"Synergetic" Wardrobes

Sorry every so often making up a word is the only way to explain a theory without having a title longer than the post I'm thinking of writing.  So today I met a new client, a really lovely lady who's wardrobe would have made any general proud (I was a little intimidated by it), everything was colour coded and matched to a corresponding item.  It made me feel a little redundant, as that is the role I usually fulfill, it's quite literally my job, so I asked myself and her why she had hired me.  After a brief conversation, I started to understand.  She had become a slave to her own organisation and and had stopped seeing the clothes and now only saw them as outfits, leaving her with a small percentage of the potential of her wardrobe, as well as being in the trap of always feeling she was wearing the same items in rotation.  She had used personal shoppers before and they had sold her 'outfits' that she put together and kept together or left in the bag as she didn't know how to wear them.  So I got to do my favourite thing in the world today, teach someone how to play with clothes until her number of choices tripled before her eyes.

Synergy is a term used to describe when the addition of component parts, lead to a result that is significantly larger than those parts, it was described to me as 1+1=5.  Which is exactly what the most effective wardrobes do.  A few years ago DKNY were selling the idea that the perfect wardrobe, needed only 9 pieces of clothing in order to contend with the needs of any modern woman.  I seem to remember Gok Wan saying something about 24 pieces including accessories.  However both of them were selling this idea on the notion of buying these pieces, I think you will find you already own them, in most cases.  You just need someone to show you where they are in your wardrobe.  By looking at clothes with new eyes, you will see the potential in them and in essence be able to get more from them.  Trust me when you put a top with a different pair of trousers than you would normally, people will ask where your 'new top' is from.  Clothes do take on colour and as a result will appear different to those around you.