You slave away to find the perfect dress, match your accessories, get your make up on point - it all looks amazing and makes you feel like a Queen.
The dress fits perfectly, it's comfortable, flattering and reasonably priced.
And now you have to do it all over again for the next event.
Outfit synchronicity is like the perfect alignment of the planets - so rare as to be almost impossible to replicate.
Every woman knows this feeling, and the time, energy and money involved in trying to repeat the perfect formula.
American actress Tiffany Haddish has your back on this one.
According the The Pool, the comedienne, who rocked up to the Oscars in a white Alexander McQueen dress, has proudly worn the same dress three times: to the premiere of film Girls Trip, to host Saturday Night Live and while presenting at Monday's Academy awards.
“My whole team told me, ‘Tiffany, you cannot wear that dress on SNL – you already wore it. It’s taboo to wear it twice.’ And I said, ‘I don’t give a dang about no taboo – I spent a lot of money on this dress!’ This dress cost way more than my mortgage – it’s an Alexander McQueen, OK? It’s a $4,000 dress! I’m gonna wear this dress multiple times.
“I feel like I should be able to wear what I want, when I want, no matter how many times I want, as long as I Febreezed it.”
Some of the most fashionable women I know repackage outfits in creative ways.
Hijabi women in the west are especially good at this. They use vintage and borrowed outfits, layer clothes and colours as an expression of their personal style, culture and identity.
Tiffany's repackaging (and her homage to her Eritrean background in her original red carpet gown), is a welcome counter to the impossibly expensive cookie-cutter corporate gowns on advertisement at the Oscars.
Her statement says fashion can expressive, personal, playful, make you feel good and most importantly shouldn't be taken too seriously or break the bank.
