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clothes accumulation
Aug. 27th, 2024 08:18 amI had the thought of removing some stuff from my side of our joint closet before Arthur comes to clear out *his* side, so that it would be obvious what needs to go. It would probably be obvious anyway, because while there might be a small overlap in flannel shirts, everything else is different. I've already told him I'm going to move the hand weights (over many years we each bought some, but never bought a whole set together. They should be easy to sort out).
Then I had the thought that maybe I should go through all my closet clothes for real and try to force myself to donate the ones that I will never wear again. Is it time to develop a personal style? I claimed a couple of months ago that my style is "soft and baggy and not itchy."
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/840107.html
So it should be fairly easy to make myself remove all the things that are tight and scratchy, right? Even my go-to-funeral clothes meet my usual comfort criteria, just with fewer stains or faded spots or wrinkles.
We'll see. In the meantime, awake for hours after sleeping for six, nothing has been accomplished.
One of the lessons learned from the estate sale at my parents' house was that vintage clothing was a big draw for customers. I have an attic closet of literal vintage clothes (some of them as much as 100 years old, some from the 1970s, some in between). Rather than waiting until I die and making Flo deal with them, it might be good to find a reputable store or two and divest now. But really, bedroom closet first.
A garment I want but apparently can't have:
That's a screen shot of the back of a windbreaker (?) being worn during a Stray Kids concert in Seoul on Saturday evening. Thanks to Youtube user AtotheJone97 for putting up a fan cam video of one of the encores, so that I could see it clearly. I can't be the only person who wants it. Maybe I don't understand Capitalism, but if I were a company with a group setting out on a world tour, I might have clothing copies ready to sell for not just a few official tour items, but of many garments the group members wear onstage.
Possibly it will come later. Probably it's better not to waste cloth speculating that way.
There are knock-off companies that do make copies of clothes "as seen in" dramas or concerts that are so fast and cheap that they are probably made by exploited workers. I don't want that.
Then I had the thought that maybe I should go through all my closet clothes for real and try to force myself to donate the ones that I will never wear again. Is it time to develop a personal style? I claimed a couple of months ago that my style is "soft and baggy and not itchy."
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/840107.html
So it should be fairly easy to make myself remove all the things that are tight and scratchy, right? Even my go-to-funeral clothes meet my usual comfort criteria, just with fewer stains or faded spots or wrinkles.
We'll see. In the meantime, awake for hours after sleeping for six, nothing has been accomplished.
One of the lessons learned from the estate sale at my parents' house was that vintage clothing was a big draw for customers. I have an attic closet of literal vintage clothes (some of them as much as 100 years old, some from the 1970s, some in between). Rather than waiting until I die and making Flo deal with them, it might be good to find a reputable store or two and divest now. But really, bedroom closet first.
A garment I want but apparently can't have:
That's a screen shot of the back of a windbreaker (?) being worn during a Stray Kids concert in Seoul on Saturday evening. Thanks to Youtube user AtotheJone97 for putting up a fan cam video of one of the encores, so that I could see it clearly. I can't be the only person who wants it. Maybe I don't understand Capitalism, but if I were a company with a group setting out on a world tour, I might have clothing copies ready to sell for not just a few official tour items, but of many garments the group members wear onstage.
Possibly it will come later. Probably it's better not to waste cloth speculating that way.
There are knock-off companies that do make copies of clothes "as seen in" dramas or concerts that are so fast and cheap that they are probably made by exploited workers. I don't want that.
