Cleaning Out My Closet

Hey! It's been a few years since I did a closet update (check it out, way back in November 2008!). The upper sections with my vintage hats and funky purses are pretty much the same, so I didn't photograph them this time. Check out my "Never Seen" archives if you want to take a close look at all my saved special items.

Lately, I've felt like I had too many clothes, so I did a massive cull of everything I regularly wear (or used to wear). Here's what's left of the shoes:
That's the top two shelves - I've had to arrange three pairs to a shelf to make room for all the heels. When I compared all these shoe photos to the 2008 ones, I counted and only 21 of these shoes have lasted just over 2 years in my closet. That's a pretty high rate of turnover!

The middle section:

I keep my Fluevogs at eye level! I also stash my fabric flowers here and there amongst the shoes, along with all my blogger greeting cards, and keep a lipstick handy.

The lower section of the Tower of Shoes:

There are 48 pairs of shoes on the Tower itself, and an additional 29 pairs of flats/kitten heels, summer shoes and boots on the floor. Do you think 77 pairs is excessive? I know it sounds like a lot, but when I actually look at my shoes it doesn't seem so bad. Ha, I think I have a shoe addiction.

I've tucked the boots away underneath in a flash of optimism - Spring will arrive! Really, it will!

I cleared out a bunch of sweaters and rearranged them on the bottom two folded items shelves:

Um, yes, that is a deodorant. Sometimes I put it on after I've tried on my outfit.

That's my Shelf of Newness (with the big gold cuff - shoot, I meant to wear that with the leopard dress!):

Those are my not-yet-worn items, my blouses, and my long skirts and pants. I only have 6 pairs of dress pants, easily the smallest category of clothes I have.

My dresses got a major weeding:

I'm always sad to say goodbye to dresses, but most of the ones I am getting rid of are ones I've either worn enough times or ones that just don't ring my bell anymore.

My skirts:

Another really tough section to weed out! I love skirts and could easily have double this.

My jackets and blazers:

I gave this quite a major cleansing - I had a lot of duplicates (I don't really need more than 4 black blazers, do I?) and some I just didn't wear.

So what's going to happen to my rejects? I'll be doing what I usually do. I arranged them by category in the library, will let my friends go through them, then take the remainder to the "clothes for store credit" store, and possibly the consignment store for any really good stuff she doesn't take.

Only a couple of my friends have the same size feet as me, so I'll get a major score on my shoes:

Yup, some good shoes there.

My girls always get first dibs and Winesday is at my house this Saturday! I hope some of my pretty dresses go home with them:

Not a great display, ha ha, but this will be a disaster once everyone's tried everything on.

The skirts and pants:

Scarves, hats, gloves, accessories, purses:

And a pile of jackets in the corner.

Finally, all the tops:

Blouses, casual tops, sweaters.

It feels good to have my closet clean! I am looking forward to getting all the old stuff out of here - I don't really have emotional attachments to most of my clothes, so it's not too hard to let them go. I have photographic records of nearly everything on this blog, anyway, so if I miss an item, I can search for it and reminisce.