Cleaning out your closet is something you should do once every 6 months. Most of you out there hold onto things for far too long for the wrong reasons. Editing your closet, even if it means moving things to storage, helps you remember what you have and finding new ways of wearing it.
Sometimes I find if I just re-arrange things, new outfits appear.
Cleaning out my closet helps me sleep at night, something about putting things in there place nice and neat, lowers my stress level and gives me a sense of accomplishment. That may have been an over share.
What worries me about your comment Chris, is that it essentially puts my job/career at risk. Not to say I haven't already considered how valued I will be in the upcoming years but I like to think that even though people don't want to shop, they still want to look. I've already altered the price points of my pages-but I'm not willing to throw in the towel just because fashion isn't a necessity.
I've been in this situation before, I remember my Junior year at design school was when 9/11 happened. I felt like such an ass going into my dress making classes, how do you find value in something so meaningless at the time? I considered dropping out and switching careers when I received a letter from my Grandmother in the mail, a lovely handwritten note reminding me that in the most dire of times artists are the ones that inspire, the world needs to see beauty so you must keep creating. I don't design clothing anymore but I do put them in my magazine and I hope that at the very least it serves as some sort of escapism.
A common thread among several of your more recent posts: the role of fashion in the public consciousness. What are your thoughts on this in light of Palin's remarks disparaging the $150,000 wardrobe and proclaiming a return to her "real" (i.e., Walmart Mom) clothes? Just curious.
Posted by: Kelley Zunkel | October 28, 2008 at 01:28 PM