Project Wardrobe: Post 1
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After washing my clothes on Friday, I realized that it might be time to clean out my closet. I simply had no place to put a lot of the clean clothes. And let’s face it: most of the clothes end up so far back in the closet that I never get to wear them, anyway.
The last fact became abundantly clear, as I was contemplating buying a V-neck sweater when I was home for Christmas, but came back and discovered that I had the exact same sweater in my closet - with the tag still on…
Some pieces in my wardrobe has been there for ages, literally. I’ve got a t-shirt that was picked up in a mall in NJ in 1996. It’s so oversized that it still fits 11 years later, but as I’ve been using it as a gym t-shirt for the past eight years, it’s looking decidedly ratty.
Other pieces are the result of impulse-buying, or them being on sale. I’ll be the first to admit that a few of my fave pieces, that suited me, were the result of such shopping - but most of them really aren’t all that suitable.
With a wardrobe filled to the max, it is difficult to calculate what to wear, and I often end up in jeans and sweater/t-shirts.
Given that I’ll be moving into the working world full time after graduating in a year, it is definitely time to move away from the high school-college-grad school line I’ve been sticking to these past years. The beginning is cleaning out clothes that don’t fit, don’t look good, or I never wear because of some reason or another. If I can imagine myself wearing them, they’ll stay, I think.
Of course, still being a lowly grad student, I don’t have the oodles of cash supporting a top-line new wardrobe, but it should be entirely possible to find suitable choices both in the low and middle price-range. I hope.
Anyway, this is the first step (admitting I have a problem). We’ll see how well the following steps go.