Is that three different wardrobes? I have one! So yes, from my perspective that is way too many clothes. You don’t have anything to wear because you can’t see what you have.
I’d honestly empty them one at a time and do the full Marie K. Which ones do you:
- like the colour but the shape isn’t quite right? Take a photo of the colour (or whoever bit you like) and put it in the charity shop bag.
- like the shape but the colour never feels ok? Again note the shape and put aside.
- always feel good in but it’s getting a bit tatty? Put into a different pile. You can make this party of your shopping list.
- always feel good in? Keeping pile (note that the keeping pile is not allowed to include anything you used to look good in until you dyed your hair/lost weight etc. if you must, that can go in a separate pile and some of it might go in the shopping pile eg this shape is great but the colour is wrong)
Be honest with yourself. If you know you always take out that top but never wear it, think why that is. Shape? Size? Colour? The way it makes your arms look? And pile accordingly.
If you are left with nothing in your keeping pile then you are right, you have nothing to wear. If you keep it all, you haven’t been honest with yourself about why you don’t like wearing them. If you feel guilty for spending all that money on stuff you never wear and which doesn’t make you feel good, let it go. Give the clothes to charity (find a local one to help women get clothes for job interviews for eg) and then look at what you have left.
Sort the remaining clothes by season or by activity - party frocks, work clothes, park run, whatever. I do actually remove the ‘high summer’ stuff and stick it in an ikea skubb box at the bottom of the wardrobe (or under the bed) and the same with proper winter clothes eg velvet tops, warm trousers. It all makes space - the point is you only have things you want to wear in your wardrobe, not things you bought because they were on sale and a fabulous bargain or you like the colour or as an incentive to lose weight or whatever.
Think about what you do and when you panic about having ‘nothing to wear’. What do you not have now? A pair of jeans you like, with seven in your charity shop pile? Go jeans shopping. Take a kind and honest friend. Buy one pair. Wear them. If you wear them all the time, buy another pair the same.
When you buy a new top or skirt or trousers/jeans, make sure you can wear it with at least three things you already have. Don’t cheat. Try it. Be ready to send/take it back if it doesn’t.
Or, buy three more wardrobes and space things out so you can see them….