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Wardrobe Spring-cleaning

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Have you already started taking out the heavier winter clothes from your wardrobe? I have, and you should too. A few days ago I took out all the thick jumpers, wooly trousers, etc. etc. I also made a huge pile of items I had not used at all this winter, or the previous ones in some cases, they are going to live somewhere else, a much happier life, where somebody else is going to love them and appreciate them….20151_beca06a_wardrobes_PH121184There is nothing worse than having clothes you don’t like anymore filling up your wardrobe, they make the nice ones look bad too. Rearranged my remaining clothes and WOW! I suddenly had plenty of nice things to wear!!!! They were all there before I started but they were buried under lots of horrible ones!!

I always find there are some things which help with the way your wardrobe looks, therefore with the way your clothes look too:

  • I always have my hangers the same (mine are wooden) and pointing the same way 201311_Hooks_hangers
  • I have some nice boxes where I keep my belts rolled up nicely and my scarves too

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  • I fold my clothes all the same width, they look so much better! I also put similar colours together
  • The hanging ones are colour coded too…and of course by type (jackets, shirts, etc.)hanging-clothes-26039860

Am I starting to sound like I am a little too tidy? No, I don’t think so. I think this is just a way to make what you already have look nicer or rather, as nice as it should be. This is just the difference between an ironed shirt and a creased one. Which one would you rather have?!

 

 

E.

 

Exxxxaggerating

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I feel compelled to write about this need to “over do it” a lot of us have. I have been looking at several Blogs lately and all I see is a lot of trying really hard to stand out by wearing exaggerated outfits. I am not against the odd unusual and flamboyant piece of clothing, but this:

Doesn’t look nice and doesn’t suit them either. Although I have always felt one can and should dress as one pleases, I just can’t understand why a person feels the need to either follow trends at all costs, even if they don’t suit her (or  doesn’t even like them), or when the clothes she wears make her look silly. Worse yet, when a person, in order to look different, will wear the strangest thing she can find, just to be noticed. Take the pictures above: there’s way too much going on. If you take, sometimes, not always, the single pieces on their own, they are nice. But all together?!! It just becomes a mess. Some of them instead are just ghastly and I have the feeling they have been worn in order to impress only. And anyway, would you not want to be remembered for yourself, without an accurate idea of what you were wearing but leave as memory a sense of elegance, taste, or be remembered for your rather strange look? I would prefer the former. Chic isn’t having on all the trends at once or any trends for that matter!

Isn’t this much better:

Perhaps I am wrong but I do think “less is more”. By this is just my point of view (and that of numerous more famous people who have said it before me).

E.