Yesterday was great fun with DH, who asked me to help him with a closet purge!

9 months ago he started a new job (that he loves!). However after years of dress pants, dress shirts, ties, and the occasional jacket, he is in a much more casual work environment (no ties. Not ever!) His fall back for summer was to don golf shirts with his lighter weight work trousers. With cooler weather, he has been wearing his dress shirts under sweaters, sans tie. Weekend wear was the same old faded jeans with a rugby shirt or t-shirt. Still, he was feeing like he 'had noting to wear' though he was taking up the greater part of our walk in closet!

So, yesterday afternoon, I had him put the litmus test of YLFabulosity to his clothing. If it was stained, ripped, or worn past repair - trash. If it didn't fit, if he hadn't worn it in a year or more, if he didn't love it - donate. We ended up with two bulging garbage bags ready for dispatch.

Then I had DH put together two complete looks for the dressiest occaision he might encounter (something he might panic about since so much of his former biz apparel had been discharged). That done, we moved to 'better' weekend wear, and also had a talk about golf shirts as 'gear' vs 'work wear'. Then we put together some work appropriate outfits mixing casual items with dressier things in combinations DH hadn't thought of, including some items he thought might be orphaned since he had dispatched what he thought of as their companion pieces. He feels better equipped to dress 'for the life he lives' now, and going into the future.

Though we probably reduced things by 40%, DH's shopping list for new items is very modest. He still doesn't see fashion as 'fun' but he enjoyed the attention, and expressed some relief that he will go into the new year dressed in a more cohesive manner!