31 Days {Day 14} – Change Your Style

I’ve been feeling really bored with my closet these days. I open the closet door every morning and this is what I see: jeans, t-shirts (long and short sleeved), sweaters (mostly cardigans with one or two others thrown in) and one pair of dressy pants. Not only is there little variety in the type of clothes in my closet, there is little color variety too. The jeans are all blue. The shirts and sweaters are almost all neutral, with the occasional red (my old favorite) or green (my new favorite) thrown in. It’s all practical and useful, but it’s also pretty boring.

There are probably two reasons for my boring wardrobe. First, I’m a habitual person. Which means that once I find something that works, I stick with it. Not only do I buy the same types of clothes, but it also means that I tend to buy them from the same handful of stores. So everything in my wardrobe starts to look the same because, well, it kinda is. Same T-shirt in three different colors. Same sweater, one in V-neck and one in crew neck. Not super exciting.

The other reason my wardrobe is boring is that I don’t have a lot of reasons to buy different types of clothes. I’m a stay-at-home mom, so my “work” wardrobe is…jeans and t-shirts. And then, when the “work” day is over and evening comes, I’m still wearing those jeans and t-shirts. And guess what…the weekend comes along and I’m running the kids around while wearing…wait for it…..jeans and t-shirts!

It’s been like this for some time now, but for whatever reason it’s started bothering me lately. And so, with the arrival of Fall, I’ve started making an effort to branch out a little bit when it comes to the clothes I wear. For me, branching out doesn’t mean wearing 4″ stiletto heels or micro mini skirts. But it does mean that I’m making an effort to check out a few different stores. And I’m making an effort to at least try on some different styles and look for some different colors. For my first purchase, I decided to look for jeans (yes, predictable) but in a different color (all my jeans are blue, remember?) and style (all my jeans are boot cut). Guess what I bought! I traded in my boot cut jeans for a new pair of straight cut jeans. And they are a beautiful, dark shade of…green. Okay, I guess the color is predictable but come on folks…colored, straight cut, jeans!

Baby steps, my friends…baby steps.

What’s your style? What do you do when you want to change up your style a bit?

This post is part of the 31 Days Series-Choose Your Change. Did you miss a day? Visit the 31 Days Welcome page for links to each day.