Getting dressed daily, how hard can it be?

Fashion is something I will think of as being personal and it's a form of self-expression that shows who you are without uttering a single word. Everyone has a certain way they dress and it gives you a hint of what their wardrobe looks like. I mean, if you see a person who dresses corporately every day in long-sleeved shirts and ties, you can already picture their wardrobe full of things like that.

I don't put a lot of attention into fashion as I find it too much of a hassle to dedicate time and effort into it but these days, I tend to pay a bit more attention and put more effort into my dressing. Back in my high school days, whenever I had the option of buying a new pair of jeans or just buying a new gadget, I wouldn't even think twice before splashing money on the new gadget, I just love technology a lot 😁

But as time on, I started putting much effort into looking good but still not to the level some people have taken it to, like some of my Classmates. Now, back to the main question; Is it difficult for me to get dressed? Well, it's never difficult for someone who doesn't have a lot of options in the first place to get dressed but still, even people with not so many options find it a bit hard to pick something to wear, so what's my secret? It all boils down to planning.

Let's go back a couple of years when I was younger (I think around 14 years ago). I noticed I was having an issue with my dressing back then and what was this issue? Repetition. You see, I will just be in church on some Sundays and it will just occur to me; "Didn't I wear this same shirt last Sunday?", and for sure I did. I was seeing a problem because I couldn't remember the clothes I wore the previous Sunday, so I came up with a simple solution; roaster.

I created a clothes roaster that featured trousers and the corresponding shirts arranged in order and I followed the roaster for a long time until I didn't need to look at the roaster again to know which clothes came next, I had a mental picture. As time went on, new clothes were bought and old ones discarded but I didn't need to write a new roaster, I just updated the mental note I had. So, what about now?

For now, I have basically become a pro at this and subconsciously plan out the clothes I will wear for the next few days. Right now, I already know what I'm going to wear on Friday and when it's time to get dressed, I just pull out the clothes I need, I don't think much about it. Again, this is very easy because I don't have lots of clothes, so my options are quite limited. Now imagine if I have lots and lots of clothes, it will be hard to use this same method and I might just end up wearing some sets of clothes every week while the others sit in the wardrobe.

Since I already plan out my clothes for the week, getting dressed is very fast and within 2 to 3 minutes, I'm done. But what happens if a pair of clothes I have in mind to wear on a particular day has something wrong with it and I can't wear it? I always have backup clothes. I have the main clothes I wear to classes every day of the week then I also have backups that I don't wear often and mostly wear when one of the mains is dirty or too rumpled.

You know in football where you have the main squad playing a match and other players are sitting on the bench; the substitutes who mostly enter the match when one of the other players is tired or injured and can't continue playing, that's the same thing with those backup clothes 😁 think of them as plan B. So, even when something goes wrong and I can't wear the clothes I planned out, I don't have to think much about my next option, I just grab one of the backups and I'm good to go.

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