In this video, I'll share my system that I used to overhaul my own closest, get rid of stuff, and figure out a personal style.

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Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share my system that I used to overhaul my own closest, get rid of stuff, and figure out a personal style. In this first part, I'll share some tips that I got from reading the book The Curated Closet by Anuschka Rees. In Part II, I will cover the system I developed using an app called PM Pro.

In trying to prune down my belongings, Marie Kondo-style, I found myself totally overwhelmed by my closet. I have some tendencies that make it difficult to have trim, stylish closet. First of all, I’m cheap — meaning I tend to prioritize quantity over quality. I really don’t like to shop — except at Marshall’s where it frankly feels more like a treasure hunt. And even then I have a outside limit of a couple of hours before I’m done. I’m super reluctant to get rid of things AND I don’t like to spend much mental energy on what I’m wearing.

BUT I do feel better when I look put together, so the challenge for me was trimming my closet into only things I like AND having a plan for choosing new clothes in the future. I needed a wardrobe system. And if you've watched any of my videos, you know I’m a sucker for systems of any kind.

I went looking for inspiration. After all, if someone has done all of this work before, why reinvent the wheel? I discovered this book, The Curated Closet: a simple system for discovering your personal style and building your dream wardrobe by Anuschka Rees. If you are at all interested in this topic, this book is definitely worth reading. Anuschka Rees is the real deal — she is a fashionista and style guru. She went way deeper in her book than my little project needed, so I borrowed a bunch of her ideas, but mostly developed my own sped-up and simplified system. I will probably do summary video on her book later, but for now, I’ll give her credit for many of these foundational ideas.

So, my problem was that, pre-system, I could reach into my closet, pull something out randomly and there would be a greater than a 50% chance that I wouldn’t want to wear that article of clothing — it doesn’t look good on me, it feels weird, or it’s kind of ugly. What I needed, was not just to get rid of the stuff I didn’t like (although that would certainly be a good start), but ultimately to have a style strategy to make better decisions and prevent myself from having an out of control closet again.

Wardrobe Cognitive Shifts
So, first off — let’s go through some of the required cognitive shifts supplied by Anuschka Rees:

* Style does not equal Fashion - don’t confuse style with fashion. Style is personal, fashion is what the designers have decided is hot this year. Just because bohemian peasant blouses are in this year, doesn’t mean that you have to shift your style to include them. If you think about icons like Audrey Hepburn with her little black dress and Elizabeth Taylor (queen of diamonds), they were notable because they DIDNT dress like everyone else. They knew their own personal style and cultivated that. You CAN include new ideas and pieces that are in style, but you definitely don’t need to run out and buy a ton of stuff each season in order to be stylish.
* Keep only things you like - This is straight from Marie Kondo’s philosophy. Life is too short to keep OR wear things that don’t suit you, feel weird, or you don’t like. If it doesn’t fit right — get rid of it or have it tailored. That last piece of advice comes from . . .

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