The One Year Wardrobe Challenge

I am doing a "wear everything in your wardrobe challenge", where you have one year to wear everything in your wardrobe, dresser drawers etc. The idea is that anything that I don't wear, I get rid of. After a year, often if I am not wearing things, I probably won't go back and wear them. Clothes get out of date, out of shape, fade, or get holes, so this regime is helping me find out what is dated, and helping me to take action about them. It also helped me understand what it is that I really wear most often. 

I have given things away, sold items, and donated things to charity. I have made a few small bag drops to the Sallies as I have found things that don't fit, that I don't like wearing, or that I can't mend or repurpose. It has made more room in my wardrobe for more Fluevogs ;-D 

And because we are doing this at the office, it has become really fun. We have had some really cool and off-piste outfits that have really entertained both lecturers and students alike. 

As the year has gone on, I have found it more challenging to wear particular pieces. Most stuff is mix and match, but there are a few things that need a whole outfit designed around them. I had one burgundy shirt in my drawers that I hadn't worn, so worked up a green and burgundy ensemble from all sorts of bits and pieces I have lurking in the wardrobe, and tied that to a pair Fluevog Hopefuls Esperanzas: the grape colour (photo above).

I was wracking my brains for what to wear with a silver lame T-shirt and a gorgeous grey, multi-coloured flower-embroidered jacket (they won't go with each other, and I have no grey vogs), but I found that some Fluevog Hopefuls Rosys, a black velvet bolero jacket and a black patchwork skirt that I have only just realised actually had silvery stripes in it to at long last co-ordinate with the silver t-shirt (photo above too). I like the creativity in having to use everything.

... but that doesn't stop me shopping for vogs, scarves, gloves, tights and earrings :-)


Sam