What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life: Ageless Secrets of Style Book

I keep reading that this book is for women over 40, and while I'm not over 40 yet, with the way the years have been flying by since I've had children, 35 will turn to 40 in no time at all.

That being said, I don't think this book is just for women over 40. It's for any woman who absolutely hates to go into their closet to find something to wear. I am in the category. I used to wear the cutest most stylish clothes and then children hit. I became a stay at home mom. My closet is now full of t-shirts and yoga pants, with just a few other outfits that I like how I look in. Yet I hold on to the comfortable (both in how it feels and that it's comfortable mentally) rather than going out and finding what I look good in now that I am no longer a size 10. I have all my size 10's still in the garage. This book has made me admit that even though their is a slight chance that I may fit back into a size 10 again with a lot of hard work, my body has changed A LOT since I was 24. The things that looked good on me then most likely won't look the same on me now.

And there is no excuse to have a closet of clothes that I hate just because I am not physically where I want to be. I need to dress how I want to feel.

You know what I'm talking about. You put together the perfect outfit for the perfect occasion and your confidence shoots up about 1000 points.

You wear jogging pants and a t-shirt to soccer practice and stand next to all the mom's who just got off work and are business chic, you feel slightly dowdy.

I'm a mom. I'm not dead. I put all this time into my hair and make up and then have nothing to go with it.

I think after reading this book, reading her tips, her stories she shares, along with tidbits from other women, I am ready to tackle my closet and my dresser.

Pato is ready for me to tackle my closet and my dresser. He's been telling me for a long time that if I'd just get rid of the stuff I don't wear and the stuff that isn't very flattering, he would be more than willing to put up the money for me to go get a new wardrobe. I just haven't had the confidence to get rid of the old standbys. No longer. One of these days I shall have pictures of me cleaning out my closet. Pictures of stacks that can go to Goodwill or to a woman's shelter to help others. Something that looks awful on me might very well look fabulous on them!

Thank you to Kim Johnson Gross for writing What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life: Ageless Secrets of Style. I could relate with so much that she wrote. And I shall do it. I shall tackle the closet and it shall become a closet I won't be dread stepping into.