I love dresses, but wear them relatively infrequently. I blame my closet: it absorbs every dress I buy and releases them into some abyss where, like a trip to Narnia, I can only access them by digging deep into the back of my closet.
Ok, ok. So maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but still – that’s a pretty unwieldy closet. Especially for someone like me who believes that a well-organized closet goes a long way towards looking your best, every day. I try to keep my closet organized after a few basic principles:
– if there is crap in the closet, I will wear crap (it’s inevitable).
– out of sight, out of mind (it’s true).
– everything old is new again (is this even a principle?).
If there’s an item I can’t remember wearing, don’t think I want to wear, or have no idea where I might possibly wear it, it has no place in my closet. I usually put these things in bags and put them in the corner for a couple of years before I finally get around to giving them away. As for the clothes I do like and wear, if I can’t see them I tend to forget about them. I simply wasn’t seeing my dresses well enough and it became easy to forget about what I had. So I rearranged my closet to make them more visible.
In the old closet jackets, some sweaters, and tops were all on the back row, while dresses, skirts, and other sweaters were on the side rack. cramped. In the new closet dresses, tops, and skirts are on the back row while jackets, all sweaters, scarves (!), and go-to flats are on the other rack but moved to the outside of the closet. so very less cramped. And now (enter the third principle), I haven’t just rediscovered my dresses, I’ve rediscovered nearly everything in the closet. If you’re ever broke (like I am, sometimes) rearranging your closet is a great way to stave off hunger pangs for a shopping spree.
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