WEBVTT - New Financial Year, New Wardrobe Guide 0:00:10.705 --> 0:00:13.425 You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast. 0:00:13.945 --> 0:00:17.465 Mama Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters 0:00:17.505 --> 0:00:19.225 that this podcast is recorded on. 0:00:21.665 --> 0:00:24.905 Whoever said orange is a new pink with seriously disserved. 0:00:24.625 --> 0:00:28.625 Laurels for spraying groundbreaking? Oh my god, you have to 0:00:28.745 --> 0:00:30.345 do it. You live for fashion. 0:00:31.625 --> 0:00:34.065 Hello and welcome for Nothing to Wear, the podcast that 0:00:34.145 --> 0:00:36.625 solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe. 0:00:36.745 --> 0:00:37.745 I'm Lee Camberllan. 0:00:37.865 --> 0:00:40.465 Every week I chat to an expert who helps us 0:00:40.505 --> 0:00:42.105 work out how to get more out of the clothes 0:00:42.145 --> 0:00:45.065 you already own and tells us what is and isn't 0:00:45.185 --> 0:00:48.385 worth adding to our wardrobes. Now, before I get started, 0:00:48.585 --> 0:00:50.705 stick around to the very end, because there's an extra 0:00:50.745 --> 0:00:53.385 segment on this episode, The Wonder for Me of Freedman 0:00:53.505 --> 0:00:55.265 and I don't just say that because she's my boss, 0:00:55.785 --> 0:00:57.345 is coming to sit down with me and we're going 0:00:57.425 --> 0:01:00.305 to talk about pre Loved. It's the new financial year. 0:01:00.305 --> 0:01:02.305 We might have overspent, we might want to just save 0:01:02.345 --> 0:01:05.185 some money, or we might just want some unique outfits 0:01:05.345 --> 0:01:07.225 or to clear out our wardrobes. So we're going to 0:01:07.225 --> 0:01:10.265 talk about pre Loved buying and selling to do it? 0:01:10.345 --> 0:01:13.225 Where to look if it's overwhelming. We're going to cover 0:01:13.265 --> 0:01:16.545 it all. But first, I've got Kim Crowley joining me. 0:01:16.665 --> 0:01:18.745 She's been on the show a couple of times before, 0:01:18.825 --> 0:01:20.865 and she is a virgo. I had to ask her 0:01:20.905 --> 0:01:24.545 because she's so clever and strategic when it comes to shopping, 0:01:25.265 --> 0:01:28.745 getting dressed and saving money. So it's a new financial year. 0:01:28.825 --> 0:01:30.705 You might have blown the budget, but that's okay. 0:01:30.865 --> 0:01:31.585 It's a new year. 0:01:31.865 --> 0:01:34.345 So we're going to talk about saving money, doing a 0:01:34.425 --> 0:01:38.825 wardrobe audit, and then her very interesting four by four 0:01:38.905 --> 0:01:41.665 methods got nothing to do with cars, So let's jump 0:01:41.665 --> 0:01:42.025 into it. 0:01:42.465 --> 0:01:46.265 Kim, welcome back. I'm so excited. This is your third time? 0:01:46.745 --> 0:01:49.145 Is that a fourth? Yes, it's great that I'm using 0:01:49.145 --> 0:01:51.305 count I love it exactly. 0:01:51.385 --> 0:01:52.345 That means we love you. 0:01:52.865 --> 0:01:55.785 The returning guests, well, I've got various questions, but one 0:01:55.785 --> 0:01:57.905 that I want to ask you is do you have 0:01:57.945 --> 0:02:01.825 a fashion security blanket? And if so, what is it? 0:02:02.585 --> 0:02:05.905 That's a great question. My trench coat is a really 0:02:05.905 --> 0:02:07.745 well loved piece. Actually put it from ced A. Just 0:02:07.745 --> 0:02:10.745 go it to toffee color cotton. I get compliments on 0:02:10.785 --> 0:02:11.545 it every time. 0:02:11.345 --> 0:02:14.145 I wear You say toffee, Why I say toffee? Like 0:02:14.185 --> 0:02:15.585 not ten not brown? 