Wear Mastery Quiz #1

What could be improved in this outfit or what does not work?

Think about size, length, shape, material, pattern, texture, color, overall impression?

I wore this outfit when I went to image consultant Jennifer Butler's Follow-up workshop and she pointed out one thing! 

Wear Mastery Blog Update

Sorry for the long pause.

When I wrote the last entry, I had just submitted my final edit of my German book on Wear Mastery and those thoughts felt like a big exhale and like the sum of the whole process. For a while I had nothing to add. 

This blog will eventually be transferred to the German and English book websites. The book will be released in Germany in the end of July and I will be traveling for the next two months.

In the meantime, Wear Mastery Magic continues in my life, I hope in yours too…

Just in the last week I manifested four clothing items new for free, or at a second-

hand price, which had been on my wish list for 6-24 months. PERFECT!

Small alterations are necessary on two items, shortening and taking an elastic band out of one. EASY! As I am embarking on my long journey to Europe, I will proudly tote only one big suitcase, which comfortably holds all my clothes and more and one carry-on suitcase. 

Thank goodness for those great see-through-divider bags

Check out the WITHOUT AND WITH photos below.

 

Longing to see You

I desire to see You and I am looking forward to witnessing how you make your essence visible.

I wish to see You unobscured by awkward layers, sizes, colors, patterns, prints and I don't want to walk by not noticing you in your cloak of invisibility. I love it when I notice that you see me, my self shining forth, naked and adorned simultaneously.

Wear Mastery Strategies: Dyeing Clothes

In the process of cleaning out my closet I have found pieces of clothing, which were too pale, like the wrong skin color beige or too bright white on me. If everything else worked (the style, material, size) I dyed them darker into some of my colors. It was a satisfying alchemical experience and felt like baking my own bread.  The colors, especially navy and burgundy shades extended the use of the pieces of clothing. I did consider the chemicals in the dye and the pollution involved and reasoned that I would only use dyes sparingly. My girlfriend dyed a velvet silk scarf for me attempting navy and it ended up to be the color of my eyes. What a precious gift.

Throughout history some ingredients used by artists to paint or dye clothes were more valuable than gold. Victoria Finlay wrote Color. A Natural History of the Palette, in which we can read about the sources and stories of the beautiful colors used to enrich our world. 

Energy, Love, Attention instead of Effort

Every day we have the choice of what and how much we are doing with our appearance. Even if we simply cover our body with fabrics, we always create an outfit. I appreciate it, when the people I encounter have put some thought and effort into the way they look. It feels and looks like 'more' and therefore radiates abundance and love. The word 'effort' doesn't feel as inspiring as putting 'energy' and 'love' into my appearance. And creating an outfit doesn't have to be an effort at all.

A little energy, attention and love will show and influence everyone we will encounter and our own state of mind in a positive way.

Beauty

There is only beauty behind me.

Only beauty before me.

Cree Song

According to Dionysus , beauty is order: symmetry with supreme lucidity.' Beauty being archetypal order, is begotten intellectually, not calculated empirically, and the language of symbols is consequently precise, not arbitrary - a matter of truths not tasks. In beauty is found the harmonious symmetry between being and knowing, love and knowledge.  

(A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom. Whitall N. Perry, page 660.)

Just white

Today I am wearing all white. This happens very rarely, actually only when I attend a WHITE TANTRIC YOGA event, part of the Kundalini Yoga path, which has enriched my life for decades. Yogi Bhajan recommended his students to wear white because it automatically enhances your aura, the electromagnetic field by 20 inches, as it reflects the light. Therefore it increases your radiance. From 19-23 years I was wearing white exclusively. I was living in a big city and it actually felt really great and it was easy.

There are many different shades of white and today I see once more that white looks great on some people and just like any other color overpowers or undermines others. A general recommendation is not to wear a white, which is whiter than your teeth or the white of your eyes.

I started wearing more colors and even black, when I moved to CA and HI. It probably had to do with the weather and taking years to figure out American washing mashines. When I had a baby I stopped wearing white. 

What is your story with 'white' clothing?