I am attempting to upgrade my wardrobe. I think of categories of clothing for people my age and status in life and I think of them as being these progressing from low fashion to higher fashion:

1. bag lady-self-explanatory

2. casual -presentable with SOME attention paid to color and texture coordination, wears only classic styles

3, nice casual - presentable and coordinated including jewelry, handbags, shoes; classic styles in some expensive fabrics and makes

4. Sophisticated casual - fashionable and coordinated in all accessories. Expensive fabrics and makers in classic stles with some trendy expensive items thrown in to be fashionable and modern

I am currently at Bag Lady level. I want to move onto “casual “level for every day where with occasional forays into “nice casual. “

I will never be “sophisticated casual.” That’s fine, I don’t want to be that.

I’m out of town at a garden club event so I killed time one evening at the local mall. I actually went into a clothing store and bought clothes in a mall store. I can’t even remember the last time I did that, more than a decade. I bought clothes at the store “H&M. “They have cheap clothes. Cheap cheap cheap.

oh, but I have to tell you my new dressing strategy, which is making it easy to buy clothes. I’m buying items only in these colors: black, white, ivory. Do you know how easy it is to breeze through a store if you’re only looking for a limited color palette? It’s super easy!

Eventually I will branch out to add in tan and camel colored pieces, and after that, two accent colors in warm shades.

So this is my clothes shopping strategy which I can employ at Goodwill as well. Oh, believe me I haven’t given up shopping at Goodwill. I LOVE Goodwill.