Zen and the Art of Shopping

For awhile I was running around, telling everyone that I didn't want anything for fall in terms of shopping, that the whole ladylike thing turned me off and whatever. But I guess I lied: I thought I had reached a perfect state of Buddhist detachment about fashion, but then all those photos of boots, coats, jackets and such must have affected my brain. (Not to mention that saying that you don't feel like buying anything for fall when you write a fashion/style blog is affronting an annoying moral superiority, much in the way of a starlet or model airily professing, "Oh, I never diet or work out. It's my metabolism...and all those pills and drugs I scarf down every night.")

I'm trying that very disciplined thing of buying very few items, but everything must be high quality. Is it working? I guess it depends on your definition of success...I've only managed to buy one sweater so far, a black silk ballet sweater. I keep contemplating various items (a cashmere sweater, some slouchy boots), but contemplation is as far as it goes since I keep musing, Is this quality? Am I going to wear it for the new few years? Am I going to be sick of it after this season? Am I making some poor lady slave away in an Indonesian sweatshop for long hours and minor ducats? The whole mental process puts me in a state of consumptive paralysis, and eventually I just end up in a cave, emptying my mind and chanting "You do not need clothes, you do not need clothes" as I slow my heartbeat to the rhythm of a turtle dancing. Just kidding...I just end up falling asleep after all that strenuous planning, and when I wake up all the stores are closed.

Posted by Kat in Shopping
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