what a great thread lots of good ideas.
i have wanted to do this also and like you Bathsheba im a SAHM but think i should pop my last 2 before i go the new wardrobe. it will be fun for you to shop for all the new stuff.
im a big bra fanatic most people don't were the right bra and to be honest the most beautiful outfit is ruined by saggy baggy post natel boobs. i recomend tossing most if not all of you old knickers and bras and going to get fittered by a professional pref in DJ's, Myer or a specitaly store. that bras and things shop never does a very good job when i go in there.
my biggest problem is i don't much like todays fashions the young stuff looks trashy and the rest makes me feel like im in my mother's clothes she is a (good quality) pants, top, cardi / waist coat and sexi heals mumma and i don't want to look like my though very fashionable mother. im starting to feel old and todays fashions are not helping.
sexy i want to look sexy even DH thinks todays ladieas fashion is anything but sexy.
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I agree, i probably should have put "Basics" but i wanted to indicate that I also want to avoid fad style choices. I don't, for example consider hipsters as Classic. Infact, even though I own a few pairs of hipsters i don't really like them. Unless I wear a skin-tight top I lose all my shape. Picture this: broad shouldered woman wears a loose cotton shirt with her broad hips in hipster jeans... my waist is "lost". Why do women like them so much? They also cling to the butt making it look too big IMO a MUCH more flattering pant-style is a cut that falls stright down from the curve of the butt without clinging to the underside IYKWIM. In a few years hipsters are going to make me look like mutton... I'll be giving them all to my teenage DD. My stomach is basically flat... I have two jutty bits (bones at the top of my pelvis) that I like the have as the point at which my waist line sits. The perfect pant falls straight down at this point.... no pockets, just nice and smooth... but do you know how HARD it is to find a pair that sits at that point??? they are all about 5cms too low... so that when i tuck in my shirt there's this silly crumply area that messes up the way it should lie flat. I think my problem is that my torso is very female in the way it curves and the current fashion is for women who must be more straight up and down? 
it's all very frustrating to have a feature you like but for current fashion to ignore it... It's all about covering/hiding your waist it seems these days. Unless you want to wear a stupid wide leather belt over the top of everything! UGH! I couldn't think of anything worse than having a broad decorative belt cinching everything in.... I don't "do" decorative fashion... it's comfort before looks.
Green is probably the most common colour in my wardrobe... i wonder what that says 
I like black but it makes me look too serious.... I am always told i look intimidating so i use colour to soothe other people! I also wear a lot of white. Like a lot of you have said, a white linen shirt is called for!
they were the last pair! the sales assistant said she had had them for ages... people liked them but they just didn't fit them... I tired them on and it was like I was Cinderella! LOL So comfy too that I asked if I could keep them on... i did 2 hours worth of shopping and they were comfortable all that time! Now THAT'S a good sign!
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