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Right here’s a possibly bizarre query for right now: How have you ever adjusted your wardrobe after completely different life transitions? These are some broad definitions, however I feel all of them would depend as a Earlier than and an After in your life, if that is smart. This is perhaps something beneath:
- your first job after faculty or grad faculty
- getting a pet
- a return to grad faculty after working for just a few years
- promotion / or job change (reminiscent of agency to in home, or from a conservative workplace costume code to a enterprise informal one)
- altering your commuting model like strolling, driving, biking, public transportation
- motherhood, marriage, divorce, eldercare
- flexibility adjustments, reminiscent of working from residence, having a hybrid workplace, having to return to the workplace
- retirement
How I’ve Modified My Wardrobe Over Varied Life Transitions
Trying again, I positively modified my wardrobe after varied life transitions, in fairly main methods.
(First job to school: I didn’t change my wardrobe sufficient, truthfully — it was the heyday of Specific so the Editor/Columnist pants had been already in my wardrobe, however a few of my skirts had been approach too brief…)
Going again to regulation faculty — I feel I labored for about 18 months earlier than going again to highschool, partly as a result of I completed faculty in December. On the time, I actually felt SO MUCH OLDER than the straight-from-college children, which in fact is laughable at this level. My wardrobe modified in that I refused to return to school issues like backpacks, and I reveled within the newfound freedom to put on denims every time I wished.
Legislation faculty to regulation agency — suitmania! I purchased a ton of fits and much more blazers.
Conservative workplace to enterprise informal workplace — this one threw me for a loop as a result of I actually appreciated my sheath clothes and blazers, and I struggled with what was “my model” versus what was stuff that I wore due to my circumstances. (And, if “my model” wasn’t actually applicable in my enterprise informal workplace, how might I adapt it in a approach that “felt” like me?) I wound up including lots of 5-pocket pants that had been lower like denims, and I had a denim blazer that I wore over a few of my extra conservative appears like a monochromatic shirt/pants or a sheath costume.
Marriage / first condo buy — We purchased our first condo lower than a yr after getting married, so lots of that point was feeling like we had been home poor (and had renovation objectives, ha), so new clothes purchases weren’t on the prime of the precedence record. I may even say that marriage modified my wardrobe in that I selected consolation over look lots of occasions, if that is smart — switching to decrease heels or flats that I might stroll in, non-stabby bras, and many others.
Motherhood — the massive adjustments right here had been washable garments (even washable coats — I’ve informed my story of my toddler’s yogurt-covered palms and my cashmere coat earlier than, le sigh) — and sneakers that take little or no time to placed on, ideally slip-on. I additionally had primarily been a “clothes in the summertime” form of lady (vs shorts), however after a sure level it felt bizarre sitting on the ground with my kiddo with out turning into pants — plus I didn’t wish to fuss with clothes and skirts if I needed to run after him or choose him up shortly.
Working from House — I solely began working from residence about 5 months earlier than my first son was born, so motherhood and WFH are positively conflated in my thoughts, together with the attendant mother guilt/mother time crunch of “I don’t have time to spend on my look as a result of I ought to both be working or mothering.”
I’m curious, readers — did you alter your wardrobe(s) after life transitions? How so?
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