0:02:15.905 --> 0:02:18.785 Because I love food as well, so I can associate 0:02:18.825 --> 0:02:22.345 any colors with food. I love it even more. But 0:02:22.385 --> 0:02:24.505 it's this beautiful toffee color. It's really rich color and 0:02:24.505 --> 0:02:26.305 it goes with everything. I have to actually stop myself 0:02:26.345 --> 0:02:26.785 wearing it. 0:02:26.785 --> 0:02:28.745 So you can wear your other things exactly because. 0:02:28.505 --> 0:02:29.545 I want to wear more of my clothes. 0:02:29.545 --> 0:02:30.305 It's security blank. 0:02:30.385 --> 0:02:31.905 Yeah, it is a bit security blank it, especially at 0:02:31.905 --> 0:02:33.505 the moment it's chilly and you can wrap yourself up 0:02:33.545 --> 0:02:36.265 because that cotton actually does help the wind not get 0:02:36.265 --> 0:02:36.465 to you. 0:02:36.585 --> 0:02:39.945 Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of it's not waterproof or wind proof, 0:02:40.065 --> 0:02:44.385 but it really does that kind much better. Tighten fine fiber, yes, exactly, 0:02:44.385 --> 0:02:47.585 really tightly woven, so it's actually a bit protective. Yeah. 0:02:47.705 --> 0:02:48.985 And then light waiting it where. 0:02:49.105 --> 0:02:50.585 Yeah, I'm just living in it. 0:02:50.665 --> 0:02:52.385 I know it's winter, but god, I love it even 0:02:52.425 --> 0:02:54.265 for the summer. I love like waiting it where too. 0:02:54.985 --> 0:02:58.545 So, Kim, you've been in the industry for over twenty years, 0:02:58.545 --> 0:03:00.625 which is bizarre. You must have been like eleven when 0:03:00.625 --> 0:03:03.465 you start. Of course you worked as a designer, so 0:03:03.465 --> 0:03:05.785 anyone that's listened to the show before will know that. 0:03:06.185 --> 0:03:09.025 And then for brands like H and M. A source yeah, 0:03:09.065 --> 0:03:11.505 I was gonna say age and m and I didn't 0:03:11.545 --> 0:03:12.305 know that I'm as. 0:03:12.385 --> 0:03:15.385 Yeah, yeah, right at the beginning when A soos was 0:03:15.425 --> 0:03:18.345 literally much more about Paris Hilton. Yes, yeah, just literally 0:03:18.385 --> 0:03:20.185 replicate like I've. 0:03:20.105 --> 0:03:24.225 Seen screen, yeah, magazine. 0:03:24.385 --> 0:03:27.105 Yeah, it's crazy thinking about then and how much it's evolved. 0:03:27.265 --> 0:03:29.345 But then you also work with real people, so well, 0:03:29.425 --> 0:03:32.105 you have all shapes and sizes absolutely, So what are 0:03:32.265 --> 0:03:35.105 some of the common things women that you've worked with 0:03:35.145 --> 0:03:38.425 over the decades and all walks of live share when 0:03:38.465 --> 0:03:40.305 it comes to clothes and style. 0:03:40.665 --> 0:03:43.065 Oh gosh, so many things that we all share. It's funny, 0:03:43.065 --> 0:03:45.505 there's this kind of like, so many things that we 0:03:45.545 --> 0:03:48.225 all share, and then when we get deeper, we're very 0:03:48.225 --> 0:03:50.505 different in lots of different ways, but there is a big, 0:03:50.505 --> 0:03:52.425 big area that we all share. A lot of it 0:03:52.465 --> 0:03:55.705 is not knowing how to shop, so being able to 0:03:56.305 --> 0:04:02.345 understand how to you know, shop strategically, not emotionally. But 0:04:02.465 --> 0:04:06.625 one of the biggest biggest things then, aren't you and 0:04:06.665 --> 0:04:08.945 it is you know, we have to change the way 0:04:09.065 --> 0:04:12.585 that we've been behaving for decades, and that's what I'm 0:04:12.625 --> 0:04:14.785 trying to plant seeds for a lot of my clients 0:04:15.185 --> 0:04:18.225 but one of the biggest, biggest things is the ability 0:04:18.305 --> 0:04:22.825 to buy stuff but not put the clothes into outfits. 0:04:23.105 --> 0:04:25.265 That's one of the biggest things that I deal with 0:04:25.345 --> 0:04:27.465 all the time. So lots of people can buy lots 0:04:27.505 --> 0:04:27.865 of stuff. 