Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Polka Dot Scarf

All right, so these past few days I have really gotten into Buffy. I love it, it's amazing, especially starting from season two. I've been watching it a lot. My eyeballs are pretty tired. But how come it seems like everything exciting on TV happens in high school? Actually if I think about it, a lot of my best and worst memories are from high school.

Marc Jacobs scarf (similar and less $$ here)
Celine bag (I love this one!)
Banana Republic shoes (in a kitten heel here, Manolos here)

I'd always admired this Marc Jacobs giant cashmere dotted scarf after seeing it on Wendy, and couldn't resist the black and cream version which I wore yesterday. I brought it with me when we went to Thailand and it was actually super useful since my shorts and tank tops there were a little too "woman of the night" for some of the temples we visited. I tied it as a sarong (some places wanted you covered to your knees) and used it as a wrap in others (where shoulders should be covered). Then on our flight home, I used it as a little blanket! The uses are endless. 

Monday, February 27, 2012

A Well Balanced Closet

This weekend I resolved to clean out my closet and wow, what a task. I'm not a minimalist by any means but seeing a room full of items that I spent time and money on that are never used just serves to make me depressed and a little disappointed in myself. Why did I accumulate all this stuff that I never use and no longer care about?

To get some inspiration I flipped through a few of my favorite fashion books and saw one of my favorite Nina Garcia quotes (well actually it's her quoting AndrĂ©e Putman) in The Little Black Book of Style. I was all set to scan it for you when I realized that I had already written about it earlier (one of my first posts!) 


I agree with this quote wholeheartedly and packed up and donated three bags of items already this weekend and am vowing to be as ruthless in culling more. It drives me crazy that I can't see all the items I want to wear and it's embarrassing that for a long time my solution was that one day, I'd just get a bigger closet! Plus, I'm still lacking so many items that I'd like to have and wear time and time again, while I buy random substitutes that fail to fill that closet "hole".

I still enjoy a good healthy shop-a-thon so this is definitely not a vow to 100% abstain, but rather to be more thoughtful and conscientious. There are three rules that I am going to follow going forward when adding an item to my closet: I must love it, it must have a place in my lifestyle, and it has to fit. The end.

How do you all keep a well balanced closet? What are the mantras you follow, and are you ever weak? Thoughts? 
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