Four Easy Steps to a Wardrobe that You Love – Part 4: Complete your wardrobe with items that make you look and feel your best
Sunday, April 14, 2024
You’ve done all the hard work – You’ve assessed your current lifestyle and personal style. You’ve shopped your closet using our three easy steps. And you’ve used our checklist of wardrobe basics (COMING SOON) to assess any gaps in your wardrobe. Now comes the fun part – to complete your wardrobe with items that you love because they make you look and feel your best. This includes wardrobe basics that you may be lacking but also statement pieces. And because these items make you look and feel your best, you will inevitably wear these items over and over again because you are excited to wear any and all of them!
To look and feel your best requires intentionality. And looking and feeling your best go hand in hand. When you look good, you feel good, and vice versa. It’s a continuous feedback loop.
To look your best, your clothes must...
- Fit properly – Clothes that fit automatically make you look polished and put together, regardless of how casually you are dressed. Be ruthless about only purchasing clothes that fit correctly. If that means having fewer pieces in your wardrobe, so be it. You don’t need as many clothes as you think. As an example, if you have five tops and five bottoms and they all work together, that's already 25 different outfits. To ensure that clothes fit properly, when buying in-store, try them on whenever possible before you buy them. If you are primarily an online shopper, return anything that doesn’t fit. It may take time to make that return, but you will save money in the long run. If you have a body type that is harder to fit with off the rack clothing, purchase pieces with stretch that accommodate a wider range of body types or invest in tailoring to ensure the proper fit.
- Flatter your body type - We come in all shapes and sizes, and we are all beautiful. There are five main body types for women: hourglass, apple, pear, inverted triangle/carrot, and rectangle/straight. Understanding your body type and what is considered most flattering on your body type from a visual balance perspective can help inform your shopping. Stay tuned for more information on the five main body types and wardrobe recommendations for each.
To feel your best, your clothes must...
- Reflect your personal style - For example, one of the wardrobe basics on our list is a white T-shirt. White t-shirts come in all types of fabrics, necklines and shirt and sleeve lengths. I have a library of different white t-shirts that I can wear for different reasons and occasions. What do you want your white T-shirt to say about you today? As an example of a statement piece, I have a fuchsia belted wool coat that I especially love to wear on a dreary winter day. It’s a total pick me up on an otherwise gloomy day and also a reflection of my personal style since I love bright bold colors.
- Be comfortable – Yes, it’s possible to look chic and feel like you’re wearing pajamas. We have recommendations for you on how best to achieve that. When your clothes aren’t comfortable, it’s a distraction that often translates to your body language and how you comport yourself. Don’t be fooled into buying clothes that look great on you but that are uncomfortable for whatever reason. You may wear them once or twice but they will never be items that you love to reach for over and over again and in the end are a poor investment.
Hi, I'm Roxanne!
Style Coach and Educator/ 12 Season Color Analyst
My goal with The Fashioneaseta is to help busy working women create a sense of ease in how they dress so that they look and feel their best while also saving time and money in the process. Let me help you create a wardrobe that you love of stylish, comfortable, multi-functional pieces that are a true reflection of you.
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