Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 15: Crash course
Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 15: Crash course
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Have hundreds of clothes in your wardrobe?
Need to downsize?
Want to do this with the speed of light?
Today, I welcome you to a boot camp course of wardrobe elimination.
For this post, I'm using my husband's clothes, because I've already built my capsule wardrobe.
Reasons I'm eliminating his clothes:
✓ He always wears the same things, even though he has other ones with the same purpose.
✓ There are unopened / untouched items he received as gifts or bought as souvenirs
✓ He's not an outgoing person
✓ The unworn clothes are taking up more space than the ones he wears (80/20 rule)
✓ He has no attachment to clothes
I think these criteria apply to a lot of us. For anyone, regardless of gender, occupation, or age, there will be a point where they'll realize that the wardrobe is now full, and they need a good speedy demolishing session, so here it is!
There are multiples of the sa
On the left, items purged, and on the right, items that are kept.
Here are the logics:
1) There are multiples of items with the same purpose, but husband only wears the same few.
For example, even though he has colorful items, I noticed that he's always wearing the least colorful ones, and even on a special occasion, he'd say that colorful shirts aren't for him, and ends up wearing something subtle, therefore it's an indication that having colorful items is not a necessity.
2) Husband likes buying a-kind-of-thickness-for-each-occasion/temperature. He has long sleeves, pants, and socks ranging from thin to thick. He can have multiples of each thickness, so they take up a lot of space. Though we live in a city with 4 seasons, we only have so many days that are extremely cold where he'll need to dress up like a Yeti (if it gets brutally cold or snowy, we can work from home so he doesn't even get a chance to wear all the thick items). Let's say he has 2 - 3 of thick to heavily thick items, multiplied by 3 or 4 categories (jacket, shirt, pants, socks), the equation 2 thicknesses x 3pc/each x up to 4 categories =24 items, but in reality he only wears 1 - 2 of them, once or twice in a year, which is equivalent to 2 thicknesses x up to 2pc/ea x up to 4 categories = up to16 items potentially worn.
So out of the 24 items he prepares for the worst case scenario, only up to 16 items are worn (because reality is that not even that many is worn), therefore his wardrobe is definitely overstocked.
A simple solution for this is, instead of preparing for the worst case scenario to the maximum, he can simple layer up with his existing thin to medium thickness clothes, so he can either cut down the just-in-case clothes to half, or just keep at 1pc each for a peace of mind.
3) A happy wife is truly a happy life. Most of the time, the mom/wife is the one doing the organizing work, and the family really depends her to be happy to keep a good vibe in the air. In order to sustain my happiness, removing extra materials that cost me extra time or space helps me a lot, therefore it's significant that I do this process not only on my own belonging, but for the rest of the family members and household items. (I make sure there's enough left = minimum + some spare pieces)
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