H&M:ssä käynnin jälkeen olen ollut jokseenkin fiksoitunut ajatukseen uusista vaatteista ja/tai asusteista, vaikka järki sanookin toista. Iltaisin olen klikkaillut milloin minkäkin nettikaupan ostoskoriin skarppeja, moderneja kenkiä, mutta sulkenut sivustot viimeistään siinä vaiheessa, kun olisi pitänyt valita maksutapa. Olen jättänyt kivat kengät ostamatta, koska oikeasti haluaisin ostaa unelmakengät enkä halpoja tämän hetken hätään kelpaavia. Jostain ihmeen syystä budjettini ei vain veny Simone Rochan 900 euron kenkiin, vaikka päälläni seisoisin.
Viime päivinä olen lueskellut muiden blogipostauksia kuluneesta vuodesta. Olen hahmotellut omaa (munkin varmaan pitäisi kun kaikki muutkin), mutta äh, totuus on, etten pidä uudenvuodenajasta. En pidä uudenvuoden pippaloista, en raketeista enkä kalenterinlehden kääntämiseen liittyvästä symboliikasta. Mennyttä vuotta muistelee liian helposti valikoiden ja kuratoiden, ihan kuin elämän saisi siistiin pakettiin. (Ei sitä saa, ei minun elämääni ainakaan.) En pidä uudenvuodenlupauksista enkä -aikeista, joista emme kuitenkaan pidä kiinni. En pidä ajatuksesta aloittaa uusi vuosi puhtaalta pöydältä, koska ei mitään puhdasta pöytää ole olemassa. Turvallisemmalta tuntuu jatkaa vanhasta niinkuin parhaiten osaan: päivä kerrallaan, tehden oikeilta tuntuvia asioita.
Joustan kuitenkin vähän, mitä kuluneen vuoden analysointiin tulee: seuraa tilinpäätös vuoden 2016 vaateostoksista, mihin pakotan itseni aina tähän aikaan vuodesta. Maltilliselta ostosvuodelta tämä on tuntunut, mutta lista ostetuista vaatteista on pitkä kuin nälkävuosi, mikä yllättää minut joka vuosi.
Vaatekaappini sisältö on kokonaisuudessaan hyvinkin erilainen kuin vielä vuosi sitten, mistä iso osa menee elämänmuutoksen piikkiin. Helsinkiin muuton yhteydessä kannoin paljon vaatteita kierrätykseen. Olen hankkiutunut kokonaan eroon toimistovaatteistani, joille minulla ei ole enää nykyisessä arjessani käyttöä. Aiemmassa istumatyössä levinnyt takamukseni on kaventunut vuoden aikana niin paljon, että olen joutunut luopumaan lähes kaikista housuistani - kroppa on muuttunut niin paljon, ettei housujen pienennyttäminenkään tuntunut onnistuvan. Vanhojen hameiden kanssa on ollut parempi tuuri, ja onneksi mahdun taas muutamiin suosikkihousuihini, joita en saanut hilattua vuosi sitten reisiä ylemmäksin - kannatti siis vuosia sitten säästää ne parhaimmat, minulle aikoinaan räätälöidyt.
Olen ostanut kuluneen vuoden aikana paljon kaikenlaista ihanaa: vanhaa Kenzoa ja vintage-Vuokkoa, useamman puseron ja käsintehdyn neuleen, nyörilliset mustat saappaat, punaisen tekoturkistakin, mustan 1920-lukua imitoivan villakangasmekon, maailman mahtavimmat Dries Van Notenin röyhelöhousut, viininpunaiset nyörinilkkurit, kukkamekon, pari neuletakkia, puhvihihaisen kirjaillun farkkutakin, kaksi Paul Smithin paitaa, satavuotiaan hailakanvihreän hatun, mustat pellavahousut, vihreät silkkihousut, harmaan vekkihameen, yönsinisen silkkisamettimekon, pari vyötä, kaksi nahkalaukkua, kaksi turbaania, yhden pellava- ja yhden silkkipyjaman, Globe Hopen tikatun pusakan, kasan erinäisiä koruja ja All Saintsin ohuen villakangastakin - kaikki second handina tietenkin. Uutena ostin käytännölliset talvikengät, ruman mutta järkevän toppatakin ja työkäyttöön tarkoitetun viskoosineuletakin, joka nyppyyntyi parissa viikossa - terve muistutus siitä, miksi ostan vaatteeni mielummin käytettyinä.
