Season Of Sale

This year was a year I challenged myself to another level. While I was working on my Dear 2017 project of being awesome, creating memories for future me and many more, I was also working on saving up to renew Caliph's life. Caliph has been a great companion to me, sheltered me through rain and shine in every situation and giving him up to the scrapyard did not seem like the ideal situation. I had to save more and train myself to mainly recondition my mind. This was an absolutely huge challenge for me.

In doing that, I worked on what I could give up and what I knew is a huge MUST. Kindly note, my definition of MUST here is not necessarily a need and it differs from other people's definition of MUST. 

First and foremost, in dealing with this, I knew I was going to have a hard time not getting any dUCk scarves entirely, therefore, I rationalised the situation. I do not need any new colours from any of the basic range. What I knew was a must-have were the limited editions. Instead of getting all the colours, I convinced myself that I only needed 1 or 2 of the colours for the limited edition print designs. This rationalisation certainly helped a lot. 

I stopped getting myself new clothes altogether. By clothes here, I am referring to tops, bottoms, dresses and even shoes. This was exceptionally hard for me. With the rise of the online shopping and the convenience of making mobile payment, using various types of payment gateway, I loathe being on cold turkey. Some of my friends were tremendously nice, they knew my 'need to save' mission and presented me with some stuff to make the mission bearable. This happened only during my birthday month. I did not accept it initially, but the next thing I knew, the postman was at my doorstep. I felt too blessed every single day and they just made my birthday month even more beautiful.  

After a while, it got easier to refrain myself from committing any online shopping. It gave me a different as well as fresh perspectives on the various fashion scenes in the Muslimah and non-Muslimah committee within the region. What looks good on people, what works, what can work, how can one make a piece of clothing work regardless of the label. I started looking at my own wardrobe and thought to myself, how many times do I regularly wear all my clothes? I do have clothes which barely see the sun, some of which do not even step out of the house and still had their price tag on before they go off season, or be given away to others. Yeah, I am that brat you love to hate. 

In saving up for Caliph, I started learning to utilise more of my ready-to-wear (RTW) clothes (which are readily available in my wardrobe) more often, mixing and matching them up here and there. Unfortunately, I did not do this as often as I would like to until I had to renew Caliph. This was another blessing which I supposed I have constantly overlooked, maximising the potential of what I already have.

After Caliph was renewed, I got used to not giving in to my desire for online shopping. Who would have thought, the cold turkey did work! What is even better, I was styling myself up, looking good, feeling good and saving at the same time. 

What rubbed off on me after that was that not only was I refraining myself from buying impulsively, I started looking out for what I deem as season of sale clothes. Clothes which were off season but still ever green to the vast number of ladies out there. What kind of clothes could work well regardless if one wears the hijab or not. I experimented and put aside a budget and tried to maximise that amount, which is best spent during the season of sale, the best to its possibility. There are some group of ladies out there who do not really care about labels. The clothes look good, it's on sale, they are sold and the next thing you know, they have already hit the checkout button on their smart devices. 

I constantly revisited that certain pieces of clothing which I cannot let go since I first got them. They just fits me so well and on days when all else do not look good on me, I just run to it, have it on me and out the door I go to seize the world. Do we all not relate to these moments in life?

Now, there are a whole bunch of other things needed to be saved for; a potential home, renovation works, future family projects and way too many more to be listed. I decided that the season of sale will be my best friend for the rest of the remaining year. I also wanted to revisit the love for so many styles which looks great average ladies such as myself. I might extend this till next year but let me not get ahead of myself.

naimefied look

hijab: The Yummy dUCk in Kuih Koci

top: MimpiKita

pants: Mango