Wardrobe Therapy Workbook

by JRAT

This set of five Wardrobe Therapy workbooks is designed to aid you in contemplating your past, present, and future relationship with fashion. Each workbook is filled with questions to answer, doodle prompts, and timelines to fill out. The intention of this process is to deepen your understanding of how your fashion past connects to the present, how you currently dress and why, what motivates you in your styling and shopping habits, and how to better direct your future fashion to fulfill your intentions, wishes, and desires. Wardrobe Therapy is a practice of affirmation, not prescription. You know within what is best for you in shopping, styling, and dressing–these workbooks aim to unearth and affirm that truth.

Janelle Abbott (JRAT) was born into the fashion industry—her parents owned a clothing manufacturing company where they produced Tencel garments in Seattle for over 20 years. This early exposure to the behind the scenes of garment production gave Janelle a sense of reverence for the labor involved in creating clothing. She received a BFA in fashion design from Parsons School of Design in 2012. In the face of the exploitive labor and environmental damage perpetrated by corporate fashion, Janelle decided to carve her own path—one committed to upcycling, sustainability, hand craft, and the zero waste design methodology. Densely pleated, boldly clashing, and unexpectedly rhythmic, Janelle’s work is scrappy, unapologetic, and a testament to just how much time and energy it takes for real humans to manufacture and produce every consumer product we engage with.