Why I Wear The Same Thing To Work Every Day By Matildada Kahl Rhetorical Analysis

Many people have countless outfits to choose from and the large variety causes stress on the person when it comes to choosing an outfit for work in the morning. Matilda Kahl, the author of the article Why I Wear the Same Thing to Work Every Day, came up with a solution to this stress problem; wear the exact same outfit every day. She believes that decreasing the number of work outfits a person has to one will reduce the stress level of choosing what to wear to work in the mornings. This will also have a positive impact on their stress level for the rest of the work day. Matilda Kahl uses emotional appeal to convince women in the workforce to create a work uniform or streamline/simplify their wardrobe for work so they are not stressed about what to wear.

As she was getting ready for the meeting, Kahl questions to herself, “Is this too formal? Is that too out there? Is this dress too short?”, by doing this, she is appealing to people’s emotions through stress. “I finally chose something I regretted…” (Kahl). She uses words like “stress level”, “paralyzed”, and “unnecessary panic” to express how stressed she is about the situation to the audience and tries to get the audience feel the same way. Then she mentions “… but that day I decided it would be the last,” meaning she will never have to feel this way again. Kahl explains later that the stress she felt remained with her even through her meeting. The reason she does this is to show how you would feel every day if you didn’t have a set uniform to wear because you would be too worried about your clothes and what to wear instead of