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[alexseanchai]

There was something on MSNBC a little while ago about a bunch of people who experimented (are experimenting?) with spending a month as though they each own only six items of clothing. Not in an attempt to achieve empathy with people who actually own only six items of clothing, like the thirty-hour famine the local Catholic church has the confirmation kids do. In an attempt to prove that excessive shopping is curable, because excessive shopping is apparently based on the assumption that other people notice your clothes and this experiment disproves that assumption.

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[azurelunatic]

Does this include underpinnings and socks? Does each sock count separately? Or are they just talking outerwear tops and bottoms? I ... actually live very close to as if I only had three blouses and three skirts, because those are my favorites, they are all black, and the washing machine is not large. Plus some of the extra skirts are getting ratty and it's a pain to find inexpensive long black skirts in my size.

If it's underwear too, that brings me down to one day's worth of clothing, provided a pair of socks counts as one item. (It's the shorts under the skirt that does it.)

[alexseanchai]

The woman being interviewed, the list was something like blazer, blouse, skirt, leggings, jacket, slacks.

[yourlibrarian]

No, it doesn't count underwear, shoes or accessories.

[yourlibrarian]

Someone posted an article about this yesterday but also about the 1 year abstinence (from buying clothes) plan. That one made more sense to me. I don't get this one at all.

The problem is that the experiment doesn't disprove the assumption at all, although it may disprove the fear that most other people care much about what you wear.