Clothes clothes everywhere but not a thing to wear.
(Or, Proper Fit is Important to Me)
A two- month sewing binge has brought my daily wardrobe up to standard. It's very minimal, very #capsulewardrobe, very #10coreitems, all that but I basically wear the same thing every day. Black top + black pants, some jumpers and jackets, coat, a few party favourites, the last dress standing for when I'm feeling flirty, and that's it.
But then there's the hoard.
I have this petite hoard of clothes which are at about the 80% mark. Like, it looks lovely but it's one size too big, or it needs a new lining, or it's great fabric which could be cut down into something else, etc. They're all second hand (don't worry, I have exacting standards for clothes at full retail price, which is one of the reasons I hardly ever buy them). They sit and sit. Probably you have one too, whether or not you sew, just stuff that seemed like a good idea at the time...
Except for this one problem area I am quite allergic to keeping stuff around. In most ways I'm pretty brutal about clutter, I don't like having so many things I need to rummage for them, you know? The hoard is often sifted through and culled (sometimes mistakenly) because I feel like there's too much or my ✨style vision✨ has changed. But still there's these odd little garments I've had for years but never had on my back and I keep them around because I could.
It's good and sustainable to keep your wardrobe small, but when it's so minimal sometimes all your seasonal clothes are in the wash at the same time. Ludicrous situation when you have a hoard. So I would like to have a couple more options in rotation and maybe if I went through it systematically there would be no hoard? Hopefully possibly?
Anyway, in my convalescence I broke the seal. A modal/ lyocell trench coat. Lovely jubbly. Since I live in the hot land of ultraviolet any time except right now, it is a beautiful summer cover up. Except it had the oddest most inexplicably large floppy collar I couldn't even figure out how it was meant to sit. It then slid all over my shoulders while I wore it. In a single day that was remedied to a more standard coat collar (with long darts of all things- it was a WEIRD collar). I think I bought it in 2021. Glad you're finally with us.
The real acid test to dispel the hoard: no ifs ands or buts, if I don't feel like altering it now in my altering fervor it must go!!! Clothes do not belong in boxes (plural 👎).
