Style on Wednesday
Summer special How to get dressed in five minutes (and still look amazing)
Seventeen minutes out of 24 hours – is that such a terrible amount of time to spend getting dressed? If most of that is frittered on indecisive dithering or fruitless searching for long-since buried items, if you only have an hour to get yourself and various other dependents out of the house, if you’re ruffled or stressed by the process, or dissatisfied with the end results, then yes. It is.
I can get dressed in five minutes. More to the point, most of the time I’m happy with the results throughout the day. That may not sound like a monumental lifetime achievement, but consider the degree to which ease, practicality and a feeling that you look the best you can for the job in hand contributes to a sense of well-being. A skirt that constantly rides up through the day, a shirt that gapes, a jacket that’s not quite good enough to take you into a management meeting, or shoes that rub your feet into mutinous slabs by lunchtime can seriously damage your day. As with all streamlined routines, preparation is required. This means systematic (re-)organisation of your wardrobe from the roots up.