Do you ever edit you clothes closet? Just take everything out of it and judge each item: throw out, give away, or put back in the closet?
If you do that, do you have a rules of thumb like: if I haven't worn it in [a particular number of months or years], it cannot go back in the closet? What is the length of time in your rule?
Can you really follow that rule, or do you make exceptions? Is there some length of time that for you signifies vintage, which supersedes the original time-length rule of thumb?
What really old clothing items — jewelry doesn't count — do you have that you would seriously defend as vintage? And of the things you can't call vintage, what has remained unworn in your closet for the longest time (and how long)? My vintage entry: a beautiful (and comfortable) pair of black suede Perry Ellis high heels from 1981. My nonvintage item that I can't wear or part with is a long chartreuse dress made of scarf-like silk, not worn in nearly 15 years.
And yes, I'm trying to clean my closet — trying, in the sense of blogging about it, meaning to do it... sometime.
UPDATE: I'm actually doing it! In the real world! I am going to be so organized.
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In 1964 my parents bought me a gorgeous camel-hair polo coat when I left home (Fort Lauderdale) for college in Atlanta. Since then I have returned to Florida and lived there ever since. I have need of a heavy coat maybe 2 times a year and it has always been that classic never-out-of-style vintage polo coat. I have actually gotten compliments on it in recent years which totally makes me LOL.
I got through the whole task. Should have devised some rules of thumb along the way. Maybe something like: If you have to stop and think, what kind of a mood would I need to be in to wear that, throw it out. I must say, I have some long sleeved T-shirts that are 15 years old that I still really like and cannot throw out. They would need to have holes in embarrassing places or be so threadbare as to be see-through before I'd give them up. One in particular that I remember wearing for the first time in 1990 is all frayed and thin, and my view of it is, if I could buy the same thing today at a price of $40 apiece, I'd order 10.
I have my dad's fringed leather jacket.
Beckyj--the original, british "What not to Wear" is even better, if you haven't seen it. It's on BBC America several times a week.
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