AUTUMN WINTER… Checks and emblems will feature quite a bit for A/W 14
As many students will soon make the move from Fermanagh to their Uni destinations Sharon Irvine gives some tips on clearing out your wardrobes. What to keep and what must go, its time to be ruthless…
I highly recommend that everyone does a wardrobe clear out at least once a year. You never realise how much stuff you stash away until you start to sort through it all.
As I write this I am in the middle of moving house and until now I never realised how out of control my wardrobe is.
I am sure I am not the only person in Fermanagh currently moving house and this article will probably be very relevant to a lot of students who are moving out of Fermanagh to start their new life at University.
If you are anything like me and find it difficult to part with your clothes doing a clear out can be a daunting task.
My golden rule is if you haven’t worn it in the last year then it’s not worth keeping.
If you have time to sort through properly you should make three piles, one for keeping, one for charity shops and one for recycling. I usually separate the things I keep into autumn winter and spring summer piles so that I can store one away in another room to make more space in my wardrobe (though this is probably why I convince myself that I have less than I actually do).
Usually when I am doing a wardrobe clear out I will hold on to items that I think I can alter or fix and put them in an ‘alterations pile’ however because I’m moving house and my alteration pile is getting beyond a joke I have had to be ruthless and just get rid of a lot of it.
Items that are either in need of or beyond repair can be bagged up and brought to a local ‘cash for clothes’ outlet. It will surprise you how much you can get for a load of junk that you might otherwise just have thrown in the bin. At least in this case the clothes are recycled and not added to landfill.
When it comes to my current wardrobe I will always keep things that are in season and on trend. Although it is not technically autumn yet it certainly feels like it so I feel now is as good a time as any to prepare for autumn winter and say goodbye to my summer wardrobe.
You may think this means saying goodbye to bright colours and prints however this is not the case for the coming season. Striking colours such as hot pinks, electric blue, zingy oranges and lemons will stay with us well into the winter months.
Also hold onto anything with a 60s vibe as this will be big news for autumn winter.
An obvious thing for autumn winter is knitwear but in particular layering. Make extra room in your wardrobe for thick cable knits, gillets and faux fur and if you have coloured fur or shearling coats most definitely hold on to these.
An autumn winter wardrobe can often be a problem because it takes up so much space.
Not only do you have bulkier clothes to contend with but also coats, scarves and boots and it’s difficult to find space for it all.
One important thing to remember is that one good investment not only takes up much less space than three or four poor quality items but will also last much longer.
