Los Angeles Image Expert Launches New Service to Show Clients the Extra Money Hanging in Their Close

Los Angeles image expert, KL Moore, offers a new service called a Closet Detox to help clients discover their own style breakthroughs saving them thousands of dollars on clothing.

[USPRwire, Thu Apr 29 2010] The March issue of O Magazine featured an article about Oprah’s personal closet purge, going into great detail about the style revelations Ms. Winfrey discovered throughout the closet cleaning process. To Los Angeles image consultant, KL Moore, closet purging is nothing new, but she says there’s more to it than revelations alone.

This spring she’s proving there’s wasted money hanging in most people’s closets through a new service she calls Closet Detox.

Moore states, “Spring is a logical time for people to clean their closet while they’re cleaning their home, but a Closet Detox is about more than freeing up space.”

Like O Magazine suggested, an element of the process is about recognizing the patterns you keep following and learning why they don’t work, but there’s more to it than just that. Oprah discovered she just doesn’t like straight suits, for example. She also discovered she shouldn’t wear crewnecks and colors in the gold family look best on her skin tone. When the average person does the same thing, while money mightn’t matter much to Oprah, they can stand to save tens of thousands of dollars throughout their lives by not making the same mistakes over and over again.”

Pareto’s principle, or the 80/20 rule, suggests that 80% of women only wear 20% of what’s hanging in their closet and unless someone can identify the reason why women are buying that 80 or 90% of useless clothes, they’ll continue to waste money on clothes they will never wear.

Moore recalls a Closet Detox she conducted with a woman who had 20 pairs of white pants but she only ever wore two or three pairs.

“Seeing all those white pants was a wakeup call for my client. She didn’t know why she couldn’t pass a pair of white pants without buying them even though she always kept going back to the same two pair. I was able to recognize the pattern for her. She liked white pants, but she only liked stark white pants – pristine hospital white because other shades looked dingy to her. She didn’t know that until I pointed it out!” recalls Moore, a former fashion boutique owner.

After the style breakthrough is identified, Moore teaches her clients two important shopping mantras: “I will never…” and “I will always look for…” The woman who loves to wear white continually repeats to herself, “I will never buy off-white pants” and “I will always look for hospital white pants.”

“That client kept shaking her head at the money she wasted on all those white pants she never wore. Many of them were impulse buys off the discount rack because like many women, she just couldn’t pass up a bargain. It’s no coincidence though, that the two pair of pants she kept turning to was the more expensive in her collection. She thought she was saving money by picking up discount items but she was actually throwing money away, something none of us wants to be doing during these tough economic times,” says Moore.

Buying a piece of clothing because it’s on sale does not mean it saves you money. It’s all about CPW or “cost per wearing”, a formula which takes the price you paid for a garment, divided by the number of times it was worn during a particular time period usually a month or year.

Moore explains, “If you have 10 shirts in your closet that you got off the discount rack for $15 each, you have $150 worth of shirts. If you wore each of them once a year before deciding you hate them, they each cost you $15 per wearing. Now if you have one shirt you splurged on for $100 but you’ve worn it fifty times in a year, it cost you only $2 per wearing. Essentially, if you bought all those shirts on sale to save money, passing up the more expensive items that you really wanted, you have not saved anything. You should have just skipped the discount items and invested in a piece you’d wear over and over again.”

The cost per wearing formula applies primarily to basic garments, not the perfect cocktail dress or other special occasion items.

Moore says, “If you were to go to your closet right now and looked hard enough, you could identify your pattern. Perhaps there are five tailored suits hanging there that you don’t actually wear or fifteen turtleneck sweaters. Maybe it’s a sea of aqua blue but you only ever wear navy. Maybe it’s several pair of pants with the pockets on the sides that never seem to work or the light-wash denim you always pass up for your dark wash denim instead.”

If a person did a rough estimate of how much those unworn items in their closet have cost over the years, including shoes and accessories, they would come up with a number in the thousands of dollars.

“The bottom line is that there is a style breakthrough in your closet adding up to thousands of dollars, just like there was for my client who had no idea she was buying pants she would never wear until I pointed out the pattern,” says Moore.

If you can’t identify the pattern in your own closet and you want to learn how to start saving money and you live in the Los Angeles area, contact KL Moore today to find out more about her Closet Detox service. She’ll help you learn how to build a closet full of clothes that you’ll love to wear! Visit her online at www.klimagegroup.com or call (626) 676-4568 for more details.

About KL Moore

KL Moore, MBA is a professional Image Consultant and seminar leader who teaches entrepreneurs and business professionals how to tailor their visual image for business success. As a former Electrical Engineer and prior boutique owner, she infuses her corporate experience with her fashion expertise to help clients understand the link between personal appearance and financial success.

She shares first-hand knowledge of how to convey the right message through attire at any weight, shape or height. From personal experience, KL knows that very few people are successful on competency alone. Business acumen, along with looking the part, are all part of her success formula.

KL is professionally trained in Custom Color Analysis by one of six worldwide Color Image Masters and studied Image Management at the International Image Institute in Canada. Clients love her honesty and frankness while her audience finds her passion contagious. From technical gurus to business savvy professionals, KL invigorates and connects with her listeners.