Determined and tenacious are definitely two adjectives I’d use to describe myself, and nowhere is that more apparent than in my wardrobe. When I decide I want something, I will pretty much stop at nothing to obtain it. Remember the Madewell clutch saga of 2013? I remember my boss at the time joking that she wished we could all put in as much effort as I put into tracking down that bag.

This time around, it was this Uniqlo coat from fall 2017. After seeing it on my friend Julie last winter, I knew it was the exact effortless camel coat my closet was missing. The downside? It was long sold out everywhere. Cue me obsessively searching for it on eBay and Poshmark and more than a year later, I finally found it. It may take a lot of time and patience (and resisting the urge to buy similar-looking pieces for immediate gratification), but to me, there’s nothing more rewarding than finally making that one piece mine.