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Updated July 5th, 2010!

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Are you on a budget?

12 Simple Separates will help you build your clothing choices in easily affordable steps.

Do you find yourself with a closet of clothing and nothing to wear?

Garments that look great but don’t match? 12 Simple Separates will ground your wardrobe in reality, and allow you to enjoy your prints and special items.

Do you need several “types” of clothing for different parts of your life?

Like professional clothing, mommy clothing, event and function wear? 12 Simple Separates will help you keep your costs to a minimum, and help your best pieces work in multiple ways.

By choosing 3 basics from your current closet, then adding in three capsules of 3 garments each, you can create a different look every day for two months (or more).

Once you’ve done this, you can add other styled garments and accessories to personalize and add punch to your style, so that it is ever-changing, yet comfortable and easy to choose and wear.

About Me

For years I was immersed in and surrounded by clothing. I wrote books, articles and taught classes all about sewing, fashion design and personal style. Naturally, I love clothes.

It’s been a love/hate relationship though. There were years that I despaired of ever looking the way I imagined.

One day, I realized that my life was different from everyone I knew (I was 24, juggling a new marriage, a new business that had me traipsing all over the country, and college classes), so my wardrobe choices should also be different.

Seems obvious, doesn’t it?

Yeah, it was one of those V-8 smack-yourself-in-the-head moments for me. It was at that point I began a fascination with personal style. Not just my own style, but the styles my students wanted to create for themselves, how style affects confidence, body shapes, and creating style on a budget.

This guide is a result of that study, and a small exerpt from a much more in-depth look at personal style that I first wrote 8 years ago, and have shared with thousands of women around the world in the years since.

In this free guide, I’ll introduce you to my 12 Simple Separates technique of wardrobe management. I’ll show you how easy it is to use only 12 garments to create enough clothing combinations to last for two months (or more) with no repeat performances.

Not only is it easy, it’s economical, too!

Now, don’t get all bummed about economical. I’m not suggesting you HAVE to cut back or wear the same boring uniform day in and day out. I am not formulaic about my style choices, nor should you be.

That said, I believe that a foundation wardrobe of versatile, basic pieces will allow the special garments that you purchase or create to really shine.

An understanding of using 12 Simple Separates as a method of building your closet one small step at a time benefits everyone.

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12 Simple Separates by Heather M. Claus is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.