The Summer of Wearing It All
Tuesday, July 09, 2019I signed up to Slow Fashion Season last month, it's a pledge to avoid purchasing any new items for the summer, to encourage shopping your wardrobe, shopping secondhand, and making do and mending.
I knew it'd be easy for me to do as I buy brand new items so infrequently these days. It's for this reason that I decided to make it more of a challenge for myself and take the 'shop your wardrobe' idea to it's extreme. I've abandoned my usual capsule wardrobe and plan to wear a different outfit everyday if I have enough clothes, which I suspect I do.
It feels a lot like my Wearing It All challenge of 2011, remember that? I wore all of the clothing items I owned and wasn't allowed to wear anything twice. I still have a handful of those clothes in my wardrobe. This challenge is a little different though as I will allow myself to wear items more than once, as long as it's in a different outfit.
It's a good time of year to do this as I have more summer clothes than anything else, so as long as the weather behaves I'll be able to wear a good portion of them. I'm actually rather enjoying it. I'm rediscovering things that I haven't worn in a while, and finding new outfit combinations by teaming new-to-me purchases with old favourites, and long forgotten items.
Here are the first outfits of the challenge.
Do you think you could avoid buying new clothes for three months?
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Love this idea! I've bought precisely three items of clothing this year (5 if you count a pair of shoes and a hat) so I could definitely go three months without buying any.
ReplyDeleteThe dress with the blue flowers is very pretty.
Three? That's impressive, I could do with taking a leaf out of your book! Well done.
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What a great idea, Hazel. I'm sure you'll surprise yourself with the combinations you'll come up with. I'd do the same, but I have enough stuff for many, many Summers. Should do a bit of decluttering really.xxx
ReplyDeleteI do like a bit of a wardrobe challenge. Yesterday I wore a jumper that I'd tucked away for autumn with a summer maxi skirt, which is a combination I'd didn't think I'd try, thanks to the weather not doing what the weather should be doing.
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I love uncovering hidden gems! Like you, my wardrobe is mostly summery stuff and I couldn't be happier inventing new combinations of old stuff when the sun is shining. xxx
ReplyDeleteI've found so many things that have been long forgotten!
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What a great idea. I could definitely go without buying clothes for a three month period, I hate clothes shopping so I regularly go three months without buying any clothes. Saying that, I've just bought myself a couple of new bras.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the last time I didn't buy anything over the course of a month. I find charity shops are just too tempting!
DeleteBra shopping is the worst, I avoid it at all costs!
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I signed up for this too! I've managed to stick to it so far although I did buy a pair of linen shorts the last day before the challenge started from Lidl (they were a really nice length!) and wished I'd picked up their floral pair! Ah well!
ReplyDeleteLove your outfits so far.. That long skirt is really pretty- the grey shades one!
I meant to say in my last comment that we saw the Half Boy exhibition at Snape Maltings which is by Chris's old friend's husband- it was really interesting but very curious in places (like a self portrait in the nude which I wasn't really enjoying too much!)
Shorts at a nice length are hard to find. It's the first time I've worn the grey shades skirt (in my mind I called it my hippy skirt), I bought it back in November last year so it's nice to finally get it out.
DeleteI'll take a look at the Half Boy exhibition when I'm there.
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