Lisa's amazing post and all your thoughtful comments about it sent me down a few more rabbit holes in old forum posts about wardrobe maintenance.

My style is straight-ahead cosmopolitan modern classic, and my palette is dark and neutral. In "style speak," I'm an hourglass who feels best elongating and who likes uniform dressing. This means I don't *need* or usually want a lot of variety.

That said, I *love* clothes (hi, fabbers!) and I have a lot of them. (My recent wardrobe census was about 300 piece including shoes and accessories.) Even within my "uniform," I do create variety and delay wear-out by repeating styles. So I have three black blazers and two navy ones, and seven pairs of dark skinny jeans (including exact duplicates). I recently found a tank top that is the *perfect* underpiece, I bought *three* of them.

My vision is clear and consistent and it's easy to decide what to keep and pass on at the end of each season.

That said, I would like to pipe up here to advocate for not editing all the outliers. After seeing the pattern a few times, I realize that, when I do edit, it's healthy for me to keep one or two out-of-character pieces for each season that fall into the category of *looks good on me* and *I like it*, but that don't hew to the strict palette/theme/mantra of my overall wardrobe. These are pieces that are there to make me stop needing to buy something new when I do crave a trend/style/variation that's out of my wheelhouse, since they show me why these elements aren't part of my everyday wardrobe (and why they might fool me into thinking they should be).

Here are some examples:

- There's one point every summer when see someone wearing a bright-colored dress, and I think "that so pretty"! Instead of searching for a bright-colored dress, now I "shop my closet" and pull out the dusty-pink Vince top that stays for this one occasion: the color looks nice on me, I always get compliments on it, but I don't feel like myself in it, so I say "thank you," I launder it, hang it up, and hold onto it for the same thing next year!

- Ditto linen. "Oh, wouldn't it be nice to wear linen since it's so hot? Everyone looks so easy and comfortable!" Pull out a Muji grey linen sack dress and wear it; feel easy and comfortable, but not at all like myself (too unstructured); launder it, hang it up, and wait for the same thing to happen next year.

For me, this is generally about color and fabrication. For you, it could be a pattern, silhouette, whatever.

Just leaving this here as a thought for those of you considering an end-of-season edit. If there's a piece you *like* that *looks good on you,* but isn't *you,* you might keep it for a while as a built-in outlier that helps you be clear about your style and avoid a needless purchase the next time it comes to scratch that itch. At least, that's been a helpful tool for me. Does anyone else do this?

I for one can't wait to get back into my dark skinnies this fall!