Your Life Palette
Color Palettes
Lloyd Boston recommends a concept he terms “identify your life palette”, that is, basing your wardrobe on the colors you just naturally love. If you aren’t certain about yours, you may find inspiration at wear palettes, a blog with a stunningly simple premise: taking The Sartorialist’s photos and extrapolating the color palettes.
I recommend drawing your life palette from your personal coloring, personality, and lifestyle. A suggestion: go to wear palettes and click on your eye color in the right sidebar. That will bring up all the color palettes containing your eye color. If you don’t find one that works for you, search your hemoglobin color; that is, your best red (hue, tint or shade).
If you live in New York or work in theatre, click on black. he hee.
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Cover Your Basics
At one time or another, most of us encounter a wardrobe crisis: a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear. Perhaps you’ve changed sizes or lifestyles. Or perhaps you haven’t; perhaps you have simply stayed the same size and worn the same things until your everyday clothes have all worn out, leaving you with a closet full of decades-old L.B.D.s and nothing to wear. No matter how we get there, with a day dedicated to shopping and $100, most of us can be on the road to Wardrobe Recovery.
Your wardrobe needs variety; you can add that later. Your first priority is to be able to get dressed.
First decide what you want to wear every day: a business suit? shorts and tee shirt? khakis and a button-down? Think next about where you are most likely to find those needed items for a reasonable price. Then go buy some. Do not allow yourself to be distracted by whatever is easy for you; buy what you need.
If your lifestyle is mostly leisure, try to get two pairs of jeans and three of your favorite tee shirts (nice-fitting solid or print tees, not sloppy message tees). Starting with $100, if you go to Old Navy or JCPenney or somewhere similar, you should have money left over for something fun. Pictured pieces available today at Old Navy’s online store for a total of less than $50, click on picture to go to the website.













