Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

Stylist and wardrobe consultant Bornstein wants to give readers the tools they need to tackle their closets, transform their personal style, and become more confident in the clothing choices they make every day. She argues here that classic pieces needn’t be boring and that having fewer choices in the closet can, in fact, produce greater sartorial self-expression by minimizing chaos and ensuring people have only clothes they feel good wearing. Both her “Three Word Method” and “AB Closet Editing System” offer brilliant strategies for eliminating wardrobe clutter and creating a sense of joy and calm, something she found lacking in her own relationship with fashion during the height of the COVID pandemic. The book encourages introspection: it’s not until readers acknowledge who they want to be and how they want to show up in the world that they can begin to let go of fashion pieces that haphazardly fill their closets. Once they do that, they can curate a wardrobe that works. One flaw is that the book lacks a checklist or action steps that readers can use to work through the system as they read.