building a wardrobe, knitting & sewing

I was reminded of a couple of pointers on building a wardrobe from Chic Simple's Womens-Wardrobe and What Should I Wear.

• Survey and Assess
• Think about life needs. Currently that's work and home, so my clothing needs are for these 2 areas of my life - workdays and weekends
• Wear what I feel good in. I like to wear simple clothes to work. I'm mostly jeans and tshirts on weekends but I'm open to more fun dressing on weekends
• Dejunk and Recycle
• Clear out items that are thread bare,out-dated or no longer fit.
• Renew and Reinvest
• Shop my closet. Re-mix clothes to give me new outfits
• Renew. Refashion old items and make them new again 
• Reinvest. I bought new black pants and pencil skirts for work at a recent sale. I like to wear separates for work and these new additions go with everything and will last for many seasons. 

To start off shopping my closet and re-mixing my clothes, I came up with this "new" weekend outfit. I should re-mix more often because it is fun to create new outifts from my old clothes.

1. A racer back tank top that I shortened because the back hem was too long 
2. My crochet vest

By the way, knitting and sewing fits nicely into this whole scheme of building a wardrobe. Take this vest (below) that I am knitting now, for example. When it is done, it will fill a gap in my wardrobe. I need a vest to go over a plain tshirt on weekends. I should hurry and knit up the 2 front pieces as soon as possible.