The new season’s collections have just hit the high street and many of us will be sprucing up our wardrobes with a few new choice pieces.
Whilst a walk-in closet is a pipe dream for most, the average wardrobe can be carefully managed to be wonderfully organised, beautifully colour coded and season specific with just a few simple steps.
1. Ditch the drab, disastrous or downright distasteful
Chances are those rhinestone bootlegs won’t be coming back in fashion any time soon, so why are they still lingering in your wardrobe?
To identify the pieces of clothing you can live without, hang all your clothes with the hangers in the reverse direction. After you wear an item, return it to the wardrobe with the hanger facing the correct direction. After a while you’ll have a clear picture of which clothes you can afford to discard.
2. Move with the seasons
You’re not going to need those chunky knits in summer (well let’s hope you won’t anyway!), and they take up LOADS of room.
To create extra space in your wardrobe pull out all those winter woollies and scrunch them down with the help of some vacuum bags. Super sucky fun to use and incredibly handy – your cosy favourites are now compacted and can be stored under the bed / in the loft / in a self-storage unit.
3. Perfect your palette
Colour coding your wardrobe makes finding things a lot easier and can help when coordinating the outfit you’re going to wear that day.
It will also highlight if there’s a coloured piece you’re missing that could work well with other items (or indeed that you just wear black ALL the time).
4. Use old shoe boxes as drawer organisers
This can work especially well in the undies drawer – one for pants, one for bras, one for socks and tights.
Also good for sorting neatly folded Tees into beautifully colour coded boxes to make it that little bit easier to find those all important staples.
5. If the shoe fits…
Use an over-the-door shoe organiser, ideally one where you can put two shoes in one slot.
Small cheap book shelves could also be used for boots at the bottom of your wardrobe.
Some people love keeping shoes pristine in their original boxes with a Polaroid picture stuck on the front – a great idea for your Louboutins (we wish!) but only really viable if you have the space.
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