always a good thing because then sometimes I end up changing a few times.

14 years ago

nancylee

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For work/casual days I usually decide the night before, based on how I feel and what I'll be doing that day. This is only since I joined YLF, however. Before YLF I used to decide on the spot in the morning, which was a very frustrating way to go! Of course, sometimes the weather dictates a last-minute change...

For more formal events/parties I usually plan what I'm going to wear days or even weeks ahead.

14 years ago

Sveta

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For work I sometimes plan the night before (I call it "playing in my closet) and sometimes in the morning. I find that I like the result much better when I do it a night before as I have more time to come up with something more interesting and pleasing to myself.
I never plan for a week as I am a mood dresser - and also the weather is hard to predict so far in advance!

14 years ago

Lisa

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I always plan the night before. I do not do well with on the fly outfit planning. I get too stressed in the morning, like a deer in headlights. Often when the weather is steady for a week at a time, I'll plan a week in advance. Then I just check my notepad and check off the outfits as I wear them. This has really helped destress my mornings.

14 years ago

Angie

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Other than for Fashion Week and when we travel, I never plan my daily outfits. It happens as I get out the shower and have to get dressed for the day.

14 years ago

Transcona Shannon

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Interesting ladies - looks like we're tied between the "emotional dressers" and the "planners"!

Now I'm curious that those who decide in the morning what they're wearing, do you get the outfit right immediately? Or is there much tweaking and/or full blown outfit changing?

14 years ago

Stephanie

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I think one of my resolutions is going to be to make a list of outfits that work. I'm definitely an emotional dresser, but I hate trying something on and finding out it doesn't work like it did in my head, when I'm in a rush!

14 years ago

MsMary

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I try to plan the night before. In fact, when Hubby is out of town it's not unusual for me to spend up to an hour trying things on the night before until I come up with the perfect outfit! I have planned a week in advance a few times and I've loved having my outfits all ready to go! I should do that more often. But really I am like Sveta and kimlee -- sometimes I plan the night before, other times I wait until morning and fly by the seat of my seamed pencil skirt.

14 years ago

chewyspaghetti

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If I have someone where to be early, I will plan it. If not, I choose when I am getting dresses- taking all of the factors into account. When I am going through a hard time deciding (usually when the weather changes), I may take a day to plan out a week of outfits.

14 years ago

Aziraphale

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I'm a last-minute decider too! The weather has a lot to do with it. If it's wet out, I won't wear any pants with hems that could potentially drag on the ground. It's either skinnies or a dress/skirt on those days.

14 years ago

rachylou

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I think about it the night before, but I don't lay things out.

14 years ago

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