INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Designing and building your simple personal outf it
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Use this guide to help you kickstar t your own personal U N I T. This manual provides an easy and fun way to design your simple personal outf it you can keep on wearing for days. T h e u l t i m a t e g o a l i s f o r y o u t o i d e n t i f y, design and build your own U N I T so you don’t have to think about it again.
INSIDE THE U N I T KIT
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A | Instruc tion Manual
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B | Diposable Camera
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C | DI Y Poster
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D | Worksheet
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E | Waste Disposal Bags
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F | Wardrobe Mixer
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Ta k e a s e l f i e e a c h d a y f o r a m o n t h . F i n d s o m e t i m e before heading out to take a pic ture of yourself in front o f t h e m i r r o r. A f t e r y o u r u n o u t o f f i l m , j u s t b r i n g y o u r disposable camera to the nearest photo printing center and your friendly photoguy will take care of it for you.
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1 month
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Remember to take a pic ture of your out f it each day for a month until all the frames have been exposed.
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Take the U NIT camera from the kit and take a pic ture of yourself in front of the mirror before heading out.
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Make a run to your closes t photo printing center and have your photographs developed.
Remember that you are documenting what you’re wearing, so it is impor tant to take a pic ture from a distance. Make sure you capture most of what you’re wearing.
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Example of how you can take a pic ture of your complete wardrobe
Now that you have photographs of what you have been wearing for a month, the pos ter you’ll be making will give you an idea of what your ideal U N I T is.
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The U N I T Kit comes with all the materials you’ll need to make your personalized pos ter. The s trings have been pre -setup for easier ins tallation. Each s tring should be able to hold 9 photos.
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Jus t hang up your photos and your pos ter should look like the f igure below once you’re done.
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Fill out the U N I T Wardobe Analy zer that comes with the kit. Completing this simple worksheet help you see that you ac tually already have some sor t of uniform. Keep the completely f illed out U N I T Wardobe Analy zer as this will be used later.
Example of completely f illed out U N I T Analy zer
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At this point, your main goal is to make sure that you have ever y thing you need and then minimize e v e r y t h i n g e l s e t h a t i s j u s t c l u t t e r.
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TWO WEEKS WORTH
Sk ir t s
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Shir t s / Tops
Dre s se s
Shoe s
Ou ter wear Jacke t s (i f ne e de d)
P an t s / Jeans
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Disposing might be the hardes t par t, but a good way of approaching this is to bring your unused clothing to places that give you money for your donation (i.e. Plato’s Closet). If there aren’t any s tores that would buy them, you can always bring them to charit y and second-hand s trores. The U N I T Kit comes with t wo plas tic bags to get you s tar ted.
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Sweat shir t s / Hoodie s
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There is no per fec t number of how many clothes you should have lef t by the time you have built your U N I T. However, you should make sure to have AT LE AST t wo weeks wor th of clothes for rotation.
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EXISTING U N I T S
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1 | N ATA L I A I LY I N B l a z e r, t u r t l e n e c k , slacks, leather shoes 2 | PAT R I C K M U L L I N S Button-down shir t, t- s h i r t , j e a n s , s n e a k e r s
3 | MAKENZIE STONE Outer wear jacket, hoodie, s c a r f, c r o p p e d p a n t s , socks, trainers 4 | D E R E K VA N D E R G R I E N D Denim jacket, f lannel, sof tball tee, dark denim, hoodie, skate shoes
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free to play with the U NI T Wardrobe Mixer included in the kit. It will have all the necessar y instructions for you to star t using it. Keep using what you have until you absolutely need to r e p l a c e p a r t s o f i t . B y n o w, y o u n o l o n g e r n e e d t o t h i n k a b o u t w h a t y o u ’ r e w e a r i n g o r g o i n g t o w e a r. Yo u ’ r e o n y o u r w a y t o h a v i n g a s i m p l e r, m o r e f o c u s e d l i f e .
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I f y o u s t i l l f i n d y o u r s e l f t h i n k i n g a b o u t w h a t t o w e a r, f e e l
S I M P L E
P E R S O N A L
O U T F I T S