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Upgrade Your Business Wardrobe. Five Favorite Items for Spring
by Julia Zirpel
You only need five items to upgrade your spring business wardrobe. Fashion expert Julia Zirpel explains which ones to pick.
Julia Zirpel is the co-founder of thewearness.com, an onlineshop for ethical fashion and used to work as a fashion director for several women’s magazines.
Every year in May I take my winter coats and thick-knitted sweaters to the attic and take the time to go through my spring wardrobe.
I go through every single piece individually and consider how I could combine it with others.
Interestingly, with the distance of a few winter months, I think of quite different styling possibilities than the year before. So much of it feels almost like new!
But there are also always a few things I can’t dream anything up for. Before I get rid of them completely, I hang them up for a year with my winter clothes. Not seldom do I fall in love with them again after one or two years.
The rest I sell once a year at the flea market or I take them to a second-hand shop, always hoping that the things will find a new owner who will carry them for a long time to come. Because, when you talk about sustainability, you’re talking about “lifetime extension”.
After this wardrobe check, I then think about what I really want to buy – pieces in which I want to invest and which should accompany me in the coming years. These should be items that fit into my wardrobe and offer me new styling possibilities. This prevents bad buying decisions and corpses in wardrobes. My goal is always to wear each item as long and as often as possible. Such investment pieces can be a bit more expensive.