0:04:28.025 --> 0:04:33.065 Yeah, oh god, I'm fabulous that it shopping wrong. Then 0:04:33.465 --> 0:04:35.345 that's where you can't get dressed. 0:04:35.025 --> 0:04:37.625 Exactly because you haven't got the outfit. So the whole 0:04:37.665 --> 0:04:39.665 nothing to wear concept is, you know, you look at 0:04:39.665 --> 0:04:42.985 your wardrobe and it's stacked, and it's all packed, but 0:04:43.065 --> 0:04:45.345 we've got nothing to wear is often because we haven't 0:04:45.385 --> 0:04:48.585 found the outfit yet. And that's so much of what 0:04:48.665 --> 0:04:50.465 brings me do. It really does light me up when 0:04:50.505 --> 0:04:52.625 I'm in wardrobes. In fact, I had two of them yesterday. 0:04:52.665 --> 0:04:55.025 I had a female client and male client and they're like, 0:04:55.065 --> 0:04:58.185 I've got loads of stuff, but I can't find the outfits. 0:04:58.185 --> 0:04:59.585 And I'm like, oh, have you done that? Have you 0:04:59.625 --> 0:04:59.905 done that? 0:04:59.985 --> 0:05:00.065 No? 0:05:00.665 --> 0:05:02.985 Yeah, because a lot of us will get say a dress, 0:05:03.065 --> 0:05:04.345 and then we'll put it with the black blades and 0:05:04.385 --> 0:05:05.905 black shoe and it's like, I've done that. Look, I'm 0:05:05.945 --> 0:05:09.505 really bored of it, I know. And then I'm like, 0:05:09.665 --> 0:05:12.505 how have you put it? With this blazer. They work perfect. Oh, yes, 0:05:12.905 --> 0:05:14.545 because a lot of the time what we do when 0:05:14.545 --> 0:05:16.545 we purchase we put things in boxes in our heads. 0:05:16.625 --> 0:05:19.905 You know that lighter blazer is a wedding blazer and 0:05:19.945 --> 0:05:22.505 this dress is a sexy date night dress. Yes, we 0:05:22.585 --> 0:05:25.265 don't think that the two can coexist or pair together, 0:05:26.145 --> 0:05:27.905 and so I want to be able to go in 0:05:27.985 --> 0:05:29.625 and go. Of course it does, because I don't see 0:05:29.625 --> 0:05:32.385 the barriers. I don't see like how you think that 0:05:32.465 --> 0:05:35.945 your wardrobe fresh eye. I'm like, ah, this goes with this, 0:05:35.945 --> 0:05:37.345 This goes with this, this goes with this. 0:05:37.465 --> 0:05:39.745 Because you said it's how to shop, so is how 0:05:39.785 --> 0:05:42.465 do we fix that problem at the shopping stage so 0:05:42.505 --> 0:05:44.265 it doesn't happen in the wardrobe stage. 0:05:44.385 --> 0:05:46.465 That is a lot of it is fixed by my 0:05:46.505 --> 0:05:47.465 four by four formula. 0:05:47.545 --> 0:05:48.705 Oh, we're going to talk about that later. 0:05:48.705 --> 0:05:50.385 Oh okay, cool, Yes, I want to talk about that 0:05:50.425 --> 0:05:53.225 later because I'm terrible at maths and you love numbers, 0:05:53.265 --> 0:05:55.425 but you're going to teach me something. It's a new 0:05:55.465 --> 0:05:58.545 financial year, which I love. The first of julight, Oh, 0:05:58.585 --> 0:06:00.585 you know, the start of the new financial year. Because 0:06:00.665 --> 0:06:01.345 I've had quite. 0:06:01.225 --> 0:06:02.225 A crappy start to the year. 0:06:02.385 --> 0:06:04.825 Not fashion related, but I'm just gonna I'm like, you 0:06:04.825 --> 0:06:09.625 know what happier year, fresh energy, fresh, vibe, fresh everything, yep. 0:06:09.905 --> 0:06:12.305 And you know, of course it's the financial year, so 0:06:13.105 --> 0:06:15.905 we've all got money on our minds. What's the biggest 0:06:15.905 --> 0:06:19.385 money mistake you see people making when it comes to fashion? 