I got sick of having a too-full clothes rack and decided -in the spur of the moment, as usual!- to take apart the clothes that I rarely/never wear . The problem is that these clothes are now permanently squatting the chair next to the clothes rack, forming The Pile.
It’s kind of imposing, really, because it’s a daily reminder of the sorting-out that I need (and without fail, avoid every day) to do. I’m not the type of person that can bear to part with clothes, especially clothes that I like but cannot bring myself to wear on a regular basis (for practical reasons, because I don’t like them on my body at the moment, because they’re too revealing/flashy for me…). And so for the time being, I’m in the process of trying to incorporate at least one item from The Pile in my look every day, and hopefully by the end I’ll face reality -which clothes are wearable, which clothes I need to part with- but also get to be a little more daring in my day-to-day dressing.
And
to monitor my progress just for the sake of it, I will be documenting my outfits (with or without Pile items)!
I noticed that I wasn’t wearing my grey pencil miniskirt from H&M, even though it is relatively new. I paired it with my new khaki Zara shirt (and a thin sweater underneath- it is the winter after all, and I tend to get cold even indoors these days!), wedge ankle boots from H&M and opaque black tights (the general rule of thumb for tights is the shorter the skirt, the thicker the tights). I was really happy with how I looked, but this skirt, for me, is very limiting -although not obscenely short-: it rides up when you sit down, forces you to keep your legs crossed and makes biking without completely losing face impossible (I biked to the shops wearing it- let’s just say it was a good thing I was wearing a long coat! ^^)
Added a colourful scarf and nonchalantly draped my coat around my shoulders to take out my trash- it doesn’t get any more glamourous than that!
