work your wardrobe: #4 – set the financial investment

This financial strategy is appropriate for the Canada and United States economies. The suggested annual clothing investment for all clothing items (including inner wear, outerwear, and accessories) is 5 – 10% of the gross annual salary, or 5 – 10% of the desired gross annual salary. If your lifestyle is predominantly: Your investment would be: [...]

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work your wordrobe: #3 – organize the closet

Create Efficient Space Whether your closet is walk-in or reach-in, make use of every inch:  from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall.  Ensure you have sufficient hanging rods, shelves, hooks, etc.  If your closet was not built-in, you can use hanging canvas shelves, hanging pockets, portable clear organizing drawers, baskets, sturdy wardrobe boxes, [...]

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work your wardrobe: #2 – develop modules

Create maximum efficiency in your wardrobe, and have something for every occasion. After your closet inventory and purge, it’s time to organize your clothing into modules.  To facilitate this, create module charts like the following.  Notice that the ratio of 3rd layer to bottoms to tops is 1 – 2 – 3.  This is the real [...]

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work your wardrobe: #1 – take inventory

Auditing your wardrobe is the first action to a more efficient, effective, and workable wardrobe. To start, set up five ‘stations’ – these are areas to place clothing into categories.  You can place a sign at each station to indicate the category.  You will probably need the following stations: Keep Alter Charity Sell Trash / [...]

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Saphire Dress

The final installment in our friend of Wardrobe911′s guest appearances is her final dress shape. Don’t forget to check out her kickstarter campaign and give any feedback. Enjoy!: “The DRES brand is currently in their final days of campaigning to build a revolutionary new line of clothing that is actually designed for women’s different shapes—and [...]

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Emerald Dress

Another fabulous installment from DRES, a friend of Wardrobe911. See some of our previous posts for more information!: “Over this week, we’re breaking down the new DRES brand dresses, each of which is designed to balance and enhance the differing shapes of women’s bodies. The DRES brand is currently campaigning on Kickstarter to build this [...]

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Ruby Dress

This is the next installment from our friend of Wardrobe911, DRES. Enjoy!: “The DRES brand wants to revolutionize how clothing is made, creating pieces that are uniquely made to balance and enhance women’s differing shapes. Currently clothing is being made using a system that forces women to wear clothes cut for only one shape, when [...]

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Diamond Dress

In our last post we told you about an exciting new project we had heard of from one of the friends of Wardrobe 911. Now we’re featuring a few of her different dress shapes, these are great tips for how to dress different body types and why her product is so valuable. Here’s what she [...]

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One Shape Doesn’t Fit All: Support Innovation

A good friend of Wardrobe911 has been working on something really remarkable. We hope that you can read and enjoy her project as much as we do. A great concept that so many women can truly relate to! Here’s what she sent to us: “When we browse through racks of clothes at the mall, we’re [...]

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Crisp Piping

We know it’s only January, but spring is right around the corner! You’re not quite ready to give up your sweaters and jackets but you want to add a punch of color to your outfit. Our solution is finding pieces with fun piping details! You can still be seasonally appropriate but it’s a nice way [...]

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