0:06:19.825 --> 0:06:21.345 So many well we talk about how we're going to 0:06:21.385 --> 0:06:21.825 fix them. 0:06:21.865 --> 0:06:25.705 So three main ones. First one is buying on sale, 0:06:25.985 --> 0:06:27.665 so many can't say, oh, I bought this, but I've 0:06:27.665 --> 0:06:31.225 never worn it. Bought this, but it's you know, I 0:06:31.265 --> 0:06:32.705 haven't worn it, and it's all got tickets, and it's 0:06:32.705 --> 0:06:34.745 all got cel tickets being Red Mark, you know, stamps 0:06:34.785 --> 0:06:35.185 all over them. 0:06:35.185 --> 0:06:37.385 In all the rest of it sale extra discount y, yeah. 0:06:37.225 --> 0:06:41.465 Which sounds really enticing, but is not how I want 0:06:41.465 --> 0:06:43.065 you to shop. You know, if you really love that 0:06:43.105 --> 0:06:44.665 product and you've watched it go down. 0:06:44.545 --> 0:06:46.785 Down, you would have got it full price. 0:06:46.585 --> 0:06:49.225 Exactly, jump on it. But nothing is a bargain if 0:06:49.265 --> 0:06:51.425 you don't wear it. And you know, having like three 0:06:51.505 --> 0:06:53.625 or four pieces that oh I only cost thirty bucks 0:06:53.705 --> 0:06:56.945 or fifteen or forty or whatever your budget, it all 0:06:56.985 --> 0:06:58.665 adds up, but you never wear it, so it takes 0:06:58.745 --> 0:07:01.025 up space, takes up brain space, makes us feel guilty, 0:07:01.305 --> 0:07:03.825 takes up guilt exactly. And I don't want people to 0:07:03.825 --> 0:07:06.825 feel good. I want to actually have less that they 0:07:06.865 --> 0:07:10.025 wear more. So the whole buying on sale thing is 0:07:10.065 --> 0:07:12.065 not I it's I know it's hard. Sometimes we look 0:07:12.065 --> 0:07:13.665 around storm like, oh my god, I really tell me. 0:07:13.745 --> 0:07:14.785 You don't shop the sales. 0:07:15.145 --> 0:07:18.625 I only shop it if I really love it. 0:07:18.945 --> 0:07:22.465 So maybe you were already across. Yeah, if you love 0:07:22.545 --> 0:07:24.385 that brand and you check out their sale, you don't 0:07:24.425 --> 0:07:26.545 just find a random website that s having a great 0:07:26.545 --> 0:07:27.985 sale with random stuff you've never seen. 0:07:28.025 --> 0:07:32.945 Okay, No, So to Cuba, I've got beautiful pleated cream nitpants. 0:07:33.185 --> 0:07:34.985 I was looking for something like that. I happened to 0:07:34.985 --> 0:07:37.785 be shopping for myself, which is quite rare, and they're 0:07:37.785 --> 0:07:40.105 not on sale, and I was like, oh, I'm definitely 0:07:40.145 --> 0:07:40.745 going to buy them. 0:07:40.825 --> 0:07:44.025 Okay because there, Yes, that star was already something you 0:07:44.025 --> 0:07:44.425 were seeing. 0:07:44.425 --> 0:07:46.065 Absolutely. The other thing, yeah. 0:07:45.905 --> 0:07:46.345 I need more. 0:07:46.465 --> 0:07:49.705 Here is the buying three for two. You know, those 0:07:49.705 --> 0:07:50.425 whole spend and. 0:07:50.385 --> 0:07:51.545 Save only good for andy. 0:07:51.585 --> 0:07:54.665 It's just capitalism, yes, exactly. Yeah, it's just capitalism. They're 0:07:54.665 --> 0:07:56.545 trying to make you buy more. So we often think 0:07:56.625 --> 0:07:58.745 shopping is a numbers game, or if I buy three, 0:07:58.825 --> 0:08:00.425 that's going to make me happy, then if I had two. 0:08:00.505 --> 0:08:03.225 Yeah, Also that I fall into this chap all the 0:08:03.265 --> 0:08:05.065 time of free shipping, I'm like, I've got to find 0:08:05.105 --> 0:08:07.465 something else free, but I don't really. 0:08:07.265 --> 0:08:07.945 Need the other thing. 0:08:08.105 --> 0:08:10.305 Yeah, I should have just paid the ten dollars, yeah, 0:08:10.385 --> 0:08:11.745 rather than trying to round up to forty. 0:08:11.985 --> 0:08:13.025 Yeah, you know exactly. 