Wearing It All Update

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

I finished my Wearing It All Summer 2020 challenge yesterday. I've shared weeks 1, and 2 and 3, and weeks 4 - 6, so here are weeks 7 - 9.


These are the final few weeks of August, turning into September. Week 7 was a week of dresses. The final three were ones I had in the pile of stuff waiting to be listed on ebay, but I tried them all on first before doing so. I'm keeping the white one, it's about 5 years old and this is only the second time I've worn it! But I love it so it's staying (this could be my favourite outfit of the summer). The navy dress with what looks like a dolka dot pattern (it's actually raindrops) has a peter pan collar and a narrow band of pin tucks up the front, it's lovely. I picked it up at a clothes swap years ago but this is it's first wear. I think it's a little too short though so I won't be keeping it.

The burgundy polka dot dress hasn't been worn before either, I purchased it in 2016 and have no excuse for not wearing it, it's been saved from ebay... for now...

The only dress I'm not keen on out of these is the floral midi dress, which is a shame as I purchased this online at the beginning of lockdown, and I loved it when it arrived. I'm going to try it with different shoes, possibly add some accessories but if that doesn't work it'll go on ebay.


During Week 8 I actually went out! (you can tell by the wearing of a face mask). The first instance was just to the supermarket to pick up a few provisions. Day 5 was a photo an hour and a trip to the seaside for art galleries, and tea and cake.

Many tops worn over this week are rarely worn, the pink v neck top and black dress are items usually worn at Latitude (easy to wear and do not crease), but the blue dress is a new-to-me purchase, picked up from a charity shop on my way home from Aldeburgh the day before.

At this point I was starting to run low on clothes that hadn't been worn for the challenge that I could wear, I needed more sunny days so I could finish wearing all my summer tops and shorts but that wasn't to be...


Week 9, the weather was less than ideal and definitely not shorts weather. I took the opportunity to wear my recently purchased preloved stripe midi skirt again, which has knocked my green skirt off it's top spot, and it was lovely to wear my navy jumpsuit again.

I'm thinking the green dress is destined for ebay, it's pretty but rarely gets picked over my other dresses and I don't have the room to keep them all. The point of this challenge was to purge my wardrobe and it's worked to a certain extent, but I still have items I'm dithering about. Even though I want to wear all my clothing items as much as possible (ideally 30 times or more), if  something doesn't work I'm not going to wear it, so there is no point in keeping it.

I'll post the final update in a few days. In the meantime I've turned my attention to what to do next...

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8 comments

  1. I think the burgundy polka dot dress on week 7 is lovely, I'm glad it's been saved from Ebay. I think this challenge has made you quite strict with yourself over clothes, which I suppose is the point after all.

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    1. Now if I could just find a way to be strict with my spending too!
      xx

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  2. I probably keep repeating myself but every time I see one of your wearing-it-all posts, I am reminded of the fact that a) I'd need a Summer that lasts 10 times longer to wear it all and b) I need to do a good wardrobe purge. I often add things to the charity shop bag, but the problem is that none of our local shops is accepting donations right now, so I end up taking things out again :-) And still I keep buying things! The burgundy polka dot dress is absolutely gorgeous and it looks fab on you, so I'm glad you're keeping it - for now. Your new to you blue dress is gorgeous too, and I can see why your striped midi skirt has knocked your green one off its top spot! xxx

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    1. I have been known to take items out of the charity bag too. Luckily our local charity shop is taking a limited number of donations each day, so as long as I'm there when they open at 10am, I'm able to get rid of things quite quickly.
      You have so many wonderful dresses I'm not sure how you'd choose what would stay and what should go!
      xx

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  3. You look gorgeous in all the dresses from the first week but I especially love the burgundy one so I'm pleased it's been rescued for now!

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    1. Thank you. The burgundy dress seems to be popular.
      xx

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  4. Such a lovely lot of dress wearing! I love the third one of week 7. Bare legs are sadly not an option from now on, it's horrible out there. I bought a lovely autumnal dress but it looks downright dreadful on me, so sad as it looked so lovely on the hanger! xx

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    1. That particular dress is lovely to wear, no need to worry about bloat in that one - winner!
      I miss the sun and bare legs already. Pulling on socks everyday is depressing.
      What a shame your dress didn't suit, it's so disappointing when that happens :(
      xx

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