Well we just went back a couple of stages today. Auckland is back in a lockdown (not a hard lockdown but fairly restrictive) and the rest of the country is on alert with no restrictions but recommendations.

I have not been wearing my blazers at all nor my sheath dresses: without in-person meetings, there has just been no need to dress up that much. I do not plan to get rid of them because I will wear them again, even if it is a year from now. There will be a normal...someday.

What I have noticed is that I have all the clothes I need for the near future. Even the pieces I am wearing, I feel like they are not getting "enough" wear. Some things will be worn twice this summer. At that rate, it would take only 15 years to get to 30 wears. Ha ha. I remind myself, NOT NORMAL times. In a normal year, the same pieces might be worn five, six, seven times.

Plus August in the DC Metro area means that wearing clothes just sucks: necessary but icky sticky.

I could have written what JAileen said. We are retired but used to be very busy with volunteering and the arts and watching the grandkids. I have plenty of clothes and am in the process of reorganizing for 6 “ seasons”, each with an identified dark and light neutral and a few accent colors. I am trying to form 4X4‘s or maybe up to 20 Items for each “season” as the Vivienne File shows. I hope to see what, if anything, I need to do this effectively. For fall I have plenty of accent autumn colors but May need to add to the neutrals. For deep winter I have mostly neutrals but few warm items in accent colors. Thinking of Angie’s red as a neutral, I may use red as a light neutral for the holiday season with greens (forest and olive) as the dark neutral.
I am also planning to rearrange the closet by item first,, then color., hoping to store accessories on the shelves under the hanging clothes. I hope to free up some extra space with everything in the closet as most may be needed year round.