I probably don’t have the details right but the concept was something like: A contest. Each contestant was given two empty shopping bags and told to go home and fill them. When they returned they would participate in a fashion show. The winner would win a month long cruise.
One woman returned with only one bag of clothes: tops, slacks, skirts, shorts, swim suits, etc. The other bag was filled with accessories: shoes, purses, belts, jewelry, and scarves.
Long after the other contestants had displayed all their outfits this woman just kept right on making more combinations. She won, of course.
How many shirts do you see in the pictures below?
One. How much room would those scarves take compared to seven more shirts? Can you imagine the variety if those scarves were tied differently? Maybe some as a belt? And how much more variety there would be if you added different combinations of necklaces, broaches, bracelets, earrings, belts, shoes, and purses with only three different bottoms? Maybe a pair of slacks, a pair of palazzo pants, and a pencil skirt? Or wore a swim top with each of those bottoms?
You really don’t need a lot of clothes to have a widely varied wardrobe. Do you?
TTYL,
Linda
ps. You do need a place to do laundry, though.
this is great!
so apparently American women are just now catching on to what French women have known and practiced for years?
supposedly it’s all about having just a few well chosen timeless clothes and lots of wonderful scarves.
I’m glad she won.
only I’ve never been able to leave the house in a scarf. for some reason they drive me crazy!
and…
I LOVE your p.s. line. LOL!
xo
I have to have lots of shirts. I look absolutely awful wearing scarves. When I was teaching, I would have loved to wear scarves, but how yucky can one person look in them. I was that person. You have done a super job with all your combinations.
You are so right!! One of the classes I put on for travelers in my working day was fashioned after Rick Steve’s packing. I sat in on a few of his classes, talked to him and staff. It was fun and well attended. Coordinating works and that’s how we could travel with one rollerbag and a small backpack. We didn’t need to check bags or wait at the other end.