From the vault: the temporal nature of clothes

everything changes

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the two binaries that we think our wardrobes should fall into. Either it’s cheap fast fashion and it’s bad and falls apart after two wears, or it’s an “investment” and needs to be something we must wear for the next twenty years. (FYI, hate to take this shopping excuse away from you, but clothing is never an investment. Unless it’s one of a very few designer bags, no fashion purchase is ever going to make you money, you just may be able to recoup a little bit of what you spent if you resell it later.)

The truth is that most things will fall somewhere in between and we could stress a little bit less about our clothes if we didn’t expect perfection from every clothing item. Yes, you want things you like and that fit and that feel good, but can you take the pressure off of everything to be a perfect purchase that lasts forever? 

This makes me think of my favorite designer, Elizabeth Suzann. She always talked about how she wanted her clothes to last, b…