Määrällisesti uusia vaatteita ja asusteita tuntuu kertyneen aivan mahdottomasti. Paljosta olen hankkiutunut eroon kierrättämällä tai kirppiksellä myymällä, mutta epäilen, että minulla on vaatteita yhteensä ihan yhtä paljon kuin Helsinkiin muuttaessani, ellei enemmänkin. En nimittäin muista enää, olenko varmasti luopunut vähintään yhdestä vaatteesta aina, kun olen ostanut jotain uutta. Rahaa kaikkeen on palanut sen verran, että olisin voinut ostaa ne Simone Rochan kengät. (Tosin vaikka olisin säästänyt kaikki pennoseni, en tuskin koskaan voisi oikeuttaa yksittäistä 900 euron kenkäostosta. En vain voisi.)
Mitä tästä taas opin: no, sama lauluhan se on näemmä tänäkin vuonna. Ostan ihania vaatteita ja vastavuoroisesti kierrätän tai myyn pois sellaisia, jotka eivät tunnu enää omilta tai jotka eivät enää istu kunnolla tai sovi elämänvaiheeseen. Tyyli elää, vaatekaapin sisältö muuttuu, vaatteiden määrä pysyy edelleen korkeana. Vaatehuone pursuilee liitoksistaan, mutta eipä ole koskaan sellaista päivää, etteikö olisi mitään ihanaa, omannäköistä päällepantavaa. Mukavaa on sekin, ettei minulla ole enää erikseen työ- ja arkivaatteita: töissä minulla on univormu, johon pukeudun vasta työpaikan pukuhuoneessa. Aamulla saan siis vetää päälle tasan tarkkaan sellaiset vaatteet kuin itse haluan, mikä on ihanaa. Kaikista rakkaimmilla, vähän erikoisemmilla vaatteillani on enemmän käyttöä nykyisin. Kiitos 2016 - olit mielenkiintoinen, uudistava, nahkojaluova vaatevuosi!
Ever since my visit to H&M a few weeks back, I've been thinking about buying some new clothes and accessories. I've been somewhat obsessed with the idea of buying a new pair of shoes in particular, and I've been clicking myself to various online shops and browsed cool shoes after cool shoes. I've been close to buying a pair or two, but I've chickened out the last minute. I've not bought cool shoes because what I'd really want is a pair of amazing Simone Rocha brogues that are pretty much everything I've ever wanted in a pair of shoes. Did I mention that they cost 900 euros? For whatever reason they are really not within my budget...
In the past few days I've read a lot of blog posts that have to do with the past year and the advent of 2017. I've considered writing something similar myself, but I just can't bring myself to it. I don't particularly like the concept of New Year to begin with. I don't care for fireworks, New Year Eve's parties or the change-related symbolism that lies behind New Year. I don't feel the need to curate my past year into a neatly arranged package - life isn't like that, or mine isn't, anyway. Life is always more complicated than the sum of its various parts. I don't care for making promises or predictions about what's to come, either. I really don't care for the idea of starting the year anew. There is just something about it that doesn't sit well with me. For me, the best thing to do is to continue life the best I know how: take it one day at a time, do things that feel right.
I'll make a little leeway though, when it comes to packing up 2016: I'm tallying up the past year's clothing purchases, like I always do this time of year. What has felt like a peaceful style year has actually involved a whole lot of change and a fair amount of buying new things.
