So, I’ve been wearing the same thing everyday for a very long time now.
Over the years and especially the past several months a lot of my friends & colleagues seem
to be asking similar questions.
Today’s article is on how I started wearing the same thing everyday and why I’ll continue
to do so and hopefully share a glimpse of what that’s like.
Now, when you start venturing into a capsule wardrobe culture, people tend to notice and
remark.
I’ve consolidated the most common ones that I’ve experienced.
Doesn’t it get boring?
Don’t you like change?
Don’t you like variety?
Are you a part of a cult?
Ew!
That’s disgusting.
Now I won’t deny that when I was younger, and on the verge of getting into this, these
did affect me quite a bit but not anymore… and for good reasons.
But before I get into that, let me share some of the
benefits of wearing the same thing everyday.
Decision Fatigue:
In decision making and psychology, decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality
of decisions made by an individual after a long session of decision making.
Decision fatigue may also lead to consumers making poor choices with their purchases.
You waste less time deciding what to wear.
You waste less energy early in the morning on frivolous things.
And consequently you’re less stressed because you’re not debating whether what you’re
wearing is too formal, too casual and things like that.
Mental peace.
Now mental peace is the actual reason I started wearing the same things everyday, not the
other benefits.
I didn’t even know about them till I was halfway through my uniform culture.
So this is the experience I’ve been having.
You wear a certain combination of articles and then one of them looks slightly off, so
you go and change.
But then that combination throws off the look again or maybe the particular thing you want
is wrinkled or gone for a wash.
Now this didn’t happen with me everyday, but it was a quite regular occurrence for
me and I hated it.
It was unnecessary and it was irritating.
So about 6–7 years back, I remember wearing this yellow T-shirt college and I loved it,
so much so that I wore it again in a couple of days.
Immediately this friend of mine went, “Now that you like it, you’re going to wear it
again, is it?” and another went “Dude, don’t repeat your clothes!”.
Now this experience was annoying but the mental peace I got by having a simple start to my
morning was a giant compared to this annoyance.
Now of course I didn’t immediately switch overnight, it took years for me to reach where
I have with my wardrobe.
Eventually I started purchasing clothes in bulk, but I was still buying from different
brands.
I knew it wasn’t enough and I wasn’t completely there yet.
Fast forward to about 6 months back, in the month of March, I remember asking my friend
on which brand has the best black T-shirt, and he went — Aristobrat.
So I bought one and I loved it; the way it fit and felt.
Immediately the next week, I threw around 40 of my old T-shirts and
got around 10–12 black tee’s from Aristobrat.
And the mental peace has been beyond, there’s a sense of de-clutter in this small aspect
of my life.
And that’s how it goes.
I hope I’ve intrigued you enough so that you try it as well.
Find out what’s comfortable for you and what best represents you, the whole point
is to be you and to be comfortable after all.
I genuinely believe that everyone has a color palette; mine consists of black, brown, grey,
dark blue, and hints of white & gold.
Even if you’re someone who likes variety, I would suggest you give this a try to know
both the worlds.
I did and it’s changed my life for the better.
I would love to know what you think about this lifestyle, and if you have tried it,
I would love to know about that experience as well.