Debt Free Millennials: maximize your closet with YourGirlChase

Hey guys, if you are looking for ways to make the most out of your closet without spending any money, stick around. I have your girl Chase with me here today and we're going to talk about how to make the most out of your closet. Hey, what's up? It's Justine with Debt Free Millennials. I have Perla with your girl Chase back on the show with me today. It's so good to see you again. You know, the first video was so much fun. I had to come back. She just had to make an appearance y'all. So don't forget to check out your girl Chase on Instagram and check out her blog at yourgirlchase.com. I'm going to drop the links below so make sure you hit this girl up because she knows all fashion finds and without freaking out your budget. It's just awesome. So we're talking about how to make the most out of your closet. This is something you've done and now you're going to teach me and everybody else how to do this because I suck at shopping and I suck at looking at my closet and trying to figure out how to make really fun pieces and look hot like you. So how do I do this? You know, it's not easy. No, you'd be surprised. I feel like people have like these hidden treasures in their own closets but they just don't know that they're there. So let's just help everybody out. We don't need to spend a lot of money. You'd be surprised what you can find in your very own home. Hell yes, I love that. Okay, so what can we start doing? Well, I think one of the best tips that I have is to opt for timeless styles. I feel like the basics go very far. Like, don't just buy something because you see it online and you think, oh my god, I'm going to look like my favorite Instagram girl. No, look like yourself and opt for things that are going to give you the most bang for your buck. Okay, so you're talking about more like timeless pieces versus fast fashion that we might find at Forever 21. Right, so just look for things that are cut well, things that are going to make you feel great and look amazing at all times of the year. Are there color palettes that we need to stick to? I would say neutrals are king, especially if you want to get the most for your money. My favorite neutrals to stick to are obviously black and white but charcoal gray is a great one. Navy blue is very underestimated. Even a good maroon like the top that you're wearing, that's a perfect neutral that looks great with so many styles of jeans, so many different colors of skirts. Trust me, your shirt is amazing and you're going to wear it for many years to come. Yay! Okay, I'm actually doing something good and I didn't even mean to. I literally put this shirt on today and was like, whatever, we're going to record. So you've got the gray, rockin' the gray, I've got the maroon, so these are good neutral colors that we can wear over and over again. Yeah and they're very universally flattering for all skin tones. If we switch shirts right now, we would look just as great. You've got more of a fair complexion, my complexion is, I'm not even sure. You've got that California glow going on. Right? Yep. What else can we get out of our closet? I would say another thing to look for are key investment pieces. I'm talking about things that you might have to spend a little bit more money on now, but that are really going to save you a ton, tons of money in the long run. So I'm talking about things like quality denim, get those amazing jeans that you see at maybe like a Nordstrom or Bloomingdale's that, yeah, they're a little bit more pricey. Maybe they're not the most affordable out there, but they're going to last you and they're not going to fall apart in two weeks. I have a horror story where I bought a pair of H&M denim jeans, I wore them on a date, sure enough, they fell apart on me and it was the most embarrassing day of my life. Oh my gosh, what happened? So I was on a date with a very nice young man, who shall remain unnamed, and when I got up from my chair to like exit the restaurant with him, the seams split down the side of my jeans. Oh no. And it was very embarrassing. Luckily it didn't split like on my hip to like show my underwear, but it slipped like right on my thigh, so it just made me look like I was this like fat monster when in reality I was just wearing very cheap denim. Oh my gosh, and you're thin and you your body is perfect, so to know that these types of jeans just make you feel like crap at the end of your date, like during your date. He laughed it off, thankfully I laughed it off. I have a pretty decent sense of humor, but it really taught me a valuable lesson to never buy cheap denim again, never buy anything cheaply made again. You have to think about the the dollar that you spend on these items, like is it really worth like risking these embarrassing moments? I think not. So where do you typically buy your denim now? I typically buy my denim either from Madewell, Levi, or every now and then I'll find a really great quality piece at Urban Outfitters. I feel like these retailers do a really good job of making sure their cuts are very flattering, their timeless styles that still have a little bit of an edge, and I have yet to have an issue with any of these retailers' denim, so. What else can we do? How can we take a look at what's in our closet? I think that's something that you should always keep in mind is their impulsifies are real. There's like a thing called a shopping high that when you're out shopping with your friends and you're in the moment, you see something that you think you're like obsessed with. You think you see something that you think is gonna like change your life and transform you into this amazing fashionista, when in reality you're just like you know passionate for 0.5 seconds and you just step away and really think is this gonna be that life-changing piece that I want to buy right now? Back away from the rack, people. So I have this thing called the come back to it rule which I kind of just developed on my own and I always always enforce it with my friends whenever we're out shopping because a lot of my friends love to shop and they love style and fashion, but you know sometimes we all get caught up in the moment. I've gotten caught up in the moment before and it usually never ends up feeling exactly as you think it will. In my mind that's when in doubt, do without. Yes, a great way to implement this if you're like out shopping in person because for every millennial I actually do a lot of in person shopping like I love the experience of going into a store and touching different materials and just like making an experience with my friends. So say you're out at the mall and like you find this amazing like leather jacket that's like $500 that you've been wanting your entire life like me. Personal personal story, lots of personal stories today. But let's say that you find this amazing jacket and you're about to like rip off your arm and sell it to buy it. What I would recommend to do is to put this jacket on hold and you go throughout the rest of your shopping trip and I feel like if you're still thinking about it towards the end of the shopping trip maybe there's a chance that you might want to revisit it and maybe it is something that you want to take home as your quality investment piece that you know you're going to want to wear for you know the next five to ten years. However if you finish your shopping