How do you organise your wardrobe?

[PrincessConsuelaBH]

So I'm trying to start being a bit more put together and less of a scruff! I have some lovely clothes/bags/accessories (and some not so great ones which I'll be ruthless with over the next week or so!)

I was very happy to get a rather large amount of money on a gift card for a high street store I tent to get most of my clothes in yesterday, so I'm lucky enough to be able to treat myself to some new things to wear in the NY but I'm not sure how to organise everything to get the most from it all?

Do you plan your outfits when buying new clothes? Is there an app I can use to help me do this? Do you put matching things together to pick out easily, or separate all your jeans/tops/dresses? I'm not great at styling things so tend to copy what the model is wearing 🤷‍♀️ so I'm wondering if dresses/jumpsuits would be good moving forward as it just feels like a whole outfit?

Any help/advice would be much appreciated!

Hopeful bump as I'd be interested in this too.

Whilst I haven't used it myself, a lot of people recommend stylebook to help them organise their wardrobe and plan outfits. I do usually plan outfits when buying clothes. If it doesn't go with anything in my wardrobe, it doesn't come home (99% of the time). I dont organise my wardrobe into outfits as I find that restricts what I wear. I'm able to mix and match a lot of my clothes as the majority all go together. I have Co-ord sets at one end, then skirts, dresses, tops, jumpers, and jeans at the other end. In my drawers, I keep loungewear. Also, I love wearing dresses as, like you say, it's a whole outfit.

This year I am a bit off track as I have been working from home and will be until at least August - but the best tip I ever read was to think on your life as a cake, and shop according to the size of the slices. So if you spend 2/3 of your time walking dogs or gardening you should have mostly casual outdoors clothes, not 100 cocktail dresses. That really resonated with me.

I tend not to go to formal or fancy places, work in a relatively creative environment, and don’t need heavy duty outdoors/gym stuff. I tend to buy things I could wear for not-work, then transition them to work wear when I get fed up of them.

Another thing that is useful is to know “your shops” for your shape/size. (I’m a size 10, but with big hips/arse, and I know Cos trousers are my perfect match.)

Wardrobe-wise I hang things by item type, then colour. I switch out seasonally - so currently all my knitwear is in, t-shirts are in a chest of drawers, summer dresses are in the spare room or vacuum packed away.

This year I have bought more jeans/chunky knitwear than I would usually because we live in a cold house!!

Following for ideas! I was going by outfit, but that gets too complicated as I mix and match too much. I might change to type and then colour - so all white shirts together next to all black shirts for example. I have a hidden section of my wardrobe where all out of season items go - big jumpers or tiny dresses. I'm going to take pictures of outfits and put them on the door, and then I can look at them to remind me - I'm rubbish with putting myself together!

My take on this is different. I have a section for coats; evening wear; tops; knitwear; trousers and skirts; dresses.

I tend to buy dresses as it is less complicated, no tops to coordinate. Long/midi full sleeves jersey ones for winter and lighter cotton ones for summer. Easy to slip on and off and wash. Usually don’t need to iron either. And a couple of nice trousers to walk dogs with lovely leather walking boots/shoes, wellies depending on the weather

I'm spoilt -I have 1 wardrobe for summer clothes plus 2 wardrobes for winter clothes.

But they do need sorting out a bit more than that.

I spend most days in workout clothes, because I workout every day, the rest of the time I'm in dresses and boots at the moment. For summer I have T-shirt's and shorts/trousers, summer dresses. I only own two pairs of jeans because I don't like wearing them. I have a coup,d of evening style dresses which I haven't worn for a couple of years. I seem to have a lot of boots and trainers, and only one pair of shoes. I seem to have a lot of coats.