Trying to cut back on your shopping habit and/or $$$?

Want to reduce your consumption and/or spending on clothes, but you’re losing the battle because of your love of fashion? These three mistakes are probably making it harder:

⁃ You don’t know your best colours or ‘your style’ so you follow every trend.

⁃ You haven’t identified the foundational and accessories ‘gaps’ in your wardrobe.

⁃ You don’t have an alterations wizard you can trust.

Solving these three things will make your wardrobe less frustrating, cluttered, and more versatile. Your shopping will become more focused and intentional. It will also make it easier to shop thrift/pre-loved and use your creativity (and perhaps someone else's needle skills) to make it work like you can see in your head!

These are just some of the problems I help clients solve. And this is how I used those three bits of knowledge in my own wardrobe, plus a thrift outing and some alterations:

• I love, and know I suit clear bright colours, and style-wise sit in a feminine place with a structural and elegant edge.

• I had a number identified ‘gaps’ in my wardrobe. To name a couple:

⁃ a bright trousers suit/co-ord

⁃ trousers I could wear smart and casual (helping travel packing)

⁃ trousers other than jeans to go with this very ‘grey-toned’ navy blazer

⁃ an inexpensive experiment with neon

Knowing those things, I was confident that these two $10 thrift purchases, plus $50 on alterations (cutting down a dress to be a top), earnt their place in my wardrobe.

I am also confident the price per wear will be cents before I know it!

Items both from The Art of Fashion 2025 @dressforsuccessnswandact sale:

Pants - $10 Zara (M)

Top (mini-dress cut down) $10 + $50 Jigsaw (10)