Spring will be upon us before we know it. This is the time to turn your attention to improving your closet. You don’t want to be caught unaware.
The trick to closet improvement is quite simple and it can be applied to anything. Shoes, cufflinks, ties, friends, whatever. I’ll apply it to suits. You need to buy a shitload of these. As many as you can for as cheap as you can. You’ll find that these quickly organize themselves into a hierarchy. You have your good suits, your work suits and your at home suits.
The temptation is to replace the bottom of your closet first. To get rid of the bad suits.
Don’t do it.
Once you have the raw material, work on the top of your closet. Save your pennies and buy a really good suit when you can. This drives your top suits down and your bottom ones out. The best way to get rid of your bottom is to raise your top. It creates a better standard. Your middle suits become your worst suits.
If you simply buy more bad suits, your standard never rises. You just waste money, time and effort. Believe, I spent years in that pursuit. Entropy itself will work against you and, before you know it, you don’t even have any suits.
Using my approach you’ll find that your wardrobe changes slowly but always for the better. My worst was, three years ago, my best. The beauty of a suit is that it’s never quite fashionable but always stylish. Three years is nothing.
It’ll be another ten before I’m where I really want to be.
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Nadia Lewis
February 22, 2009 at 6:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I completely agree!
Hierarchies are a great tool for getting rid of any type of thing too: I open my closet, pick out all the dresses, then sort them from best to worst. The bottom 20% can go — it always can.
I’ve never met a woman who couldn’t use to chop the bottom 20 from her wardrobe. This frees room to add from the top.
Ryan Oakley
February 24, 2009 at 1:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Just add to the top and that kills the bottom. If you kill the bottom first, you don’t make room at the top. You’re not trying to clear space so much as you are to push out. The space is finite.
At least, for me it is.
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February 24, 2009 at 12:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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