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white_hart) wrote2019-02-03 07:08 pm
white_hart) wrote2019-02-03 07:08 pm
Uniforms
A knitting designer I follow on Twitter, Karie Westermann, tweeted last night:
This made me think a bit, and I realised that I am the complete opposite: I could have 45 pieces of clothing in my wardrobe (I probably do, or even more than that), and I'd just end up making versions of the exact same outfit out of them, and not wearing the ones that didn't fit that. What that outfit is has changed over the years; in the early to mid 00s, it was trouser suits, and then even though I thought I was playing with clothes and having fun with my appearance I was basically wearing A-line skirts with fitted tops, and then jersey dresses. Now I've stopped wanting to spend time thinking about what to wear and it's trousers and jersey tops (frequently stripy) all hte way. I still own quite a few of the jersey dresses, and even some of the A-line skirts (though the trouser suits are long gone), but I don't wear them because they don't feel like me any more.
Apparently my sense of who I am is very much wrapped up in having a consistent look.
I'm really fascinated by minimalist capsule wardrobe plans. I mean, yay for create 45 looks out of 5 pieces, but I use my clothes to play with identity & so my wardrobe is full of weirdness.
This made me think a bit, and I realised that I am the complete opposite: I could have 45 pieces of clothing in my wardrobe (I probably do, or even more than that), and I'd just end up making versions of the exact same outfit out of them, and not wearing the ones that didn't fit that. What that outfit is has changed over the years; in the early to mid 00s, it was trouser suits, and then even though I thought I was playing with clothes and having fun with my appearance I was basically wearing A-line skirts with fitted tops, and then jersey dresses. Now I've stopped wanting to spend time thinking about what to wear and it's trousers and jersey tops (frequently stripy) all hte way. I still own quite a few of the jersey dresses, and even some of the A-line skirts (though the trouser suits are long gone), but I don't wear them because they don't feel like me any more.
Apparently my sense of who I am is very much wrapped up in having a consistent look.