trip you go home and you forget all about it that means it's never meant to be. It was just an impulse and you just saved yourself a lot of money. So when I was looking at my closet I was kind of overwhelmed and I even threw her into the mix and she may not have freaked out. I was a little overwhelmed not gonna lie and I've been in a lot of closets. There's a lot of stuff in there. I also share my closet with my husband so that may have added to the mix. That's not entirely your fault. Not entirely my fault exactly. Kyle I'm watching you. Okay so you went in there and I said I just need help with finding something that feels good, feels basic, but feels trendy. So we pulled out some stuff. What were some of the things that you looked for? I looked for neutral colors. As I mentioned I looked for things that were black, white, gray, maroon, navy, even olive is an amazing neutral. Nude right now is a very trendy neutral. If you're about like that Kardashian general life you know all about nude. Those pieces that you picked out I was like huh I hadn't looked at that in a while. So shall we shall we show what that looks like? We shall. Okay so you picked out this top. Yes. If you all can see it. Basic plain tee and what was it about it that caught your eye? Well I feel like a plain white tee goes a really long way. I'm an owner of many plain t-shirts but I feel like a white one is the most versatile. You can dress it up or down. This one actually has a really cute zipper detail on the back which is something that I immediately noticed and I was like hey here it is a basic piece that has a little bit of edge that I think would be very great to pair with either like jeans or you can even throw a blazer on top of it and wear it to a job interview. I feel like you just can't go wrong with like a basic white tee. Plus again universally flattering for all skin tones, all ages, all shapes and sizes. It's all about it. Yeah and this one this is actually from The Gap and what's cool about this is it's actually layered in the front so this is double lined. I shouldn't say layered. It's lined so that when I'm wearing maybe like a lacy nude bra you can't see the lace underneath so it actually works really well and then you said to pair this with just throw that down pair it with just regular denim. Yes so I'm a huge fan of minimalism. I feel like less is more especially with style and these plain blue jeans are going to go far for you. I mean they're a classic they're a classic shape but they also have a little bit of like whispering and fading throughout the entire denim so I think it's really trendy yet still timeless. Huh and I never wear these jeans so I am definitely going to have to pull these back out because they are just that that basic classic denim blue. Yes. I feel like that's that's always going to be in style right? I agree a thousand percent. It's like 90% of what I wear. Love a good blue jean. Okay so I have this awesome skirt. It is I guess is this a-line? I don't know what shape this is. It's like a flared. A flared this is micro suede very buttery yummy. I don't know what to put on top. What do I how do I style this? I would style it well first of course depending on where you're going who you're going to be seeing and what you're going to be doing but I would style it with like a very form-fitting either a short sleeve or a long sleeve shirt really cute throw on some necklaces with it if you're feeling cold you can even add tights or like a knee-high stocking is really cute and trendy. Oh that would be cute. And what I love about it is that it's black it's a neutral so you can pair it with like all sorts of different colors literally any color of top you can pair with it even a black one. I love that and I never thought about and I think you had mentioned body suits too. Yes. To wear underneath this guy so I was like huh. Yeah to prevent untucking and just look more flattering and smooth. I'm actually feeling a lot more confident to go into a store because I know what to look for the neutrals the fitted kind of body suit or fitted and you said ribbed also. Ribbed is a really great material I guess it's not like a pattern but it's more of a material that kind of breaks up anything solid that you might be wearing so it doesn't look so like flat and boring. I know a lot of times people are afraid to wear neutrals or afraid to wear these timeless basics because they don't want to look boring and they don't want to blend in. You can do a lot with texture trust me I love a good texture. Awesome so adding texture to some of these basic pieces really helps break it up visually. Yes. Love it oh my gosh I can't wait to wear this skirt. How often do I need to be taking a look at the pieces inside my closet? You know it varies person to person I like to look at mine I would say every three to six months and I'm not so I'm not someone that like shops all the time but I'm constantly adding in pieces as I'm giving them or throwing them away or selling them of course so I recommend for everybody to give yourself a good spring cleaning winter cleaning summer cleaning if it helps to do it by season that's perfect look for things that you just never wear things that are taking up space things that are kind of making you feel bad for not wearing them or even just things that were gifted to you that you had to pretend to like for a second but hey people move on it's not that big of a deal it's just a piece of clothing. I'd love to know how often you guys are looking at your closet taking inventory drop us a comment below because this is something that I feel like I'm not very consistent about but every now and again I'll get that bug and that urge just to purge everything from my closet and it's very sporadic so keeping yourself kind of on this timeline of checking in every three to six months I love that idea. Yeah and you don't have to do it all at once you could choose maybe one weekend you're gonna inventory all your tops maybe next week you audit your jeans maybe the following week you audit your shoes it just depends on how much clothing you have for example someone like me I really only own maybe like 12 to 20 shirts so it's super simple super easy I think the most of any other item I have are shoes because I love a good boot and I love a good flat and I love a good sneaker so I love these tips bottom line is when you implement these tips you are saving money you are investing back into your closet for the long haul so that you can focus on bigger money goals other than wasting it away on fast fashion or impulse buying and don't be too hard on yourselves remember guys we're millennials I'm only 22 years old I barely started making a salary this year so it's understandable for you to want to go crazy and spend your first paycheck on like these amazing exciting pieces but you have to remember everything that you do right now is going to affect your finances in the long run so it's to implement these as soon as possible I'm talking to you high schoolers I wish I would have known this stuff when I was 17 don't forget to follow this girl your girl chase down on Instagram and over at her blog we're going to drop the descriptions below and let us know how you are implementing these new tips in your closet don't forget to hit that subscribe button and the bell notification so that you never miss another video from me and we'll catch you in another video bye