I think my new criterion for new items should be, do I feel like I could almost wear this every day?

So where does Donna Karan fit in, and where does the 5-piece French wardrobe come into it, and what about the shoes ?

(And how does any of this get the Holding Zone organized, inquiring minds would ask).

I decided to try these DK tweed pants on a whim. Kinda cray but wanted to see what might be different about the DK construction and fabric.
Well, the ones I got were too tight and I probably will not try sizing up because I think they may be too...everything. Even sized up they may be cut too straight through the hip, too pegged, also disappointingly not lined, so too itchy, and too expensive IF.

If being, if I would only wear them occasionally. Or, if winter is half over and I may only have another month or 2 to wear them (since they are tweedy).

But what if some pants like that fit so well and were so versatile (went with several types of tops and footwear) and fit my mood of the season, so that I happily wore them once a week for 16 weeks , not worrying about whether I might not feel the same way in 6 or 12 months?

Which gets me back to:

I have never figured myself for a minimalist, but I do at times wonder if I am still stuck in keeping a larger wardrobe consisting of items that I am not going to wear enough in a given season, even though I like them,
because somehow there is always a subgroup that I like the most. But, I always feel like I am selecting items that I will/should want to wear for several years, and so that somehow justifies buying more of them, if that makes any sense whatsoever..

So, should I only be shopping pre-season with the concept not of "wardrobe holes" but, to find one item in each category (pants, shoes, skirt, sweater) that I feel I'd like to wear right now, not next year, or next. Okay, I guess that does include wardrobe holes, assuming that each time there are going to be some items from the year before that I really do feel like wearing.

Should my wardrobe consist of only 15 or so items (making up numbers) that I wear each one once a week and practically replace each season or year with whatever is a new 'love' then. Might that not be as economical as having items purchased for "longevity".

Is this the actual opposite of the French wardrobe--not building a group of long-lasting "classics" --or similar in buying very few, of-the-moment-wear items. I don't mean trendy, but, just-right- for-now items (body shape, mood, lifestyle). So numbers matter here to make the economics work.

This is probably another rendition of "buy fewer, better quality " but it's potentially different because I always felt those things should be wearable for several years or I was making a mistake.
So the difference may be, buy fewer, happier.

Enter, these Halogen loafers had been out of stock but re-stocked in my size. I think they are going to stay, but had to check on some things about the fit on my R foot, which is larger than L. Hence am trying the freezing water trick and walking about a bit because they are happy otherwise. But the point is, I love how they look with some of my "same old" pants and skirts and I wanted to wear them right out of the box (style-wise).

It all comes back around to setting the bar higher, I guess. Everything added might be so much fun that you can hardly bear to put it back away; you'd almost wear it daily, and then you do.