For those people, a style analysis would be a waste of money.īut if you're like me, you don't have the time or patience for all of that. And some people really enjoy spending hours trying on clothes. Some people really enjoy changing their look every season. For example, I'm on my third pair of these sandals: Many of the items in my current wardrobe are several years old when I find an Ethereal Natural garment, I keep it until it wears out, because it works for me every time I put it on. In fact, I rarely shop for clothes these days. And that's more than I've spent on any shopping trip for myself in the years since then. That's a fraction of what I spent on the wardrobe that was all wrong for me. I was able to return, resell, repurpose, or gift most of the brand-new clothes, thank goodness. (You don't put Mother Earth in a suit, right?) In Dramatic and Classic lines, by contrast, my face looked a bit coarse and a bit weird.

They made my somewhat otherworldly and somewhat rough-hewn features read as noble and magical. Yet my style analysis revealed that Ethereal and Natural garments, which are completely unstructured, were actually more dignified for me. I think on some level I believed that the dignity of the clothes would automatically elevate the impression I made. I had chosen mostly Classic and/or Dramatic pieces - very stiff, structured, sharp-edged items. The reason for that, as you may have guessed, is that I had a style analysis not long after that shopping trip, and discovered that most of the expensive shopping-trip clothes were wrong for me. Yet I don't own any of those clothes anymore. I was right about that last idea, I think it makes sense to spend money on clothes you know you'll be wearing for years. It's not unreasonable for me to make a financial investment in my wardrobe. I'm a grown-up and a professional, I told myself.

I felt unable to make myself look beautiful, and I knew I was wasting money. I thought if I spent some serious money on really nice clothes, I'd feel and look different. In the years prior to that shopping trip, I had bought and thrown away a lot of thrift-store clothes. And I had calculated that I would be able to pay off the balance plus interest over the next 12 months. It had been years since I'd bought myself actual new clothes. This was a carefully considered decision. Almost a decade ago, just before the beginning of the new school year (I teach, as many of you know), I went to the mall with my credit card and spent several hundred dollars on new clothes.

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