Wardrobe Resolutions
Wardrobe Resolutions
A new year approaching always gets me thinking about New Year’s resolutions . One resolution that is simple to make, keep and practical is to resolve to update and amend the contents of your wardrobe. This not only makes you feel good; after all you can give the unwanted clothes to charity, but it also grants you to assess your clothes and make room for the coming seasons purchases.
The ideal way to begin is to take everything out of your wardrobe and place it all on the bed. Make several piles of clothes: those that you wear regularly, those for special occasions, those that you haven’t worn in the final two years and those that don’t fit you.
It is those that don’t fit you that are the easiest pile to sort out first. If they don’t fit you now, they are unlikely to fit you in the coming year. therefore the ideal thing to do with them is to donate them all to charity. If you can’t bear to do this have a clothes swap celebration with your friends – that way others get to wear your cast offs and you never know you might end up with some new clothes yourself.
The next pile to deal with is the ones that you haven’t worn in the final two years. Look at apiece piece of clothing objectively – is it something that is still fashionable? Does it suit you? Or is it something that you purchased on a whim in the sales? Remember whether these pieces are in good condition you might be healthy to sell them at a moment hand shop or a automobile boot sale.
After going through these two piles ruthlessly – you should have freed up a clean amount of space in your wardrobe. the nest thing to do id to look at the remaining piles of clothes. Are they all in good condition, presentable and fashionable? Also look and see whether there are any items in you core wardrobe that are missing. Do you have that ever important tiny black dress? Have you got a suit that will be useful at many miscellaneous occasions?
This will help you to assess what is lost and therefore you will know what to aim for when it is time to fill in the gaps – And what superior time than now?
Fiona Muller is a trained textile designer and has written a textile thesaurus. She is interested in fashion and how it can work for anyone regardless of age, size or race.For some great ideas on the latest looks and some really high calibre clothing go to www.east.co.uk