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By Cara Bartlett for Darling Magazine
How many of us have stood in front of an overflowing closet and said, “I have nothing to wear”? We scan the closet and it seems like none of our clothes go together and half of them went out of style last week. We wonder how we keep buying new clothes all the time, and yet we still feel unhappy with our wardrobe.
You Need a Plan
No one builds a house without a blueprint, right? We wouldn’t go around buying random pieces of wood and windows that don’t match, and just hope that it would come together somehow. So why do we try to build our wardrobe this way? Our closets are often made up of a series of impulse purchases that have no rhyme or reason. We buy a sequin mini skirt because it’s on sale at J.Crew, and then a red flannel shirt because we saw a blogger wearing it. Then we look into our mismatched closets and wonder why it’s so hard to get dressed in the morning.
Instead of buying things on a whim, we need a plan. The first step is to take a look at our closets and identify the holes — what key items are missing from our wardrobe? What are those pieces that we would love to wear over and over, and that can mix and match with the other things in our wardrobe?
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