You may remember my mentioning cleaning out your closet as Life Hack #1 in January’s blog, Lani’s 5 Favorite Life Hacks. Considering the amount of time we are all spending at home these days, I thought it might be time to revisit the idea in more detail. Having an edited, organized closet, and maintaining it every season, will save you an unimaginable amount of time.
This is the time of year for New Year’s resolutions, or at the very least, consideration of how we would like to make ourselves better next year. This being a shopping and wardrobe blog, we are going to tackle the part of your life we can help you control, your wardrobe. I’ve been getting emails with inquiries like, “I’m a working mom looking to refresh my wardrobe this year,” for a week and it isn’t even New Year’s Eve yet!
What did I do with my Memorial Day weekend? In addition to multiple pool outings with the kids and quality time with family and friends, I completely reorganized my closet while switching it over for the season. Usually my closet is a well-oiled machine which only requires pulling out the past season and putting in the new, moving things around as necessary. This time I knew my closet needed a major overhaul. Now that my kids are 5 and 7, I am back to wearing more “real” clothes (i.e. dry-clean-only investment pieces). I was frustrated with my closet all winter, …
Raise your hand if you’re afraid of color! If you are, it’s okay. A lot of people are not sure how to incorporate color into their wardrobes. Lani and Kyle have several clients who, prior to hiring RLS, pretty much only dressed in black. Color makes a statement, but you want to be sure you are making the right statement. Color affects your appearance in many ways. I studied the visual arts in college and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the principles of color theory I learned in my classes are very similar to those of the fashion world. …
Although I have plenty of clothes I love (and, therefore, plenty to wear), I have been frustrated of late with how crowded my closet has become. I should also mention that I took great advantage of the January sales, which probably did not help matters. And then I read Courtney Carver‘s “10 Tiny Steps to Take Towards Your Tiny Wardrobe,” and I was like, “I must do something!” (Scroll down to read the steps and click through for the details on her website.) Yep, it was time to purge the personal stylist’s closet. So who does the stylist ask for …