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Yep. I love stripes. I love dresses. And that is why I have more than one striped dress in my\u00a0newly extremely-pared-down\u00a0<\/em>closet. I have reduced my clothing items by at least 50%! and it let me tell you, it makes getting dressed in the morning incredibly easy and actually enjoyable. I can now highly recommend selling or giving away a lot of clothing and only keeping the stuff you absolutely love. So what if I’ll be wearing a lot of the same outfits over and over again. If they are outfits I love, I’ll feel better wearing them, and frankly I don’t care if anyone smirks,\u00a0that dress again???\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n So now that I have significantly<\/em> less clothing, I have noticed a real pattern in this wardrobe: lots of neutrals and not much color, but big on patterns and simple pieces that can be mixed and matched quite easily. I’m hoping to keep it that way by not buying anything unless is it high-quality and will survive many years of waxing and waning trends. In other words, if I can picture myself wearing something 5 years from now, I will save for it. If not, I don’t need it. Also, sticking to a strict weekly budget has helped me avoid impulse-buying. I have a couple of things I have been saving up for, and if I come across something else, I always have in the back of my mind,\u00a0do I love this item more than the Hudson Tie-Back Ankle Boots<\/a> I have been saving up for over the past 2 months?\u00a0<\/em>And you know what? The answer is always, always, no.<\/p>\n Hat: thrifted; Striped Songbird Dress: Madewell<\/a>; over-the-knee socks: JCrew<\/a>; boots: Anthropologie (3 years ago– but if you are in the market for some round-toe gray boots,\u00a0these<\/a> are cute!)<\/em><\/p>\n Enjoy your Wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yep. I love stripes. I love dresses. And that is why I have more than one striped dress in my\u00a0newly extremely-pared-down\u00a0closet. I have reduced my clothing items by at least 50%! and it let me tell you, it makes getting dressed in the morning incredibly easy and actually enjoyable. I can now highly recommend selling … Continue reading “Dress That Mama: The Other Striped Dress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[76,95],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style","tag-costuming","tag-lauren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"DSC_0017\"](\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8195\/8093920847_ac48fa6fdc_b.jpg\")
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