Last weekend I helped my mother give about a quarter of her closet away to charity, simply by holding up each item and saying, "Do you wear this, and does it make you feel great?" It's wildly efficient, and I've been trying to apply the same maxim myself. Someone said to me today, "I recognized you by your [ensemble]." "And you always will," I replied. A little later, three generations of seamstresses insisted, as they delightedly chattered away over bolts of fabric, measuring tapes and more flourishes than I knew what to do with, that I must find gold or silver slippers to wear with the gown. Hm, I was thinking glass...
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