Last weekend, my husband and I were driving around running errands and on the way to BORDERS I had a thought and I thought to myself- I need to blog about this!
I moved to Houston with two suitcases. Yes. Two suitcases, that's it. My entire life in those two suitcases. I had lived with my mom throughout college so I didn't really have a ton of "stuff of my own" I just came with clothes and other meaningful belongings. I must admit my suitcases were big and they were both well over 50 lbs, but still...that's a small amount of space for 23 years of your life to fit into.
Thinking about that got me thinking about the evolution of my personal style and shopping habits. I have shopped a lot since I started to work...but what I never realized was that I kind of had to start from scratch.
I didn't have dress pants, skirts (aside from denim minis) and nice clothes for work. In college I wore jeans, LuluLemon pants, dresses, hoodies, t-shirts and UGGS. I didn't really have a sense of style back then other than comfy, cute, casual (the 3 c's!). I just shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle and went with what was comfy for my daily commutes to campus.
The truth is, when I moved here and started to work, I didn't know how to dress for the real world, nor did I have a work wardrobe. I was initially in the nonprofit world where offices are more casual (sometimes, um, a bit too casual).
I noticed once I got my current position, I became much more into shopping. I wanted to make sure I had the right clothes for the office- classic pieces like black pencil skirts, versatile black dresses, cardigans, silk blouses, dress shirts etc. Those are things I didn't own when I moved here.
When I moved here, I started a new chapter of my life. In the last three and a half years I've grown and changed in so many ways and a small part of that is just in the way I present myself. The jeans, hoodies and flip flops are still around, of course...but as I look in my closet now, 95% of what I see was accumulated over the last three and a half years.
It feels kind of crazy to think about that. I joked to my husband that I don't shop a lot because I "came here with nothing." He didn't buy it! I had to try, right?
I sometimes hear about people who have things in their closets from ten or 15 years ago. Unless it's a classic piece, I tend to donate or sell a lot of my closet. Styles change, your circumstances sometimes change leading you to need or want a new look...your personal sense of style evolves.
So tell me, lovely readers, how has your personal style evolved in the last 5 years or so? I'd love to hear about what you were wearing 3-5 years ago compared to now...or maybe just how your personal preferences have changed over the years.
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