0:08:13.305 --> 0:08:17.185 So it is really keeping your eye on how desirable 0:08:17.225 --> 0:08:20.305 the item is that you want and buying one and 0:08:20.345 --> 0:08:23.105 buying right, rather than buying plenty and buying so. 0:08:23.185 --> 0:08:26.465 One of the mistakes you see is people buy more 0:08:26.505 --> 0:08:29.425 than they need, more than they need. Yeah, Kim, stop 0:08:29.505 --> 0:08:30.585 following me everywhere. 0:08:30.705 --> 0:08:33.385 And then the third thing is thinking we need five 0:08:33.465 --> 0:08:35.905 new tops when really we need one new top that 0:08:35.945 --> 0:08:39.105 we can wear five ways. Because you know, I could 0:08:39.105 --> 0:08:41.785 talk about shopping being a numbers game. The number I 0:08:41.825 --> 0:08:44.145 want you to care about is how many ways you 0:08:44.185 --> 0:08:49.305 can wear something? Yeah, yes, exactly. Rather than having all 0:08:49.345 --> 0:08:51.505 those five new items in your wardrobe, you're probably only 0:08:51.545 --> 0:08:54.665 gonna wear two. If you've got one that's really versatile, 0:08:54.665 --> 0:08:57.865 it flatters, you feel really good in it, layers under things, 0:08:57.905 --> 0:09:00.665 you can marry on its own. You don't need to exactly. 0:09:01.145 --> 0:09:03.145 You can wear it five ways, So you know, I 0:09:03.185 --> 0:09:06.225 want people to start pivoting the numbers game. The way 0:09:06.225 --> 0:09:09.065 that we think shopping is about buying lots of stuff 0:09:09.105 --> 0:09:11.505 because hopefull one of it will make us feel good. Yeah, 0:09:11.745 --> 0:09:12.785 that's just capitalism. 0:09:13.425 --> 0:09:16.025 I think it feels like we will feel better when 0:09:16.025 --> 0:09:18.945 we've got options, but then we oftentimes feel overwhelmed and 0:09:18.985 --> 0:09:21.025 it makes it harder exactly exactly. 0:09:21.025 --> 0:09:22.745 And that's actually something I was talking about the other day. 0:09:22.985 --> 0:09:26.265 My clients feel really underwhelmed with their wardrobe, overwhelmed by 0:09:26.265 --> 0:09:28.585 the shops. Yeah, and it's like I feel, and that's 0:09:28.625 --> 0:09:29.305 when we feel start. 0:09:29.385 --> 0:09:30.625 That's such a good way to look at it. 0:09:31.105 --> 0:09:31.705 Yeah, me too. 0:09:31.785 --> 0:09:33.545 So I just don't know what I do. I just 0:09:33.665 --> 0:09:34.185 I think. 0:09:34.145 --> 0:09:37.185 Exactly because we haven't found the outfit yet that exists 0:09:37.185 --> 0:09:38.985 in our wardrobe. Because this is the thing, it was. 0:09:38.945 --> 0:09:41.545 A desire because oftentimes I'm just shopping because I'm bored 0:09:41.625 --> 0:09:43.585 or said or getting my period or I'm rewarding my. 0:09:43.745 --> 0:09:45.825 Yes, yes, but that's when you need to buy lipstick 0:09:46.065 --> 0:09:53.905 or something like that. Yeah, yes, facial something else will 0:09:54.265 --> 0:09:56.105 that will have that return on investment, because that's what 0:09:56.185 --> 0:09:57.905 I want people to think about when they're purchasing. What's 0:09:57.945 --> 0:10:00.945 my return on investment? Every textile you bring into your house, 0:10:01.265 --> 0:10:03.665 think about the return and investment that cost per weear? 0:10:04.265 --> 0:10:08.625 Yeah, so, and the financially, it has just happened. We've 0:10:08.745 --> 0:10:11.025 ordered it all of our maybe the tax department has 0:10:11.105 --> 0:10:13.265 ordered it us. So we've done our finances. So let's 0:10:13.465 --> 0:10:14.545 order our wardrobe. 