Re-inventing myself as I approach my 70's also means re-inventing my wardrobe.
Like so many, I have way too many clothes and too little to wear. Blogs about how to whittle down and edit a wardrobe so that it suits you are all over the web, but so many of them are aimed at younger women.
What I need to do now . . . and have been doing over the last several months . . . is just get rid of enough stuff so that I can see what I have.
I know it is a lot. Despite sending at least a dozen giant bags of discarded clothing to the local charities which sell or recycle used clothes and perhaps another four or so bags straight to the trash, I still have clothing jammed into my armoire, shoved into boxes and old suitcases under the bed, in cartons in the attic and in TWO dressers in the bedroom.
It is just about time to exchange the Summer clothing in the armoire and dressers for the Winter clothing under the bed and in the attic. I am going to make one simple commitment to myself: to have at least one more giant bag off to the recyclers by the time I finish the exchange.
I know where I am going to start, too. For about three weeks in the Spring and another three in the Fall, the most comfortable way of dressing for the temperatures is a light t-shirt, or if it is a little cooler a turtleneck, under a button-down shirt. With decent jeans or good slacks and a simple accessory, this looks adequately put-together for my stay-at-home life and gets me in and out of the grocery store without embarrassment.
The problem? Jammed into my armoire are enough button-down shirts that I could wear a different one every day for a month and still have some left over. In fact, there are probably almost enough that I could wear a different one on each of those Spring and Fall days for the rest of my foreseeable life.
Time to haul them all out and pick a reasonable handful of the favourites.
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