October 2026 – Building a Wardrobe Starting With Common Shelduck by Dennis A. Jones

October 12, 2026 She’s a statistics expert, and she works with BIRD data – what a great combination of technology and nature! Her inspiration for her personal style is this dapper creature: Going into full-tilt autumn, our heroine felt that she was relatively well prepared for most of what life had to offer: I have to share this with you: in the year of my birth, 1960, the average woman’s wardrobe (in the US) was 42 garments. That would be the wardrobe above plus two. And when I really try to remember what I wore through high school and college (when I was not interested in clothes much at all!), I may have had this many pieces. But I don’t think so… Now, the average wardrobe is OVER 150 things. What has changed so radically in 66 years? Your thoughts are of great interest to me, since I suspect that quite a few of us have lived through this transition! But on to our heroine’s accessories. I find the power of accessories to be astonishing: After returning from the Vermont college…