Over the past couple of weeks, you’ve been quietly paying attention.
What you wore. What you avoided. What felt good. What felt… a bit “meh”. What made you tug, adjust, sigh, relax or feel energised.
This part of the experiment isn’t about solving your wardrobe or jumping straight to what to sew next. It’s about zooming out and letting the patterns surface on their own. Connecting some dots and noticing what keeps showing up, as well as what doesn’t.
Today, Courtney and I are sharing our own reflections from this stage. Not as examples to follow, but as windows into how differently this process can unfold. There is no right way to do this or no right answers.
We asked ourselves the same questions you’ll find in the Playbook, and we’re letting the answers be a little messy, a little unfinished, and very rooted in our actual lives right now. We hope it gives you permission to do the same. We hope it makes you realise we don’t have it all figured out either and building a wardrobe we love is a work in progress for us too.
If you haven’t done this section yet, you can simply read along and notice what resonates. If you have, you might like to compare notes. Either way, think of this as a pause point. It’s a moment to listen more closely to what your wardrobe has been quietly telling you.
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