Surprise Find

The weather report said it would rain today. So we decided to skip our Sunday walk for this week (we've skipped many weeks though) and go straight for Kinokuniya. Except that, I'll get distracted by the merchandise in the stores and detour.

A random pick through the bargain bins found me a maxi dress. I've been wanting one since one year ago when it was the rage. Except I never found one that I liked enough or fits. Strangely, the S size maxi dresses at Zara are too big, and the Asian brands are inevitably too short. So I was totally chuffed when I found this dress with the perfect floor-skimming length, and not merely ankle-grazing.

I love the classic summery white too; and the price that proximates This Fashion's. I love recession time Club 21 sales. :)

New Addition to the Wardrobe

I bought a pair of jeans today. I've been wanting another pair for a while because the pair of G-Star is somewhat casual and the colour fading, while the black pair is also fast fading due to frequent wear. And I can't fit into the rest which are still sitting in the back of the closet for whatever reason.

Here's the photos of the jeans taken with the built-in camera of my notebook:

I'm glad I didn't have the heart to plonk down more than 300 bucks for another pair of G-Star. While I love love love the pair I have now because it's so comfortable and it's wearing up so well despite having it for some 4 years, the current price is too much for me. I bought the pair of jeans in the pix above at The Salvation Army for all of $20! Granted, it's a teeny weeny short (I know you can't see it here), but if and when I decide I can't stand the length, I can always have it altered to capris. Now all I need is a studded belt to wear it with.

Simplifying the Wardrobe

On Sat, I dropped by the Salvation Army to donate a bag of clothes. It's a relief to finally get them out of the wardrobe, so I don't have to face a closet full of clothes and wonder about what to wear. After all, some of these stuff never really worked in my wardrobe. I'ld put the item on, try it out with other stuff but they don't work somehow. And there it goes back into the wardrobe again. Some just were not me to begin with.

I guess it is part of the experimentation to find out what suits oneself, although I'm not sure I found it yet. It is strange though, that this uncluttering process was started in part from reading a fashion forum. But the advice to pare down the number of items one buys each season/year does bring into focus what you really want, rather than buying everything you fancy in sight. I'm glad to say that it stops me from buying too much. I have a tendency to buy a lot of similar stuff. This year alone, I bought several dresses. Previously, it was spaghetti-strapped tops. But I realised I tend to wear some items over and over, but some not at all after a couple of times.

Since I hardly/don't use them, I figured that if I don't keep them, I don't have to maintain them, I would have more space to organize the things I want, and maybe someone else would find a use for them. Only problem was, I think I wasn't ruthless enough in weeding out my closet the last time. Oh well, there will always be round two. But I think the key is really in not putting in stuff that won't stay.

I want to be a kid,

if it means I can wear simple, pretty clothes again,

like this random fold skirt,

or one-button dress,

or Cranston blouse?

Where can I find such simple, comfy clothes like that for adults? Clothes that do not scream "I'm woman, look at me". Sure, some of these designers do make clothes for adult. But it seems like they can never keep enough stock. Not to mention that I would really prefer to see and try my clothes on before buying.