2021 clothes

There was a thread a while back on FFA about a user planning their aesthetic goals for the next year in September as their own September issue. I think it's a great idea and takes some pressure off January as the general goal setting time (not that I've kept that up).

I think for the couple of years in undergrad, my focus was to build a solid foundation of clothes, which I more or less achieved. The recent few years have been shifted towards picking out pieces with more design elements that I both like and flatter me (and sadly looking at the pieces that I like but aren't flattering cause I still wanna look good 😭). This process definitely still isn't complete, and the goldilock direction I want to focus on the upcoming 12 months are:

• Pleated skirts: a midi-length in faux leather or metallic colors. I've held off getting more pleated skirts despite loving this design as I'm worried that the pleats can easily be crushed or loosen. However I've been reassured that the pleats are very durable. I'm still trying to find the perfect midi length for me, and I theoretically think that it should be right under the calves. But overall I still like above the knee skirts the best, but alas it's less work appropriate and less dramatic of a silhouette.
• Wrap dresses: it seems like this is not a currently trending silhouette as I can't find many options :( why is an inherently adjustable piece of clothing not constantly popular!
• Pleated pants: I've been haunted by images on Pinterest of fluidly draped pleated pants and have not even seen product images that live up to my expectations. There also seem to be a conflict in me wanting 100% wool pants and the drape that seem to be only achievable in artificial fibres. Pants are already hard to shop for online, drape-y pants even more so. I've set my target on cream pleated pants in flannel, but am not placing too much hope on finding it. 
• Colour schemes of pink / grey for winter, lavender for summer: a big benefit of wearing a lot of black & white is not dealing with color inaccuracies when shopping online. Lavender is especially difficult, I've already returned 2/2 lavender items I've ordered online :(
• Hair accessories and hair styles: my hair is definitely the part of my appearance that I'm most clueless about and consequently most conscious about. Actually, it's more accurate to say that I don't want to heat style my hair at any regular frequency, and find my natural texture to not be the easiest to work with otherwise. Except I just discovered that it's a good fit for traditional Chinese hair styles, especially the half-up ones. I'm also super into elaborate hair sticks with lots of dangling bits, and so am slowly upping my comfort around wearing hair accessories. 
• Wear more accessories and jewelry in general: chiefly the whole bunch of small & medium square scarves 
• Not be tempted to buy more outerwear or shoes, but maybe another bag if I have leftover money