Why?

I have an abandoned blog called Coastal Clothes. The last entry is dated September 30, 2024 and it is titled Commentary on Three Photos. 

The oldest dates I can find on this site are October 3, 2024. The photos linked in that piece are on a reddit I own called French Wardrobe where I was gathering pictures I liked.

November West Wears began as a private mockup site and those three photos were used on THIS site when I was playing around with "THIS is what my online shopping portal would look like." But I don't own the rights to those photos, so can't use them on this site as a public site, and it's not really good communication with the public anyway.

So I wrote that post, published it and something gelled in my mind and I fairly promptly -- within 24 hours probably -- began editing this site, starting with removing the mockup photos. It was still private when I wrote and published the initial pieces and maybe on something like the 7th of October made this site public. 

I initially wanted this site to look like a mockup of a clothing store website, so I was trying to write backend info as pages rather than posts to not clutter up my mockup. That's an internal technical distinction for the blogspot platform and pages don't automatically show. You have to intentionally link to them.

So the Biz Notes page has links to those early pages plus links out to stuff I've done elsewhere on the internet. One of those early pages is called Photos and it links to at least two of the three photos in Commentary on Three Photos.

I'm a humble person with a humble life who fantasized that I would get access to a knitting machine, design and make clothes FOR ME and wear them and people would ask me "Wear did you GET that?" like they used to do when I lived in Manhattan, Kansas and it would result in a clothing line, which is the origin story behind a defunct brand called French Rags.

I have a label on this site -- Wardrobe. I added four new Wardrobe posts yesterday, making for 13 pieces with that label, one of which is this piece on the concept of wardrobing.

So in one day it went from 8 sample wardrobes to 12, which is a 50 percent increase, and I'm thinking this concept probably doesn't really fly if I don't also make shoes and such to go with it.

I'm having trouble imagining how that works because "clothing EMPIRE" was never my plan. I wanted to own a programmable knitting machine to make clothes ***I*** would wear and then like take a few orders to defray the ridiculous costs involved in one handicapped woman wanting her OWN programmable knitting machine because I'm all special and need custom clothes like mama used to make me and mom is dead.

And I was living in a small town and imagining this would be a super local little brand selling to a small number of people. And I'm seeing something else in my head and left that little town over a year ago and the landscape of my mind and life have changed.

I'm failing my own KISS test -- keep it simple,  stupid -- and failing it hard. Like I don't really need anything but men's t-shirts and sweatpants anyway. They're comfortable, I work from home and don't date.

WHY would I do this to myself?