Amaranth
6-22-11, 1:18pm
Periodically a group of friends sponsors the Six Items or Less clothing challenge. The idea is to choose 6 very versatile items and wear some combination of them for a month. The 6 items are for regular daily wear and don't include exercise clothes, swimsuit, pjs, work uniforms, jackets/coats, or accessories.
Some of the previous participants have chosen several of their items to be of black fabric to make the mixing and matching easier. This works better on people of Winter coloring in terms of going with their natural coloring. People of other Color Seasons could choose a similarly flexible neutral out of their color pallette such as navy, gray, or brown.
I'd like to participate in a future round of the challenge, and have been having a hard time figuring out what the most useful items would be. Also I'd like to be a bit in the direction of simple, classic, and interesting rather than, simple, dull, and boring.>8)
One aspect of this challenge that I am already good at is choosing good quality clothes that hold up to many washings. However I'd still welcome things to choose or avoid related to how well they hold up. A number of the participants have been surprised to learn that many of their clothes survived so few wearings that they were nearly in the disposable category. Some people wound up mending items several times a week or being reduced to 5 or 4 items when something became unmendable. Others wound up swapping in other items to make it through the challenge in order to be professional at work, yet feeling like they were compromising following the challenge. To me this seemed like a reasonable compromise as it allowed them to continue in the spirit of the challenge while still learning about the quality of various brands and styles of clothing.
What would your choose for your 6?
Some of the previous participants have chosen several of their items to be of black fabric to make the mixing and matching easier. This works better on people of Winter coloring in terms of going with their natural coloring. People of other Color Seasons could choose a similarly flexible neutral out of their color pallette such as navy, gray, or brown.
I'd like to participate in a future round of the challenge, and have been having a hard time figuring out what the most useful items would be. Also I'd like to be a bit in the direction of simple, classic, and interesting rather than, simple, dull, and boring.>8)
One aspect of this challenge that I am already good at is choosing good quality clothes that hold up to many washings. However I'd still welcome things to choose or avoid related to how well they hold up. A number of the participants have been surprised to learn that many of their clothes survived so few wearings that they were nearly in the disposable category. Some people wound up mending items several times a week or being reduced to 5 or 4 items when something became unmendable. Others wound up swapping in other items to make it through the challenge in order to be professional at work, yet feeling like they were compromising following the challenge. To me this seemed like a reasonable compromise as it allowed them to continue in the spirit of the challenge while still learning about the quality of various brands and styles of clothing.
What would your choose for your 6?