We would all love to have the resources to change our wardrobe every 3 months, to go into the new season utterly refreshed and ready to embrace the style icon that lives inside us all. I don't know about you but my biggest obstacle to this is time and I shop for a living! Not to mention part of the joy of the changing of the seasons is the rediscovery of old favourites, the snuggly jumpers and sumptuous heavy drape of a full coat and as long as the moths have been kept at bay there is no reason why these 'big ticket' items cannot be used for many years to come. Buy well, buy once.
This will in the long run save you money and also give your wardrobe a core from which you can build. Adding trend pieces and items that inspire you, that ultimately make your clothes a joy rather than camouflage. Spending the majority of your money on the pieces you wear most often just makes good sense. If you get the balance right it will lift your entire wardrobe to the level of your strongest piece, get it wrong and you diminish the worth of all your pieces.
By buying a classic item, whenever you use it people will comment. For example 10years ago I bought a pale pink Mulberry Bayswater bag.
So yes I spent a fortune and at the time I didn't have Mulberry money to throw around but
everytime I pull it out - Joy! Also on a cost per wear bases, I've done pretty well. Spending the same money on countless, tops or trousers.
Short term - great, but they would have been thrown out long ago.
Choosing something exceptional will give you pleasure and no one will ever ask which season it is from.
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