Self Styled

As of this last weekend, I was almost finished with my closet re-org, but there was one last task that was mentioned in the book "Nothing to Wear?: A Five-Step Cure for the Common Closet" that I had not completed. The task was to create outfits from your clothes (including jewelry, shoes, scarves, gloves, etc) and then photograph them. The idea is that this will help you to get ready, because you will just have to choose from outfits that you've already come up with, instead of staring at your closet and willing a stylist to pop out like a genie and dress you. (They also suggest printing the photos and putting them in a recipe box, but I haven't done that yet...)

I was particularly excited to embark on this photo montage, because it reminded me of that section in InStyle where they show the outfits all laid out for different occasions (like "weekend at the Hamptons" or "Afternoon Wedding") and then they list the designer and price of each item.

My project turned out to be fun, but more labor intensive that I anticipated. I had to keep jumping up onto a chair to get up high enough to take pictures of outfits that I had laid out on the floor. I also worked up a sweat lugging coats and shoes out of the coat closet and to the bedroom floor for the "fashion spread".

In the end, I created about twenty winter work outfits, such as this one:


And this one:


Next, I will tackle winter going out outfits and then spring/summer work outfits (which means capris! Yay!).

God, it's hard being this anal retentive, but getting dressed this morning was a snap.

And P.S. None of my work outfits incorporate handbags because I take a work bag to work. (Ok, it's an Eddie Bauer backpack, but I have a lot of crap to haul around...so cut me some slack.)