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5 Reasons to do the Year Without Clothes Shopping challenge:

1. Financial. You'll save a small fortune! Think of where else you could put your money if a big chunk of it isn't going on clothes (and shoes, and bags, and accessories)
2. Practical. Use the clothing you have to its fullest. Most women wear only 20 - 30% of their wardrobes. Let's get you inspired and ideas-upped to use closer to 100% of yours
3. Emotional. Who needs all that guilt associated with spending too much on clothes (and shoes, and bags and accessories)? Clear your emotional clutter (well, at least some of it)
4. Eco-environmental. Clothing production (dyes, pesticides, child/slave labour) is costing the earth more than we can collectively afford to pay. Don't add to that cost (hey, here's where all that guilt could go!)
5. Creative. Put your brain and body to a better use than becoming a clothes shopping champion. And for the serious clothes lovers, we will be exploring how you can use what you have in your wardrobe more creatively.

What is ‘Shop Your Wardrobe’?

Shop your wardrobe is an attitude – it’s a way of thinking and feeling about your wardrobe that has you appreciating and using what’s there, not wishing for things that you don’t have.

You can cultivate a Shop Your Wardrobe attitude overnight, or at least fairly quickly – the second part of Shop Your Wardrobe can take longer.

Shop your wardrobe is a working wardrobe – it’s a wardrobe filled exclusively with items that that make you look good and feel even better. It’s being conscious about every purchase you make, so any new item coordinates with many existing items, and pay their rent in your wardrobe.

A working wardrobe is full of items that suit your body, support your lifestyle, and express your mood. A working wardrobe can take a while to develop and get right, years sometimes. But it’s worth it.

Once you have the know-how, you’ll never make a wrong purchase again, and you’ll never look into your wardrobe and lament “I’ve got all these clothes, but nothing to wear!” Your working wardrobe may have 16 items in it or 66 or 1066 – it’s not the size that counts, it’s whether every single piece is working for you.

When you have a Shop Your Wardrobe attitude and working wardrobe to match, you’ll feel like you’re.... shopping in your own wardrobe!