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Enjoy the process of learning. If you could ever get a complete handle over your wardrobe, dressing would become formulaic and boring. … Over time you’ll learn what tie width suits you best, how you like your shoes polished, the proper way for a lapel to roll, and a million other little things that become second nature faster than you’d think. And every time one thing becomes common sense, two new issues will pop up.

Will, A Suitable Wardrobe.

This is true whether you maximize or minimize, and a good reminder for me and you.

(via evolvingstyle)

A great reminder.

I often find it difficult to enjoy the process of learning something new because, whatever skill I’m trying to learn, I want to be good at it instantly. I want to be putting together sharp outfits without having to figure out what works and what doesn’t. There are small pleasures to be had from figuring out little things, like finding a shirt with the right shoulder width or fit in the chest, or taking something to be altered so it fits me better. But even so, what I’m wearing doesn’t match up to what I’m trying to create. Moreover, if I do learn something then, as the quote points out, two more things spring up, so it can feel like I’m not getting anywhere. There’s just a growing realisation of how much I don’t know. I have to remind myself that I dress bettter than I did two years ago and that if I keep at it I will dress better still in another couple of years.

Getting good at anything requires time, and an awful lot of patience.

(Reblogged from evolvingstyle)

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