Wardrobe Essentials
A Classic Wardrobe

A guide for building Basic Wardrobe Essentials for the elegant woman. How to build a wardrobe that works.

The best dressed women are often those who devote the most thought into what they wear, how they wear it and the process of getting dressed. That does not mean they they spent the most money nor time getting dressed.

Planning is essential to an elegant woman's wardrobe. A wardrobe that works is a wardrobe that has been well thought out. The elegant woman also maintains her wardrobe. She maintains her clothes and does an edit every three to six months.

How does she maintain her wardrobe?

She routinely bleaches her clothes to ensure the whitest of whites, get buttons and loose zips repaired, shoes re-soled and polished, her jewelry cleaned.

What is a Wardrobe edit?

It a de-cluttering of her collection. It consists of giving away clothes that does not fit, that she no longer loves or has too many of. (See Wardrobe Refashioning Step One)

Shopping Well

She knows her boutiques, designers, brands and fabrics well. Most important, she knows herself well. She knows what is her style and what she looks good in.

She will never buy something that isn't her. She does not buy clothes she thinks will impress others.

Despite her love for designers, she knows that the most important person in fashion is herself. She learns to have a eye for good clothes, no matter where she shops. She prioritizes good quality and fit over high fashion trends.

A Well-Dressed & Appropriate Wardrobe

Because an elegant woman seeks understanding first, then planning, she always has enough good quality clothes that enable her to be well dressed.

She is appropriate, you'll never find inappropriate clothes in her wardrobe. She dresses according to the occasion. She is never over dressed or under dressed.

She is one that does not have too much. She does not have too many shoes, nor too many of the similar items. She understands that she has to keep her collection of clothes in a tight quantity in order for her to remain well-dressed within a reasonable amount of time and enables her to be punctual.

She understands her lifestyle and the kind of events she is involved in, tailoring her wardrobe to her lifestyle.

Whenever there is a change in seasons, or when there is a change in lifestyle (a baby, a new job etc) she re-evaluates her wardrobe, takes an inventory to prepare for the new season.

Good Dressing Quotes

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich but not gaudy, for the apparel oft proclaims the man. - Shakespeare

Clothing identifies who you are in your world. If you met someone who was dressed and groomed in such a manner that you could not relate to them, you would never know if the person had a heart of gold or not. - Ginie Sayles

Change your appearance and change what you do with your time - and your life will change. You are more in control than you think. - unknown.

Want A Wardrobe Refashioning Make Over?

Do you desire the wardrobe of a well-dressed, elegant woman too? Check out elegantwoman.org's Wardrobe Refashioning page. It shows you the step-by-step process of a wardrobe overhaul and teaches you how to build an elegant basic wardrobe. A wardrobe that works!

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