0:10:15.865 --> 0:10:16.465 What do we do? 0:10:16.625 --> 0:10:19.585 We go through our wardrobe and we work out, you know, 0:10:19.585 --> 0:10:21.665 what we already do have, and we work out gaps. 0:10:21.745 --> 0:10:23.665 And for me, this is something I really need to 0:10:23.705 --> 0:10:25.305 do because I've spoken to you before. I love to 0:10:25.345 --> 0:10:28.145 buy duplicates because I love a genre shirt and I 0:10:28.265 --> 0:10:29.385 accidentally buy another one. 0:10:29.425 --> 0:10:31.625 I don't need another one. So we're going to do 0:10:31.665 --> 0:10:34.865 an audit of our wardrobe and then we're going to 0:10:35.305 --> 0:10:38.065 decide what to do with those things later. But what's 0:10:38.105 --> 0:10:41.065 our process when doing that audit? I love saying audit, yes, 0:10:41.345 --> 0:10:41.905 because it's. 0:10:41.745 --> 0:10:45.665 The end fin that sounds very freshal So what we 0:10:45.785 --> 0:10:47.505 want to do. So basically, when we're looking at our 0:10:47.545 --> 0:10:51.225 wardrobe and we're deciding what we're wearing, a really good 0:10:51.225 --> 0:10:52.985 way to do it is to actually look at the 0:10:53.025 --> 0:10:55.385 things that you're wearing the most, So they're the things 0:10:55.385 --> 0:10:57.745 that you're washing the most, right, and you bring them out. 0:10:57.785 --> 0:10:59.265 Good way to do it, yeah, because you know that. 0:10:59.305 --> 0:11:01.945 You're yeh, yeah, you know you love it. 0:11:02.025 --> 0:11:04.625 Yeah, And so we're and also you know what part 0:11:04.665 --> 0:11:06.225 of the reason I do insta, as I've talked before, 0:11:06.345 --> 0:11:08.345 is because I want to just be able to look 0:11:08.385 --> 0:11:10.305 back at really what I'm wearing. Sometimes what you think 0:11:10.305 --> 0:11:13.185 you're wearing, what you really wear a slightly different, but 0:11:13.665 --> 0:11:15.585 you put them all out in your bed and then 0:11:15.625 --> 0:11:17.785 what you do because when we put things in our 0:11:17.785 --> 0:11:20.185 wardrobe and they're all side hanging, it's kind of hard. 0:11:20.265 --> 0:11:21.905 We think we know what's in there, and we think 0:11:21.905 --> 0:11:24.025 we know what it looks like. But actually I want 0:11:24.025 --> 0:11:26.665 you to bring them out because out of those pieces 0:11:26.665 --> 0:11:30.705 that you're wearing, you're probably only wearing like very formulaic outfits. 0:11:30.985 --> 0:11:32.665 So you might wear one top with one bottom, this 0:11:32.745 --> 0:11:34.385 top with this bottom, this top with this bottom. 0:11:34.465 --> 0:11:36.265 Yeah, because it's in your head. 0:11:36.065 --> 0:11:38.465 Exactly because we know the outfit is familiar, and we 0:11:38.505 --> 0:11:40.145 go back to what we know. You know, we've got 0:11:40.145 --> 0:11:42.745 that kind of photographic memory. I want you to wear 0:11:42.745 --> 0:11:44.745 that top with that bottom. So I want you to 0:11:44.785 --> 0:11:46.665 wear like outfit top number. 0:11:46.465 --> 0:11:48.625 Three, wear them at least just try it on and. 0:11:48.665 --> 0:11:50.225 See how the experiment. 0:11:50.465 --> 0:11:53.705 Yeah, so you doing dress up absolutely the audit absolutely 0:11:54.065 --> 0:11:56.145 kind of order because that text apartment, and that's my 0:11:56.265 --> 0:11:56.825 kind of order. 0:11:57.105 --> 0:11:59.305 It makes the text department a little bit more interesting. 0:11:59.825 --> 0:12:02.225 But what I find fascinating, and what I didn't realize 0:12:02.225 --> 0:12:04.665 at the time, is that we buy things and put 0:12:04.665 --> 0:12:06.665 them in our wardrobes, right, and we expect our wardrobes 0:12:06.665 --> 0:12:08.185 to work really hard for us and to give all 0:12:08.225 --> 0:12:10.545 this stuff back to us. As you know, I've bought this, 0:12:10.625 --> 0:12:12.745 I've spent two hundred dollars on the top. Now it's 0:12:12.785 --> 0:12:15.745 time to you know, to stop reaping the fit exactly 0:12:15.825 --> 0:12:18.705 and get some return on investment. But we don't actually 0:12:18.745 --> 0:12:21.105 then invest the time to play with that garment. We 0:12:21.185 --> 0:12:23.425 buy it, we wear it one way, and we're like, okay, 0:12:23.425 --> 0:12:25.265 I'm on the next thing. It's so true, and I 0:12:25.345 --> 0:12:27.585 want you to go deeper on that garment because there's 0:12:27.665 --> 0:12:31.145 so much potential in your wardrobe. There really is, but 0:12:31.225 --> 0:12:33.785 we need to give our wardrobe time to be able 0:12:33.825 --> 0:12:35.545 to release that potential. It's not going to jump out 0:12:35.545 --> 0:12:37.945 and bite you on the bum. You have to go. 0:12:38.105 --> 0:12:39.865 And it's not necessary hard work, it's playful. 0:12:39.985 --> 0:12:40.905 Yeah that's true. 0:12:41.065 --> 0:12:44.345 Literally take it down exactly, and you have to take 0:12:44.385 --> 0:12:46.105 down the barriers that you've put in. You know, I 0:12:46.145 --> 0:12:48.305 go back to that jacket that it's like colored. Oh yeah, 0:12:48.305 --> 0:12:50.905 that's my wedding one, and then this is my work 0:12:51.025 --> 0:12:53.265 can and whatnot, and then we start combining them. 0:12:53.305 --> 0:12:55.665 Like these are a body yellow and like a few 0:12:55.665 --> 0:12:57.305 people have said to me to say like, oh, I 0:12:57.385 --> 0:12:59.625 can't you cold, And I'm like, well no, because I 0:12:59.625 --> 0:13:00.985 think it's a summary. 0:13:00.665 --> 0:13:03.225 Base yes, and then yes, yeah yeah, yah, way, I'd 0:13:03.225 --> 0:13:04.745 be like yellow exactly. 0:13:05.025 --> 0:13:08.465 Yeah, and you've put your jacket over it exactly. But 0:13:08.585 --> 0:13:10.145 how do you not just spend a little bit of 0:13:10.185 --> 0:13:12.865 time doing that. You would have put that top underneath 0:13:12.945 --> 0:13:16.305 and that pan in your summer only wardrobe, and we 0:13:16.345 --> 0:13:18.625 put barriers up, and I want to knock all those 0:13:18.665 --> 0:13:20.945 barriers down. And by pulling things out on your bed 0:13:21.225 --> 0:13:23.545 a lot of time, the outfits make themselves. Yeah, because 0:13:23.545 --> 0:13:25.185 if you've got a style, which we all have, we 0:13:25.385 --> 0:13:27.625 have all got personal style, and we've all got a 0:13:27.665 --> 0:13:29.385 type that we like and a kind of look. So 0:13:29.465 --> 0:13:31.625 once we put out our favorite pieces on our bed, 0:13:31.665 --> 0:13:34.425 the ones that are on rotation, there's naturally going to 0:13:34.465 --> 0:13:37.385 be some common denominators that make them go together. 0:13:37.385 --> 0:13:41.305 And maybe not immediately logical outfits that. Yes, that's where 0:13:41.345 --> 0:13:42.865 they're like, yes, work comes in. 0:13:42.985 --> 0:13:44.585 That's a really good point. We always want to take 0:13:44.625 --> 0:13:45.305 away the logic. 0:13:45.585 --> 0:13:48.025 Yeah, yeah, like the wrong shoe theory, but for your 0:13:48.025 --> 0:13:59.905 fact exactly all right, So we've done the audit. Our 0:13:59.945 --> 0:14:02.105 happy colths are having a party on the bed. Then 0:14:02.145 --> 0:14:07.585 there's the clothes who have had a lovely life maybe. 0:14:07.305 --> 0:14:09.825 But they're not going to make the party. You're not invited. Ye, 0:14:10.105 --> 0:14:11.505 what are we doing with them? 0:14:11.825 --> 0:14:14.505 So we are either because basically we don't want to 0:14:14.545 --> 0:14:17.785 ever throw clothes away. It's either you try and sell it, 0:14:17.865 --> 0:14:19.665 and this is in the right kind of order, so 0:14:19.665 --> 0:14:21.025 you try and sell it and make some money to 0:14:21.465 --> 0:14:23.185 recycle that money into your Extperkay. 