Over all, the contents of my wardrobe are a fair bit different to what they were a year ago, and a lot of it has to do with the bigger life changes that took place in January. I donated a lot of my clothes to charity when we moved to Helsinki. I got rid of all of my office clothes, because I don't have the need for them anymore. My new on-my-feet job has reduced the size of my keister so much I've had to let go of almost all of my trousers - my trouser size has actually changed so dramatically that having my old trousers tailored hasn't made much sense. I've had much better luck with skirts, and thank goodness I have kept some of my really nice tailored trousers from before - I can fit into them again - yay!
I've bought awesome things this year: some old Kenzo and vintage Vuokko, some blouses, handmade sweaters and a couple of cardigans, a pair of black lace-up boots, a coral red faux-fur coat, a black wool-mix dress that references the 1920s, the most awesome ruffled Dries Van Noten trousers, burgundy lace-up ankle boots, a flower-print dress, a puffy-sleeved, embroidered denim jacket, two Paul Smith shirts, a hundred-year-old hat, a pair of black linen trousers and a pair of army green silk trousers, a gray pleated skirt, a dark blue silk velvet dress, a couple of belts, two leather bags, two turbans, one linen and one silk pyjama set, a quilted bomber jacket by Globe Hope, a pile of various pieces of jewelry and a gray All Saints double-breasted coat - all second hand, of course. I've bought a couple of things new: a pair of rational but not very pretty winter boots, an ugly but necessary padded coat for the unpleasant seaside winter weather, and for work, a black viscose knit cardigan that started to pill in less than two weeks - this is why I buy second hand!
Well, as you can tell, I've bought a lot of clothes. Even with everything that I've recycled or sold at flea markets, I have a feeling that I might actually have more clothes now than I did right after we moved to Helsinki. I can't remember if I have let go of something old when I've bought something new every single time - it is possible that I haven't. I have spent enough money on clothes that had I saved every penny, I could have bought those Simone Rocha brogues - not that I could ever justify spending 900 euros on a single pair of shoes though.
Lessons learned: it's the same old, same old, really. I buy beautiful clothes, I recycle old ones. My style changes and evolves, and I keep having a lot of clothes. My wardrobe is always more full than not, but there isn't a day when I don't have beautiful clothes to wear. What has changed is that it is lovely to have a work uniform that I change into in the locker room before my shift starts, which means that I get to wear whatever I want when I get up in the mornings. I don't have to worry about work-appropriate clothes at all, which feels like such a luxury. I love having the freedom to dress however I want. I feel like my nicest clothes get a lot more wear these days than they did a year ago. Thank you 2016, for having been an interesting, invigorating style year!
Mitä tästä taas opin: no, sama lauluhan se on näemmä tänäkin vuonna. Ostan ihania vaatteita ja vastavuoroisesti kierrätän tai myyn pois sellaisia, jotka eivät tunnu enää omilta tai jotka eivät enää istu kunnolla tai sovi elämänvaiheeseen. Tyyli elää, vaatekaapin sisältö muuttuu, vaatteiden määrä pysyy edelleen korkeana. Vaatehuone pursuilee liitoksistaan, mutta eipä ole koskaan sellaista päivää, etteikö olisi mitään ihanaa, omannäköistä päällepantavaa. Mukavaa on sekin, ettei minulla ole enää erikseen työ- ja arkivaatteita: töissä minulla on univormu, johon pukeudun vasta työpaikan pukuhuoneessa. Aamulla saan siis vetää päälle tasan tarkkaan sellaiset vaatteet kuin itse haluan, mikä on ihanaa. Kaikista rakkaimmilla, vähän erikoisemmilla vaatteillani on enemmän käyttöä nykyisin. Kiitos 2016 - olit mielenkiintoinen, uudistava, nahkojaluova vaatevuosi!
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In the past few days I've read a lot of blog posts that have to do with the past year and the advent of 2017. I've considered writing something similar myself, but I just can't bring myself to it. I don't particularly like the concept of New Year to begin with. I don't care for fireworks, New Year Eve's parties or the change-related symbolism that lies behind New Year. I don't feel the need to curate my past year into a neatly arranged package - life isn't like that, or mine isn't, anyway. Life is always more complicated than the sum of its various parts. I don't care for making promises or predictions about what's to come, either. I really don't care for the idea of starting the year anew. There is just something about it that doesn't sit well with me. For me, the best thing to do is to continue life the best I know how: take it one day at a time, do things that feel right.
