These days we are talking alot about wardrobe success, failure, and size. Since I have only a few days of vacation left, I can take a good look at how summer went in my closet.

These items are just summer casual, for hanging out with the family, shopping, movies, and coffee out. Not too many fancy dinners out. I don't include training gear used for runs, hikes, or swimming.

The big number is 40 pieces including shoes including 3 dressy outfits/heels in case we eat out. Each dressy outfit was used once. OK. there is some summer left...there is hope.

But the big surprise was in shorts/skirts. I replaced my shorts/summer skirts collection in Feb this year and have a grand total of 9 items in that group. I used consistently 4 items. All others were left orphaned. It is not warm enough here to justify 5 more items of this type. I will keep them for future vacations but I think it is clear that I play favorites and even planning an outfit for an orphan didn't help. I used a favorite instead as they gave me higher happiness factor.

On tops, my jean jacket and denim shirt were used alot. And here and there I used all 3 of my light weight v neck sweaters. I do NOT need more, I had exactly enough.

For the shirts and t's and tank, I own a grand total of 17 items. Of these only 6 were used with high happiness. Another 5 could be cultivated, I think, and used more next year if I find the right matches. But that leaves 6 as orphaned. Sad but true.

Finally shoes. I have 4 casual flat shoes/sandals and 3 heels in the group. The heels each were used once for the dresses. The casual shoes were all used regularly, mixed around. I think I have exactly enough there also.

Conclusion, of the 40 summer items I have, I only needed....wait for it.....19 items.

The 3 dressy outfits could rather have been just one and reused. (i.e. target from 6 items to 2)

Final admission, of all the 15 items left....7 of these were bought in February...talk about bad planning..

Uff, now going to hang head in shame. But I know can take these numbers and learning further to make a FAB summer casual capsule and I won't need to replace anything for several years!

Thanks for reading...it is constructive for me to look at the numbers like this sometimes.