I'm a first semester freshman in college. I love checking out style blogs,but their suggestions are way too expensive. The funny thing about this is that a large amount of them are written by college students! The concept that sparked this blog was for it to be a blog to show people how to build a wardrobe that they'll love for the rest of their life. I'm slowly building my own wardrobe and I want to share something with you.
Let's make an outfit.
Let's say...
Trench Coat
Chambray Shirt
Dark Jeans
Dark shoes
A fairly hideous outfit,but I want to prove a point. Following most blogs this outfit would look like this:
Common Trechcoat: $500
Common Chambray Shirt: $100
Common Jeans: $200
Common Shoes: $200
Perfect,rounded it off well. Now understand this. I like quality clothes,and sites like these will defend themselves by saying you're paying for the quality,and craftsmanship. My only problem with this is that you would spend $1,000 on only 1 outfit! Well I won't be unreasonable,you don't have to have alot of EVERYTHING. So lets dive into what a wardrobe would cost.
2-3 coats eh 200-500 each. Let's say about $700 on coats
10 shirts (undershooting to help THEIR case) about 80 each- Ohhhhh $800 on shirts
Pants,Oh boy- I'll be kind and say $500 on pants
Shoes- $1,000
Wait a sec,what about watches,and bracelets and hats.
Because a watch can be expensive I'll count about $1,000 for accessories.
Now for some simple math.
OK! It's the end of the season and you just spent $4,000 on a small wardrobe. Now let's make this realistic.
Most people i know get a new coat about every season,so I'll keep the coats at about $700/year
shirts,I know you need more than 10 $400/year
Pants, these can actually stick around so $100/year
Shoes,you know these come and go $300/year
Accessories.......brace for impact $500/year
Now....until we start shopping for Bill Gates,we might want to slow down. I do not work for this site,but shopstyle.com is so great at battling the prices of these other super expensive sites. Go there,look for what you want,and I will cut your wardrobe from thousands a year to probably about a thousand,and still GOOD QUALITY!
