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The curated closet, a simple system for discovering your personal style and building your dream wardrobe, by Anuschka Rees

The curated closet

by Anuschka Rees

a simple system for discovering your personal style and building your dream wardrobe

"With so many style and shopping options, it can be difficult to create a streamlined closet of pieces that can be worn easily and confidently. In The Curated Closet, style writer Anuschka Rees presents a fascinatingly strategic approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the ideal wardrobe to match it, with style and shopping strategies that women can use every day,"--Amazon.com

Part 1: The Basics -- The Curated Closet philosophy -- Getting started: Define the status quo and set style goals -- Part II: Discover Your Personal Style -- What your clothes say about you -- Discover your style, phase I: Get inspired -- Discover your style, phase II: Experiment and fine-tune -- Putting it all together: Your style profile -- Part III: Build Your Dream Wardrobe -- Closet detox: The complete guide -- How to build a wardrobe that fits your life (not your fantasy life) -- Closet composition 101 -- Selecting a versatile color palette -- Working with outfit formulas -- Business hours: Tweaking your wardrobe for work -- Overhauling your wardrobe: A step-by-step road map -- How (and when) to build a capsule wardrobe -- Become your own best stylist -- Part IV: The Art Of Shopping -- How to shop like a conscious consumer -- Decision time: When to buy and when to keep looking -- How to stop overspending and make the most of your budget -- Assessing garment quality: a beginner's guide -- Practical pointers for finding clothes that fit well -- Maintaining and updating your wardrobe throughout the year: A timeline