But I recently felt like I beat the system and got a little boost from it.
How?
Clothes
A few weeks ago, I spent around £1500 on clothes for the headshots I would be shooting the next day.
Snap snap snap.
Great please and thank you.
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£1500?
Profligate much.
No thank you I prefer to fly, but here’s the twisto:
I returned £1441 of the clothes the following week.
And this is the second time I have used this technique.
It seems to work well.
The problem
I hate clothes shopping, I always seem to end up sitting in a dressing room for hours studying my hair.
Add to this the importance/nonsense that headshot’s allegedly carry and I have myself a nice neurosis poo sandwich.
I don’t want to go stupid shopping.
But the photographer said best come with a few looks
I only have black shirts, Hawaiian shirts and black hawaiian shirts.
So…let’s drag myself to stupid clothes shop to spend stupid money i don’t have, only to find my stupid forehead’s grown again.
It turns out though,
with the knowledge that i would be returning all the clothes in a few days,
that essentially no money would be spent,
no emotional banking into the permanent wardrobe of Alex
I couldn’t help but walk down Oxford St feeling like this guy
wont be the last we see of him
Here’s what I would recommend to someone like me:
A couple of days before your headshots go to the shops and buy all the clothes that make you feel awesome.
Do a fashion show for your relatively unsuspecting partner/roomate/best mate/chat roulette.
Based on your instincts or more likely the eyebrows of your audience, pick out 3-4 “looks” (outfits) to take.
Bring those with you, leave everything else in the bags they came in.
You’ll smash the shoot cos you’re awesome and you look like a thousand bucks.
Return everything to the stores ASAP.
No really, ASAP – the longer it’s sitting in your bedroom, the closer you are to being someone who spent £1500 on headshot clothes in earnest.
But trust me, once you return it all you’ll feel like this fuckin guy
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Rules:
Only spend as much as you can afford to lose if the worst happens (you crash into a wine merchant on the way home and everything gets covered in a healthy Rioja).
Check returns policy for each store (it’s on your receipt).
Get physical receipts and if you can – digital (email) too.
Keep them safe, keep them secret.
Generally you will have 30 days to return, but always check your receipt.
Never cut off a label (most will be in places you can hide during the shoot).
Never get attached to anything – become a clothes psychopath.
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bonus rule:
Keen eyed mathematicians will notice i did not return everything and I am a hypocrite.
Well fuck you very much I havent told you about the bonus rule yet.
The bonus rule is
that for getting through the hellscape of headshotland
you get a reward.
You can hold something back.
I held back something very special
a beautiful, nice, new, black shirt.
someone ok’d this
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