Oh look it's January.

So it's a bit late for New Years' resolutions, and New Years' resolutions are kind of crap anyway (already broke mine by forgetting to take my B12 pills in the evening =D). But I do want to get more vigilant about this sort of thing. So here are some changes I hope to make in the coming year:

I will not feel guilty about where my clothing came from.

This relates to the materials themselves (no animal products), the circumstances under which the things were produced (no supporting companies that source from factories where people are probably working in unsafe conditions), and who gets my money (so in addition to Walmart, pretty much anywhere else that sells clothing new and doesn't meet my standards. I will try to avoid Goodwill and the Salvation Army* but continue to go there before looking for newly-made things.) I will continue to buy as much used as possible (regardless of where the garments were originally made because finite money/time to research -__-;), and when it's too impractical to buy used I will buy from smaller companies that manufacture their goods within countries that have decent labor laws--preferably companies that use recycled material as well. And in the rare instance when I cannot work within these standards and avoid spending more than I can afford or being wasteful, I will not mentally beat myself up over it.

My wardrobe will be cohesive and distinct.

Just because I refuse to buy into trends doesn't mean I don't care about style. The opposite, in fact--I care about it so much that I keep posting about it and documenting my outfits and so on DX. I like looking good--and by "good", I mean presenting in a way that results in my repeatedly glancing at any mirrors that present themselves because my outfits are simply that aesthetically pleasing to me (hi, I'm a narcissist =D.) I also want my wardrobe to be distinctive and customized to suit me personally--everything must fit. Black clothing comes into play here. It also has to be practical (this is coming from someone whose definition of practical includes petticoats and platform boots when they don't get in the way, so I guess what I really mean here is it can't hinder me and it will be determined by what I want to do on a given day, not the other way around.) By "cohesive" I mean every piece can be worn with many (if not all) other pieces, with few outliers. By doing this, I hope to keep my wardrobe smaller and have less physical property to worry about. Efficient and effective. I've already started this by hemming my pants (actually I did this a long time ago--still need to get to my t-shirts) and replacing buttons on things that have buttons that don't go with my other things and hope to weed out even more superfluous pieces in the coming year.

*They do a lot of good things from what I hear as well as the things that irritate me (piss-poor wages for some disabled employees and occasional GSRM discrimination, respectively). But that doesn't mean I'm willing to forget the things I disapprove of when there are other secondhand stores whose operators don't pull that shit (to my knowledge, at least -__-).