Wardrobe Planning
The woman’s wardrobe should consist of interchangeable basic garments and accessories. Basic garments include coats, skirts, trousers, suits, tops, jackets, raincoats. Accessories such as bags, belts, gloves, hats, scarves, shoes, tights and stockings can be worn with basic garments to introduce new ideas. You can be well-dressed if you spend your time and money wisely. You should try not to make mistakes when planning your wardrobe.
Plan the most expensive things first; then plan the rest of your wardrobe around them. Plan your coat before your dresses; your dresses and suits before hat and shoes. It is always a good idea not to select all of the most expensive items the same year. You should know which of the garments will be in fashion for at least three years.
Before buying new garments analyse your present wardrobe. Check the articles that you want to continue using.The greater number of basic or classic garments you choose in harmonizing designs, textures and colours, the greater your wardrobe’s versatility. Coats and suits are the main items in the wardrobe, so choose a style that will not be out of date by the next year. Your new clothes must integrate with those you have already and therefore widen the possibilities of different combinations.
Don’t forget about fashion. If you buy a style at full price when it is coming in fashion, it will bring you more satisfaction than if you pay half price for it when it is going out. Adapt the fashion in a practical way to yourself and your needs.
Fashion is a Mirror Reflecting the World
One may ask what relation can political passions or sympathies have with fashion? However, in history there are a lot of examples showing how a political idea or a political leader gave rise to a new fashion, a new style in clothing or a new way of wearing clothes. Fashion remembers both Bolivar’s hat and the Jacobins’suit. To this, naturally, we can add the facts from the unique history of our country: commissars’leather jackets, red scarfs or Stalin-styled field jackets… Fashion in totalitarian state mirrors, as a rule, the dominance of one idea, ruling out all others even if they have a bearing on the colour of clothing, the cut of suits or the length of skirts. Only recently our fashion began to mirror a person’s world-view: his attitude towards himself, his attitude towards the generally accepted norms, his taste, his self-confidence and claims.
Whatever a person puts on can be revealing and tell the public a lot about its owner. Without much difficulty and just by a type of clothing, we recognize prospering business people who wear elegant cashmere coats and tweed suits, young women “working on computers with a knowledge of English” dressed in black with golden buttons, young mafiosi in leather jackets or down-filled jackets depending on the season, and old pensioners dressed in the fashion of the time they worked. Fashion also mirrors the level of developments in science, new technologies and discoveries.There is a good deal of examples to illustrate this point: from capron and nylon to artificial leather and fur substitutes.
Today world fashion gives a plenty of ideas-for the poor and the rich, for those who like the latest fashion and those who prefer a conservative style. Fashion re-discovers bell-bottomed trousers (flares), riding breeches, narrow trousers and broad trousers looking like long skirts. It offers mini skirts and midi skirts, elegant tailored suits and sheep skin coats trimmed with coloured natural fur and what not! In this fashion people can find anything they want.
There is also one more problem. Fashion suggests that we ourselves should bring the objects in one ensemble or set and select them according to colour, style and our own taste