Good morning,
After Mayhem and Drama left for school this morning, I grabbed my coffee and sat down to check whatever it is that we all check on the computer. I do this most mornings to delay doing exercise. Interestingly I found that I sold a full length pre owned Fox coat at midnight to a woman in Kazakhstan. Midnight here, noon there. She paid instantly with her pay pal account. It is 20C there right now which is 68 F. Shes getting ready for a normal Kazakhstan winter which averages about -4.
This got me thinking about how small this world is and what else might be in her closet. This coat that will travel for weeks to get to her, I am hoping she will wear it well and maybe even share it or pass down in her family. This makes me smile. Have you every thought about what is in your family's closets, and I'm not talking about skeletons? We can tell a lot about ourselves and our families by what's behind that door. Although my wardrobe these days consists of running pants, sneakers, jeans and fleeces, I do secretly lust for the clothing you see on the first 25 pages of Vanity Fair Magazine and, in addition, a Fabulous Place to Wear Said Items. If I were the bold, test your kids kind of mom, I might sport these fantastic garments to Mayhem's Lacrosse practice, but then I would have to endure a huge fit of uncontrollable embarrassment.
Chanel, Prada, Gucci you know what I mean. There will never be an appropriate place for me to wear these items...but a girl can dream and drool right?
My mother, from whom I've inherited the love of beautiful things, has a closet full of these soft, well cut pieces of spun confection, most of which, for as long as I can remember, she has never paid retail for.
So in a sense, my obsession with ethereal, gorgeous luxury/couture goods runs in my bloodline, in addition to wanting to sell them and share them at attainable prices.
Existing in the caverns of her closets are 70s gowns with patent leather cut outs and crazy Pucci Prints that will forever be imprinted in my memory (as well as the frosty lipstick and eyeshadow!). Many of these outfits I remember vividly from old photographs, and I can even recant to whose parties they were worn.
So I ask you, not only what is in your closet, but what's in your family's closet? Some of it you need to keep because they connect you to memories like mine (By the way I would be doing my mother an injustice by failing to mention that these gowns still fit her). Others, not so much.
The pieces that you can live without, you may want to consider selling on ebay, making room for that current fabulous piece of perfection in a fall collection that you have been pining for. Or you may have your eye on more square footage in your closet, which we all know is like adding to our highly taxed and coveted real estate.
Peace Out!
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