Simplify your wardrobe
April 29, 2008
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Gwyneth Paltrow, 35, tells Vogue magazine that she has found that the secret to being a happy parent involves simplifying everything in your life- including your wardrobe. The busy actress is busy juggling quite a few balls in the air: promoting her new movie, Iron Man, her cooking show, her Estee Lauder modeling contract, being a rockstar wife to Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and (most importantly) being a mom to 4-year-old Apple and 2-year-old Moses.
“I keep everything very simple. I think the thing that drives most working mothers crazy is this idea that they can’t do everything: ‘I don’t know what to wear. I don’t know what to cook. I can’t work and do this and that and the other.’ But I find that as long as you’re not depressed, if you simplify everything, you can do anything,” Paltrow says. “If you’re going to cook dinner, so that you and your husband can invest in each other, don’t make duck á l’orange. Learn six recipes that are simple, easy, that you can do when you put the kids to bed.”
How does Paltrow simplify her wardrobe? “I find that it is very helpful to have a sort of mother uniform. Like, I say, OK, this winter I’m going to wear mini dresses and tights and this pair of jeans and these two coats. Done. I wear either these Lanvin boots every day or gray Chloé ankle boots. It’s like I want to eliminate all of the fuss. I don’t have time anymore to sit there and be like, What should I wear? What goes with this?”
Do you have a pregnancy uniform or mother uniform? Don’t worry about having a designer mother uniform (we don’t all have Gwyneth’s loaded bank account), but it should consist of something that looks stylish, makes you feel great and is comfortable. For me, my pregnancy uniform consisted of maternity jeans and a cute top (first and second trimester) and a jersey skirt with a stretchy waistband and bump-hugging tank for the 3rd trimester.
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