Erin McKean on What I Think About When I Think About Sewing:
6. Visualization. Where will I wear this dress? Who will be there? Will I wear it once, or over and over again? Will I blog it?
7. Shoes. Which ones? Do I already own them? Would this dress require shoes that do not, in fact, actually exist? (E.g., every pair of boots I've ever wanted.) Do I have a pair of shoes in a weird color that I need to make a dress to match? Am I looking for an excuse to buy a new pair of shoes in a weird color? (Lather, rinse, repeat for "Coat" and "Bag".)
McKean is perhaps better known as a lexicographer...I like her McKean's Law:
Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.