Arabella's Intervention 2021

A disorganized wardrobe may reflect a warped understanding of reality. Chaos in wardrobe is a symptom of something that affects many aspects of a person’s life.

December 2021, “Fix yo Shit” Pages 56-57

Are you tired of dragging your jeans through dogshit? Of looking frumpy and disheveled? Of sagging unintentionally? Fly embarrassment? Do you feel constricted or limited by your wardrobe? Captive? Like a slave to your laundry? 

Like you’re not living up to your fullest potential? Being misunderstood? Fear of growing old, accelerating aging, dying? Fear of discomfort? Not being who you truly are? Do you even know who you are? How does that person dress? What does that person even look like? Fear of life passing by unnoticed?

Do you walk up to people with confidence, feel well fitted within your environment? Connected? Do you long for a more glamourous, curious life, full of intrigue?

Where does your wardrobe allow you to go? How freely do you move through environments and actions? Do you have agency? Does your wardrobe serve you, or do you serve it? Which makes decisions about your life? Permissions of your wardrobe. Carrying it around using it manically, living in a pathological relationship with it?

Are you safe? Do you feel choked by and defenseless against the outside world, for which clothes serve as primary defense against, is that why your wardrobe is so chaotic?

Do you have the proper attire? Are you protected? You wear protection and are protection, do your clothes allow for optimal range of motion and access to tools. Does it protect from the elements, the sun? What are you really prepared to handle? Are you the kind of person which someone would turn to for assistance? Would you be prepared for the circumstances you create? When the time arises, preparation and sacrifice mean survival. 

Fight or flight. You only have yourself and what’s on you. Are you the one that survives? Is your wardrobe functional?