And there's all 30 of my outfits! Just taking a preliminary look through all of them, I'd say that my favorites are definitely things that I put together for work, rather than casual outfits. I've always said that I have a harder time with casual outfits, but here I think it's because I limited myself by picking out mostly pieces that would be appropriate for work, and would kind of work okay for casual wear. This was my mistake in clothes shopping for years until I could actually afford to build 2 separate (but sometimes overlapping) wardrobes.
I think there's definitely been a great value in this challenge for me in realizing how versatile some of my pieces are (or aren't). When I was younger, I remember my mom buying me "outfits" as opposed to clothes, so I had it in my head for a long time that some pieces could only be worn with certain others. I've started to break myself of that over the past few years, but not being allowed to have specific fall-back outfits has really helped me break that mentality for good.
A couple other important things that I saw were, as many of you commented yesterday, that pinks and purples are definitely my colors! Blue has always been my favorite color, but it's clear which colors look best and are the most versatile to me. The other thing is that dresses and skirts are clearly my friend! My most favorite outfits from the challenge involve my black skirt or dresses. I really missed all of my other skirts and dresses in this challenge, and I have ideas about different ways to wear all of them now, rather than pairing them with the same exact cardigan or cami like I would have before.
I had wanted to put together some numbers about this, but I just don't have it in me today. I had a pretty rough day at work yesterday (can I say, Stylenation, that getting your lovely comments periodically throughout the day really cheered me up!) so I'm giving myself a little mental health day today. Doing anything with percentages or spreadsheets or anything like that is too close to work for me. And I think the pictures speak for themselves.
Fellow 30 for 30ers, what have you learned? Are you excited to get back to the rest of your clothes?
If you're itching to do another challenge, how about the No Repeats Challenge?
(Note: Cynthia's been having issues with her site lately, so if you can't access her link, you can read more about it here at TCC by clicking on "No Repeats Challenge" underneath our banner)
(Note: Cynthia's been having issues with her site lately, so if you can't access her link, you can read more about it here at TCC by clicking on "No Repeats Challenge" underneath our banner)
