weeks 36 and 37 archive looks: from light to dark

i try not to buy the exact same pieces of clothing in different colour ways, but, sometimes, despite best efforts, i do end up with the same pieces of clothing in different colour ways. having the same pieces of clothing in different colour ways helps when i have become really comfortable wearing certain outfits and the thought of having to construct new outfits is just a bit much. i can keep wearing the same outfits but in a different colour way. i do not have to step out of my comfort zone. at the same time, because i am wearing a different colour way, i can feel like i am wearing something different. (not that there is anything wrong with wearing the exact same thing over and over again -- i have done it many a time.)

i am wearing rundholz dip 125. also featuring the nina bag by olend and a nike x melitta baumeister sneaker.

weeks 34 and 35 new looks: third colour

i purchased a few items from the rundholz dip 126 collection in sky. the ones shown here. (and a pullover. not shown here.) the first purchase was the boiler suit. no explanations needed for that one (i hope) -- a boiler suit being one of my favourite pieces of clothing. then i bought the denim pieces. the cropped jacket i bought to pair with the boiler suit. the trousers and other jacket i bought to complete the denim collection in sky. i suppose i could (should) have resisted doing that since i already have it in amber and linen. but i did not resist. the past two weeks i have been wearing light coloured denim (various degrees of bleached denim) (from my rundholz dip archive), not something i have always been fond of doing. but it felt so natural. i pulled out these new pieces at the tail end of those two weeks. wearing them also felt natural. so i am not sorry that i introduced a third colour into my rundholz dip 126 collection.

i am wearing rundholz dip 126.

weeks 34 and 35 archive looks: sometimes recognizing love takes time

the occasion of the rundholz dip 125 collection was the first time i bought bleached denim pieces. some pieces were bleached to a baby blue shade and some were bleached to a beige shade. it was not love at first sight with these pieces, in particular, the completely bleached out pieces, but there was some sort of enduring connection to them. i pulled some of the most bleached denim pieces out recently and i found wearing them was so comfortable, so right. i guess sometimes it takes time for me to recognize love.

p.s. showing my sneaker head side again. it first appeared last summer. this summer i have homed in on my favourite brands/collections and started focussing my collection of sneakers on those. maybe i should introduce more of my collection here?

i am wearing rundholz dip 126 (blue pullover), rundholz dip 125 (remaining clothes and orange and griege sneakers) and adidas japan sneakers.

week 33 new looks: cropped jacket

i love a cropped jacket. but incorporating it into an outfit is not always easy for me.

i am wearing rundholz dip 126.

weeks 32 and 33 archive looks: some other brown clothing

this is the first time this spring/summer that i have dipped (i just love saying this) into my rundholz dip archives. these are two pieces from rundholz dip 120 -- the only other spring/summer rundholz dip collection that i have in a brown colour palette (assuming amber is a brown colour palette). these two pieces are two of my favourite types of clothing -- an overall/coverall/jumpsuit and a dress.

i am wearing rundholz dip 125 (shoes) and rundholz dip 120 (clothing)

weeks 31 and 32 new looks: adopting multiple colour palettes

amber was my chosen colour palette for rundholz dip 126. i tried to get all the pieces that i coveted in that colour palette. with some pieces, i was not able to do that, for a variety of reasons, including that they did not come in that colour palette, the pieces sold out completely in that colour palette and the pieces were no longer available in my size in that colour palette. so i opted to get them in the linen colour palette. to date, having two colour palettes per season was really an afterthought based on circumstances. i did not go into a season thinking i would have two colour palettes and what they would be. i picked one colour palette for the season before the buying began. a second colour palette was selected during the buying phase for the express purpose of allowing me to buy coveted pieces unavailable to me in the first colour palette. picking that second colour palette "on the spot" (so to speak) has not always been easy. so based on my experience this season (and i think the immediately preceding season), looking ahead to buying for the upcoming fall/winter season, i am definitely thinking ahead of the buying experience of what my two colour palettes for the season will be.

i am wearing rundholz dip 126 (all clothes and footwear, except the shoes in the last photo). the shoes in the last photo are rundholz 117.

weeks 29 and 30 new looks: what is harder for me?

lately, i have been thinking about whether the style that i have now settled into makes it more difficult for me to get dressed. for some, it may be more difficult to put together an outfit of multiple layers, more so if the layers are of different colours or prints or textures. for me, i think it is more difficult to be minimalist and monochromatic. if i put on just one piece of clothing, say a dress, the silhouette of the dress, how it falls on my body, the features of the dress, all these things are so much more visible to me and it feels like i have less to play with to satisfy myself of my look. the same holds true if i put on two or three pieces of clothing all of the same colour (and more so if they are of the same fabric). if there is less for my eye to look at, there seems to be more pressure to make sure that the only thing the eye can look at really pleases me. 

i am wearing rundholz dip 126.