White blouse with bow, black pants, finished. Five years ago, Art Director Matilda Kahl stopped thinking about what attracts her to work each morning. Since then, just always carries the same.

Do you know this montage, where one stands in the morning in front of the mirror and just does not know what to wear? Everything looks stupid! So you change your clothes three times before frustrating just grabbing something. And in the end, you run out of doors in a bad mood and stressed out, and it's way too late.

To give up

It was just such a Monday that Matilda Kahl swore that she would change something. Completely harried and also completely unprepared, the art director of one of the most renowned New York advertising agencies came to a meeting with her colleagues and the new boss? and she was still wearing her sweater wrong. "Why the whole thing?" She wondered. "My colleagues are taken seriously too, no matter what they wear." She was looking for a way to escape the absurd stress of choosing her clothes in the morning. The solution came in 15 white blouses and a pair of black pants. Since then, she has been carrying her to work every day. And for more than five years.

© Photo: Instagram Matilda Kahl

It took four weeks for anyone to ask why they wear the same clothes every day. At that time, a colleague even campaigned for a salary increase so that Matilda can finally afford new clothes. Another colleague was worried because he thought she had joined a sect. But Matilda had just bought a work uniform? ? a not even original idea? as she writes in an essay for the American magazine Harper's Bazaar. Men have their suit, doctors their tunic: A uniform is a simplification of life. That's what Matilda thinks, as does Barack Obama. Although he did not always wear the same suit during his tenure, he always wore one in blue or dark gray. Namely, to reduce the number of his everyday decisions. "I do not want to have to decide what to eat or wear because I have so many other, much more important choices to make," he said in an interview to the Vanity Fair.

Time for the important things

But back to Matilda. Is not it sometime boring to always wear the same clothes? It's always been five years! "No way," she says with conviction. Even as she moved from New York to Stockholm and changed jobs, she remained true to her uniform. Because it only brings benefits. "I have more time to focus on the really important things," she told Spiegel Online. How many hours would I have spent in front of the wardrobe? Not only do I feel well with what I'm wearing today, I do not even have to worry about what that is. " The total liberation. It could not be easier. We think about it.

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