Bored with your Closet? Try this move.

I don't know about you... but the minute I learned that ALL SHOPPING WAS OFF THE TABLE for the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, my closet all of a sudden started to feel choked. Boring. Depressing. 

I have to wear THIS STUFF for forever?? No thrifting? No swapping? No shopping?

Listen gals, they don't say that "necessity is the mother of invention" for nothing. 

We think that our closets are an abyss of boring has-beens, but I'll tell you what, opportunity abounds, when we've got the guts and the gumption (AND NO OTHER CHOICE BUT) to get creative. 

I just read this quote, straight outta the mouth of one of my Style Sisters:

"The things I already have in my closet aren’t necessarily “boring,” they just need a little help from other things in my closet and/or some fun accessories to show my true personality."

BaBAM. There it is. Sometimes we just need "a little help from our friends". 

Just yesterday I got dressed in a closet-combo I'd never worn before... but even though it was a new combo, something was missing.  So do you know what I did? I messed around with all kinds of different tucking and knotting, twisting and tying, and guess what?  I discovered a BRAND NEW MOVE. Something I'd NEVER done before. 

You guys, I tucked one side of my shirt into my pants.

It may not SEEM like much. But I’ll tell you what. That ONE. SIMPLE. MOVE. changed everything.

And all of a sudden, I felt scrappy, messy (in a good way), disrupt-y, creative, and... mysterious. 

Mysterious because if anybody had seen me, they probably would’ve thought to themselves... “I wonder if she did that move on purpose? Or if maybe her shirt accidentally got tucked into her pants after going to the bathroom.”

THEY’LL NEVER KNOW!

And gals, I'm not the only one inventing new moves, and making the MOST out of what I already have in my closet.  I've got a gaggle of Style Sisters in session RIGHT NOW who are reinventing their closets one creative, brave, confident, rule-breaking muscle at a time. 

"Being brave has opened up a whole new wardrobe possibility for work, and for feeling more authentically myself." 

"My boring closet is actually less boring if I look at it closely and with creativity!"

"Many things in my closet I've had for years because I'm confident in what I love. I just haven't always been confident enough to wear some pieces and some combos."

Instead of sitting home, stressing about all the lock-down orders being dropped around the globe, how about we spend some time cultivating COURAGE, CONFIDENCE + CREATIVITY instead.  

Our primary job right now is to follow the rules being laid out by our government officials (#flattenthecurve), and to take care of ourselves/our families. We gotta breathe. We gotta eat. We gotta move. 

We're in this for the long haul, so we gotta keep our shit together, the best we can. Instead of lamenting all that we can't do, and all that we don't have, let's focus on what we CAN DO and what we DO HAVE! 

Instead of feeling sad you can’t go shopping, get excited about turning your closet into your own STYLE LABORATORY. 

Go to your closet, and see what you can come up with. Try new combos. Experiment with tucks, and knots and the ole' SSS Rosie Rosette.  Try denim on denim for the first time.  Get the scissors out, and cut the sleeves off a too-small denim jacket.  Go bananas!  

Just when I think my closet is done - dead - dried up, I come up with SOMETHING that reminds me that life is FULL of hidden treasures... if we just know how to look for 'em. 

Stay safe, friends!

xo Stasia