026/ The Ins-and-Outs of Closet Editing (Pt. 2)
What to do about those pieces you can't decide whether to keep or not...
Hello dear readers,
I’m back with Part 2 of my Closet Editing series! In case you missed it, here’s Part 1 where I discussed all the good reasons for editing your closet on a regular basis, when to do it, and the first steps of the process I use to go about it. In this newsletter, I’m going to address the remaining steps.
But first, my apologies for the low photo quality in the last newsletter (What I’m Wearing: Week 17), especially in the email version. Once again, I ran up against the Substack email length limit and had to shrink my photos, which in turn lowered the resolution on them. It’s important to me to post a lot of high-res visual content because fashion is such a visual medium and the details are key, so I'll keep tinkering with it to get it right. Thanks for your patience!
Anyway, back to closet editing.
In Part 1, I discussed how to determine which pieces you love and need — those you should keep.
For this newsletter, I’m going to dive into those pieces you don’t love and/or don’t need, but want to keep it anyway. It requires its own newsletter because, in my experience with first-time closet editors, the majority of their clothes (maybe even 80%+) fall into this category.
There are many, many reasons we hold on to our things. It’s important to understand these reasons, but it will require you to be really honest with yourself, and it may be uncomfortable to confront some of your thought patterns, consumption patterns, the beliefs you hold about spending (and wasting), etc…
This is where most of the emotional work of closet editing comes in.