Hello my dear readers!
It has been a little bit since I last wrote. As projected, this year has not had regular posting like last year. Hopefully I'll still get a few more posts for you guys in the second half of the year.
At some point this summer, my sister told me about a concept called a Capsule Wardrobe. She explained to me that it would be 30 items that you would use for the entire season. My immediate thought was "Oh no! I cannot do that." The idea of having all of the items I would wear, limited to 30 for the next 90 days was more than I can fathom.
This summer, though, I was up in Oregon with my parents just about that long. We ended up taking a flight rather than driving. I had to put all of the things that I was going to use for the summer (including journals, books, sheet music, etc.) into a single bag.
When I got up to Oregon, I realized that I had about 17 items of clothing.
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| The lovely little closet nook |
So with this little nook of the closet, I found that I somewhat was already in a capsule closet situation. I decided to see how it would work. I didn't even have the 30 items, so I made use of my sister's and my mom's clothing. So maybe that was capsule cheating- I'm not sure!
Looking back on it, I was so sure that I was going to have too few clothes. But arriving home yesterday I looked in my closet, and saw things that I knew I wasn't going to use on a regular basis. That turned out to be more frustrating. Why couldn't everything in my closet be what I was going to use every day? So I'm actually finding that having a limited amount of clothes is helping me cut past say, the option of wearing a bright red party dress. That's really only for special occasions, anyway.
An important bonus: When you have fewer items, you can afford to have higher-quality items. As I'm trying to find more sustainable fashion, higher-quality items means they break less often. Then I'm less tempted replace those things with fast fashion. I specifically want steer clear of fast fashion because it can be unfair to its workers (using things like sweatshops) and harsh on the environment (having unsustainable cotton harvesting), for example.
My sister also points out: "If you have a few, carefully curated items that call match each other, you're always going to look chic. And won't have to spend a lot of time coordinating them. Have less, have better!"
So there you have it. I tried something I thought I wasn't going to like. But having less actually benefitted me in a few great ways. Yay for Positive Change!
Thanks for stopping by, and happy Thursday, guys! :)
