If you now or later have a much more restricted clothing budget, how dies that influence the way you approach wardrobe edits, tossing, and style evolution?

There've been some really good posts on downsizing and moving, job and lifestyle changes that interest me because I'm in that age range of thinking about " next phases" of life, even if that's a few years off yet.

I wondered if, space permitting, one becomes more of a " saver" when reality might be that the rate of inflow, or $ spent, is less. Of course the level of interest can shift, too, so that it all balances out.

Some of my initial thoughts are that there is still the same assessment of " fab" for fit, quality so that remains a useful yardstick.

The area I MIGHT approach differently are:
" duplicates" - good items I'm not wearing as frequently but WOULD wear more if another wore out
" imaginary lifestyle" items or things that did not work as well for professional wear , but are fun, fit well. This of course might fit into " anticipatory lifestyle".
My Lucky Penny sparkle boots come to mind. I'm not wearing them much. None this year. But the fit is great and I'd wear them with Bootcut pants or jeans as smart casual if I had more occasions. And I'm not motivated to get another kind of metallic boot right now.
Belts, scarves, some handbags come to mind also.
This is all in a situation where I'm not doing e- bay or good consignment return, so " tossing" doesn't provide much if any return for new items.

Or is it more, temporary holding zones are still the way to think about it, much like weight changes- not either / or, but giving yourself slack to go slow.

Or is that the cop- out to avoid effective wardrobe edits?