I'll make a little leeway though, when it comes to packing up 2016: I'm tallying up the past year's clothing purchases, like I always do this time of year. What has felt like a peaceful style year has actually involved a whole lot of change and a fair amount of buying new things.
Over all, the contents of my wardrobe are a fair bit different to what they were a year ago, and a lot of it has to do with the bigger life changes that took place in January. I donated a lot of my clothes to charity when we moved to Helsinki. I got rid of all of my office clothes, because I don't have the need for them anymore. My new on-my-feet job has reduced the size of my keister so much I've had to let go of almost all of my trousers - my trouser size has actually changed so dramatically that having my old trousers tailored hasn't made much sense. I've had much better luck with skirts, and thank goodness I have kept some of my really nice tailored trousers from before - I can fit into them again - yay!
I've bought awesome things this year: some old Kenzo and vintage Vuokko, some blouses, handmade sweaters and a couple of cardigans, a pair of black lace-up boots, a coral red faux-fur coat, a black wool-mix dress that references the 1920s, the most awesome ruffled Dries Van Noten trousers, burgundy lace-up ankle boots, a flower-print dress, a puffy-sleeved, embroidered denim jacket, two Paul Smith shirts, a hundred-year-old hat, a pair of black linen trousers and a pair of army green silk trousers, a gray pleated skirt, a dark blue silk velvet dress, a couple of belts, two leather bags, two turbans, one linen and one silk pyjama set, a quilted bomber jacket by Globe Hope, a pile of various pieces of jewelry and a gray All Saints double-breasted coat - all second hand, of course. I've bought a couple of things new: a pair of rational but not very pretty winter boots, an ugly but necessary padded coat for the unpleasant seaside winter weather, and for work, a black viscose knit cardigan that started to pill in less than two weeks - this is why I buy second hand!
Well, as you can tell, I've bought a lot of clothes. Even with everything that I've recycled or sold at flea markets, I have a feeling that I might actually have more clothes now than I did right after we moved to Helsinki. I can't remember if I have let go of something old when I've bought something new every single time - it is possible that I haven't. I have spent enough money on clothes that had I saved every penny, I could have bought those Simone Rocha brogues - not that I could ever justify spending 900 euros on a single pair of shoes though.
Lessons learned: it's the same old, same old, really. I buy beautiful clothes, I recycle old ones. My style changes and evolves, and I keep having a lot of clothes. My wardrobe is always more full than not, but there isn't a day when I don't have beautiful clothes to wear. What has changed is that it is lovely to have a work uniform that I change into in the locker room before my shift starts, which means that I get to wear whatever I want when I get up in the mornings. I don't have to worry about work-appropriate clothes at all, which feels like such a luxury. I love having the freedom to dress however I want. I feel like my nicest clothes get a lot more wear these days than they did a year ago. Thank you 2016, for having been an interesting, invigorating style year!
I feel exactly the same as you do about new year Tiia but I do wish you and your's a very good 2017. Thank you for all the style enlightenment over the past year. You have been a big influence on my wardrobe and the way I buy clothes.Nothing compares to the thrill of finding designer garments in a charity shop!! 👒
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you too, Susan! Always nice to hear from you, and thank you for your lovely words. Agreed re: finding designer garments in charity shops - after I wrote this post, I found a Prada silk knit and a super cute Christian Lacroix stripy knit for 6 euros each! :)
DeleteI love your descriptions but also wish there were a few more pictures in this post! The pictures you have posted here are so lovely. Wishing you a good 2017, even if it is an arbitrary construct.
ReplyDeleteOh I wish there were more pictures, too... The darkest time of the year is always so challenging for taking photos, but to tell you the truth I have also been a little lazy... I haven't taken any outfit pictures in a long, long time, even though I have worn really nice clothes! I'll try to change that in the near future. :) Happy 2017 to you as well, Radostin! :)
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