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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:25 AM (Eastern)
Okay, so you need to get your basics down first. You have to figure out what your basics are, first...what kind of shirts you actually like to wear (the "reach for" factor: the colors, the styles, the materials)...and your sources for these.
Once that's done...and I advise either buying lots of less expensive versions of your basics, or as many as you can afford of the more expensive versions...then you can do the novelty stuff. If you even do novelty.
I've been getting away from novelty, well for one thing I can't afford it. I'd rather sink my hard-earned dough into buying materials for my jewelry-making. Once you have a piece done, if you've done it well, it's there for the rest of your life if that's what you want. On the odd chance of course you can also dismantle it (again, if the structure is good, you'll do minimal cutting) and reuse the components.
Okay...then you can update the entire shmear every few years. I've never adhered to the notion that you need to be an indentured servant to your clothes (or your computer, for that matter)--do not replace every year, every two years, or whatever the trend is supposed to be. Get something decent and take care of it and nurse it along and stretch it out. Only when it's coming on to being obsolete...in the sense that nothing now works with it...okay, it's time to update.
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