0:14:23.185 --> 0:14:25.345 I want to ask, can I break them down there? Okay? 0:14:25.425 --> 0:14:27.625 So I've got things that I are in my cell 0:14:27.705 --> 0:14:30.865 pie or that could be a coach bag or an 0:14:30.905 --> 0:14:34.185 oriiton bag or could be god, I've even got some 0:14:34.345 --> 0:14:35.025 fancy of things. 0:14:35.025 --> 0:14:40.225 But then I've got your maybe dish or it's just 0:14:40.385 --> 0:14:42.585 I've got such a mix of things. I don't know 0:14:42.865 --> 0:14:43.785 where to sell. 0:14:43.625 --> 0:14:48.065 What or like what's valuable? Yeah, because it's so personal. 0:14:48.265 --> 0:14:50.105 Yeah, so sometime and that's it. In you only need 0:14:50.105 --> 0:14:52.625 one buyer. It's just getting to them, is it. So 0:14:52.785 --> 0:14:55.505 it's either going to places like you know, pre loved 0:14:55.545 --> 0:14:57.025 and consignment and all those care. 0:14:56.905 --> 0:14:59.465 Places like your designer Like I've got one designer bag. 0:14:59.465 --> 0:15:01.945 I feel so guilty about buying, but I never use it, 0:15:01.985 --> 0:15:02.825 so I'd like to read. 0:15:03.105 --> 0:15:05.345 Yeah. Yeah, and as long as you learn a few lessons, 0:15:05.385 --> 0:15:07.945 but why you don't wear it and use it, then 0:15:07.985 --> 0:15:09.545 you've learned the lesson from it and you can set 0:15:09.545 --> 0:15:10.065 it free. 0:15:09.945 --> 0:15:14.065 And sing with exactly exactly. 0:15:14.265 --> 0:15:16.545 So it's either consignment or might be on you know, 0:15:16.585 --> 0:15:18.945 the specific Facebook groups that you can sell it. There's 0:15:19.025 --> 0:15:20.705 lots of different ways to to sell it. You can 0:15:20.745 --> 0:15:23.585 just sell it on marketplace, you know, best collector all different. 0:15:23.265 --> 0:15:27.105 Places, eBay, depop exactly. 0:15:26.825 --> 0:15:29.905 Exactly there are there are and it might just be 0:15:30.025 --> 0:15:31.865 having a little bit of research to the type of 0:15:31.905 --> 0:15:33.865 brands that seem to sell quite well and that they've 0:15:33.905 --> 0:15:36.345 got you know, maybe not many listed on that actually 0:15:36.385 --> 0:15:39.225 might go quicker for example, that's kind of quite good 0:15:39.265 --> 0:15:41.425 to look at. If you can't sell it and make money, 0:15:41.585 --> 0:15:45.385 then give it to a friend, friend gift, or you 0:15:45.425 --> 0:15:46.305 swap it with a friend. 0:15:46.625 --> 0:15:48.785 I was going to say, I've had some friends starting 0:15:48.785 --> 0:15:51.465 to do little swaps and a little swap parties. 0:15:51.265 --> 0:15:54.065 Or great because it gives you life to that's all 0:15:54.065 --> 0:15:56.345 we want to do, because it takes such a takes 0:15:56.385 --> 0:15:58.665 such a lot of work when I've been designing to 0:15:58.665 --> 0:16:02.065 to get a textile into the world and make it beautiful. 0:16:02.665 --> 0:16:04.625 So to me, I look, I think of the long 0:16:04.785 --> 0:16:07.745 life cycle of that garment, not just the wearing part 0:16:07.785 --> 0:16:09.465 for the person one. I'm like, what you're going to 0:16:09.545 --> 0:16:12.105 do after the next thing is you if you don't 0:16:12.105 --> 0:16:13.865 give it to a friend or swap it, then you 0:16:13.945 --> 0:16:16.305 give it to charity, donating so many in a fashion 0:16:16.385 --> 0:16:18.945 forward dress for success. There's so many great ones out 0:16:18.985 --> 0:16:21.385 there that really do amazing things to women. 0:16:21.185 --> 0:16:23.345 For They're here in Bondai, but there are Instagram. 0:16:23.585 --> 0:16:25.825 Yeah yeah, yeah, last week actually oh did you then? 0:16:25.865 --> 0:16:25.985 Love? 0:16:26.265 --> 0:16:27.785 Tell you what I got? But it's all for charity. 0:16:27.865 --> 0:16:29.225