I’m taking advantage of a bit of new year zeal to tackle my wardrobes. They are currently bulging and, as I go through them, I realise it’s because I currently have both the more cropped, boxy style jumpers that I now wear with my barrel & wide leg jeans as well as the longer, arse covering tops I used to wear with skinnies. I really like some of these jumpers & tops! However, they’re too long to tuck in even partially so I just look as though I’m playing dress up in a bigger person’s clothes if I try and wear them with my current jeans.
Do I put them in an empty suitcase & hang onto them until skinnies inevitably come back in? Or do we think that, by the time that happens, styles will have tweaked in some way so that all of these tops will look dated anyway? (Or, maybe, as I turn 50, I will finally have my long awaited teen growth spurt and finally lose my puppy fat and will no longer be a 5’3” pear shaped they will look wrong anyway!).
I have out about half of them in the charity shop style but I still have half a dozen jumpers and a similar number of long & short sleeved tops which I always felt good in when I wore them. I also hate clothes shopping and rarely find things which I feel suit me so I don’t want to rashly get rid of things and then have to start again. Building up enough tops to wear with wide leg jeans feels as though it has involved a lot of blood, swear & tears and a fair amount of wasted money as I wear something a few times and decide it’s not for me after all.