Setting Style Goals for the New Year

Making personal style a personal goal is not a frivolous pursuit. Style goals will not only streamline your closet helping you to shop and dress with intention, but will also help you avoid random incompatible purchases.

Dee’s Style Goals – edgy, adventurous, cool

The laid-back, vintage-y boho look I loved for many years has lost its appeal to me. Instead, I am moving in more of a rocker-chic direction. I have been slowly replacing flowy, paisley printed items with edgy, modern structured pieces that will work for both my professional, personal, (and hockey-mom) life.

 

Here is what I am working on for 2017:

• Cull any items I have not worn in the last year
• Continue to replace worn out urban-hippy pieces with tough(er), modern pieces especially completer pieces
• Experiment more with juxtaposition (Eg. pairing masculine inspired pieces with feminine, dressy with casual)
• Play with proportions and textures
• Create new and interesting combinations with layering
• Look for and purchase pants that are in between a dress pant and jeans
• Perfect the DIY manicure and wear nail polish more often
• Record outfits using the calendar in Stylebook

 

Mara’s Style Goals – classic, preppy, refined

 

• Use my clothing budget to invest in timeless, high quality pieces to wear for years to come

• Cultivate a wardrobe of pieces I love and eliminate guilt from my closet
  • This year I want to end the obligation I feel to wear pieces I don’t really like but spent “good money†on. Certainly this encourages me to make my purchasing decisions more carefully (always plan ahead, use a shopping list, and don’t buy just because it is on sale).

• Build a casual wardrobe that is mix-and-match and highly functional
  • Buying office-ready clothes is simple and inspiring to me. Conversely, I have a harder time cultivating my weekend/evening attire, even though I use some of my work wear pieces with my jeans. Ideally, I want a casual wardrobe that has some great pieces I love to wear. Also, I would like my weekend wear to represent my classic-with-a-twist style.

• Aim to add more dresses to my wardrobe
  • The year-round wearability and simplicity of dresses is something I appreciate and I would like a few more options to wear on a weekly basis.

 

 

 

 

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