Designer shoes and handbags are just not in my DNA. I am apparently missing that segment of the X chromosome. However, I have been in enough female clients’ closets to know that I am in the minority. I’ve worked with clients long enough to know that letting go of something you no longer use or love is especially hard if you paid a lot of money for it. That means that designer shoes and handbags often stick around past their…
Read more →I recently wrote about how the internet has been a game-changer for consignment. (See “A New Spin on Consignment“). Now a website called Fashion Project is combining the new consignment model with charitable donation. Fashion Project — whose motto is “Fashion as a Force for Good” — enables you to donate your no-longer-loved stuff for the benefit of one of many charities with which they have partnered. The process is simple. Select a charity from their long list, enter your contact information, and then pick…
Read more →In my last tip, I spoke about letting go of clothes that don’t make you look fabulous. If you’ve taken my advice, you now have a pile of clothes you no longer want. But what should you do with them? Everyone has a tendency to put a higher dollar value on their possessions than anyone is willing to pay. This is particularly true for expensive clothes. No matter how much wear someone has gotten out of their expensive or designer items,…
Read more →What’s important to us changes over time. When I was in my 20’s and 30’s, I was willing to put much more time into my appearance – my hair, my nails, my clothes. Now I like to keep my routines as simple as possible. When I’m working with clients, I find that they have piles of clothes, footwear, and accessories that need some sort of action – actions that they feel they “should” take care of but keep putting off. (I’ve written about…
Read more →I spent Veteran’s Day engaged in what might described as a busman’s holiday. (For those not familiar with that quaint phrase, it means spending your vacation doing something very similar to your normal work.) In my case, the activity was cleaning out closets, sorting and packaging items for donation and recycling, and discarding the rest. What made this activity different was that the items belonged to my mother, who passed away earlier this year. I had help from my sister, and moral…
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