6 Expert Tips for Weekly Outfit Planning
If you want to save 15 minutes every morning, make life easier and effortlessly look your best everyday, then weekly outfit planning is for you! Below I have compiled my best tips and tricks to make this process easier than ever.
1. P L A N
Always do your weekly outfit planning on Sunday evenings, right before the week starts. If Sundays don’t work for you, then find a day that does and stay consistent with it. Finding that magic day that fits your schedule is key to making this practice become just another addition to your weekly routine.
2. P R E P A R E
Preparing for the week ahead guarantees a successful week of outfits. Do this by reviewing your calendar beforehand and having it handy while creating outfits that are styled to perfection for your upcoming activities and events.
Secondly, if there is anything we know about living in Oklahoma, it is that our weather tends to be all over the place; 90s, rain, snow and tornados all in a weeks time (okay maybe that is dramatic but we have gotten close to that ha!). All that to say, ensure you have the weekly forecast pulled up on your phone so you can prepare your outfits for whatever weather that week has in store.
B O N U S T I P
Another great resource to have readily available is your fashion Pinterest board to spark your outfit creativity. You can also check out my Fashion Passion board which has over 2,000 pins of fabulous outfits!
3. C R E A T E
Picking out any outfit can be stressful, there are so many choices that it can easily becomes overwhelming. One tactic I teach my clients is to start each outfit with just one piece you love. Easy enough, right?! Whether that is a pair of pants, shoes, a fun top, a chic blazer, a dress or even a statement necklace, just find that special piece to spark your creativity. You will then build your outfit around this fabulous item. With that piece, you will then follow the graph I created below to finish creating your fabulous outfit.
Once the outfit is created, document each completed look by snapping a quick picture. Make sure all the accessories and jewelry is included in the photos. Once you have styled and taken a picture of all your outfits, compile these photos in an album on your phone. This makes it easy to access every morning.
4. S T E A M / I R O N
It is time to make them look pretty and 100% ready to throw on when it is time to go, therefore saving you even more time in the morning. Having a wrinkle free outfit is one crucial way to guarantee your look is polished and put together, and who doesn’t want that?! One thing that makes this step 10x easier is if you have a steamer. This can be done in half the time it would take to iron. If you don’t have a steamer, I highly recommend investing in one. It will change your life! This is the one I use and always recommend to my clients. If you aren’t a steamer person, an iron will do the job just as well!
5. S E T A S I D E
Once your weekly outfits are wrinkle free and ready to go, hang them together and in order in a separate locations it’s easy to grab and go in the morning (the front of your closet, on a clothing rack, in your laundry room, etc.). Since you can’t necessarily hang up your accessories, this is where the photos you snapped will come in handy. You can reference back to these in case you forgot any of the important details. Another way to make this more visually appealing and add an extra level of organization is to use clothing separators for your daily outfits. You can do s by labeling the separators with the days of the week. I have found a fabulous article that has 23 Easy To Make DIY Closet Dividers that you can make yourself.
B O N U S T I P
If you don’t have the space to set weekly outfits aside in your closet or you don’t want to disrupt the organization of your closet, no worries! Thanks to the album you created with all the photos you snapped of your outfits in Step 3, you can simply use this as a reference every morning.
6. R E M E M B E R
This last step will help make your outfit preparations easier in the long run. Every morning before you leave, get in the habit of capturing a quick selfie of your outfit. Although you will have a picture of the outfit laid out, having the outfit on so you can see exactly how it looks on your body is crucial. Find tips for doing this here. This helps ensure you don’t repeat an outfits too often, it will give you inspiration on days when your outfit creativity level is low, and it ensures a fabulous outfit is never forgotten.
B O N U S T I P
A great resource for documenting these photos is the app Smart Closet. it gives you an effortless way to log every outfit and the date you wore it. You can even leave notes so you can easily remember how much you loved or didn’t love parts of your look.