Why WT matters to me

Colleen wrote a brilliant Centenary Post today. I especially liked her penultimate paragraph, which mirrors my own feelings about the whole AT/WT thing. I’d like to add the the dialogue about why this all matters by posting a little quote.  

What is a closet, really, but a catalogue of the different personas we have auditioned and discarded? Hanging there in our closets are reminders, both good and bad, of who we are, who we’ve been and who we’ve hoped to be. No wonder things can get a bit muddled.

… Closets are often where we hide things: skeletons, forbidden loves, terrible birthday gifts we couldn’t return. It is for this reason that deciding what to wear while staring into those murky depths can be not just daunting, but emotionally exhausting as well.”

That’s from Tim Gunn’s ‘A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style’ which I bought on Wende’s recommendation. It’s the last reference to ‘emotionally exhausting’ that sums up why Wardrobe Therapy is important to me and why I want to answer the difficult questions, replace Velveteen Rabbits, buy lipstick and what-have-you. I want to be able to just get on with things and rid myself of this particular emotional exhaustion once and for all. My aim is to feel good and confident and ‘my best self’ in my clothes so I can then forget about them and use the energy currently expended on daily sartorial mithering on better things.