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Finding Me Again! – A LIFESTYLE WARDROBE PLAN

Once upon a time I could go through the pattern catalogues and select 7 – 10 patterns, make them up and it would see me through an entire season and into the next (even my children follow the Wardrobe Plan Rule – three bottoms, five – seven tops, plus a jacket and a dress). So what has changed and why has this wardrobe plan been such a challenge? Is it lifestyle, or is it age, is it a changing figure shape … or have I just lost ME somewhere along the way? I actually think it’s the latter!

Like so many other working mothers, I spend most of my time either working or being a mother, and unfortunately ‘myself’ gets put at the bottom of the list of

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