Voices of Zash

“What We Choose To Keep”

When Sara moved apartments last spring, she packed her whole wardrobe in two boxes.

It wasn’t always that way. The move forced a question she had been avoiding: which of these things would she actually miss?

The answer was a short list - pieces she wore every week, that still fit well, that still felt like her.

“Everything I kept, I kept because I would buy it again.”

Most of what stayed had been bought slowly. A few were ZASH pieces she had picked for exactly that reason: made well enough to last, simple enough never to date.

Everything else went to friends, to charity, or to recycling - and she hasn’t replaced any of it.

A carefully chosen piece folded into a small wardrobe

Sara says the new apartment feels bigger than it is. So does the wardrobe.

Keeping less, she found, was really about keeping better.

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