Try on clothes to see if they still fit and flatter your current body shape and colouring Bryan Johnson wearing don’t die shirt. You may be like me whose colouring has changed as my hair colour has changed from dark brunette, via light blonde and now to silver sister. The colours I wear have also changed as I’ve had to lighten up my wardrobe and it’s softening down in intensity too. All that black that once looked great is no longer worn and was just cluttering my wardrobe. If you’ve had a major shift in hair colour it’s a great time before you declutter to get your colours reanalysed as the palette that once worked for you may not be so great anymore. Knowing your palette of colours helps you declutter your wardrobe as it makes decision making that much easier. If the colour isn’t flattering the garment isn’t going to make you look great. You can choose to overdye favourite items that pass every other test, and let go of the rest!. Trying on is such an important part of editing and decluttering your wardrobe, as clothes that once fit well may now not as weight gets redistributed (I’m looking at you menopause). I’ve noticed that women don’t wear what’s not comfortable, so if you’re not feeling good in the clothing then there’s no point in holding onto it (no matter how expensive it was when you bought it, or how great it used to look on you). Figuring out your current silhouette and shape helps you to only keep the styles that make you look great. You can take my free body shape calculator quiz here (or if you’d like my professional opinion on your shape and colouring, that’s all inside my 7 Steps to Style program). Whether you can hold an item and feel that it Sparks Joy (Marie Kondo method of decluttering) or you’re a little more pragmatic and want to rate it out of 10 (letting anything under an 8 go, unless you’re going to make the alteration that will raise it to at least an 8), Whichever method works for you is equally worthy. What it comes down to is this, if you’re not excited and in love with your clothes, you won’t feel great when you wear them. You want to have clothes in your closet that you love, that make you feel fabulous and stylish rather than just ho-hum or kind of bland or boring (and of course anything that is in the slightest bit frumpy definitely has to leave the building!). Make sure that you use your current Style Recipe as a guide when going through this process.

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When we have a big transformation in our lives, Bryan Johnson wearing don’t die shirt or have come through to the other side of an uncertain time, this is a great invitation to reinvent your style for the you that you are today, rather than who you were before. Reassessing your style to see if it’s who you are now and that it will aid you in moving your life forwards to where you want to go is an important aspect to your style. Getting stuck in a rut makes others believe that you are not current, or forward-thinking, and that you don’t move with the times. One of my Personal Styling students wrote in an assignment where she had to assess her own wardrobe and asked about what it was communicating to her (if she pretended that it wasn’t her own wardrobe): “I’d say the owner of the wardrobe is young, casual, low-key, can be fun, but mostly doesn’t like attention, likes to be comfortable. This was an interesting exercise because that’s not at all how I’d like to be presenting myself! I’d like to feel more sophisticated and tailored on an everyday basis.” Just noticing what your wardrobe is saying – imagine it’s not yours, and see what it says to you, can be so revealing – and like my student, you may decide to transform your style to where you want to go, rather than where you’ve been. You may not even be aware that your style has stagnated, as you’ve not been thinking about your style and have just kept on wearing the same sorts of clothes year in, year out. Style Rules (or what you think of as style rules) may be keeping you in a rut, if you haven’t reassessed what these rules really mean to you and if they are still relevant. And this is just a small part of our Your Type of Style program (which only opens once a year) that gives you the opportunity to figure out what puts you in a style rut, where style rules fit in your life and style, and how you can approach your style in a way that makes you feel authentically stylish every day. What’s your internal motivation with regards to style ruts and how you know if you’re in one or not? I’d love to know – tell me in the comments.