What To Toss From Your Wardrobe (Fashion)

 Hi everyone, so firstly I want to say thank you for the amazing response to my first two posts on the blog since it launched last week, the response has been somewhat overwhelming. Last week you had two beauty/skin post and this week you are going to have two fashion posts. If you like this idea are interchanging week by week between beauty and fashion and let me know as lifestyle posts will not be frequent enough to be included in any rotor.

As I'm heading up to university in September I decided that it was time I cleared out my wardrobe. This is something that a lot of people have to do if they are leaving to go to university, or moving house, or moving out... or just someone who has too many clothes and not big enough wardrobe. I hope these tips, that apply to both men and women, help you in choosing "what to toss".

First things first, my top tip is to organise your wardrobe into categories e.g. put all your shirts together, all your T-shirts together, all your trousers together. This helps you see more clearly what you have a lot of e.g. if you put all your white tops together you will see that you have way too many white tops! (I do). Another tip is you look in the mirror before you go into your wardrobe and think about what size you are. Have you lost weight, have you put on weight, are you taller, what waist size are you, what shirt size are you, etc. This means that it is more clear as to what clothes will not fit you e.g. that XS top that you bought three years ago may need to go. So my first tip in choosing what to toss is anything that's too big or anything too small. As you can see from the photo I got rid of a shirt that was in size small that, although still fits me is not my type of fit as I preferred an oversized look, and I also got rid of a T-shirt that what is way too short me and actually looks more like a crop top (not a good look). In terms of the "too big" section I got rid of a number of pairs of jeans, as you can seen the photo large pair of jeans fit me last summer and then the other jeans shown for comparison are my current size. There may be some lifestyle posts about my weight loss and healthiness journey however currently I'm a bit apprehensive.

As you'll see from the following photos there are some very questionable fashion choices in this post, and the only thing that makes me feel better about it is that everyone probably has items like these in their wardrobes. One of my most important tips for what to throw out from your wardrobe is this, know your self. Know what colours suit you and what styles and fits suit you, the brown jumper featured below is a perfect example. Brown is not my colour and it never will be my colour so I'm never going to wear because I know it's not my colour therefore, it's gone. Also over the years I've learned that I prefer a lower neck line on my tops and jumpers therefore the grey jumper also featured in this photo will never suit me and I will never wear it because it's very high and close to the neck. Items in your wardrobe, clothes don't have to be broken to be thrown out, but if you know you're not going to wear them because they don't suit you or your fashion tastes, then get rid of them.

Having said that items that are broken or have significant wearing tear, toss. A prime example is knitwear, if it starts to get the little woollen balls of fluff hanging off it... ( apparently the technical term is "pilling"). These can be removed, but the quality of the jumper never be the same and it just looks old and dirty. So those items are an immediate toss. Also anything with a print of either a picture or of words printed will eventually fade through washing and will get to the stage where the print has faded so much that you can't make out the design anymore and that stage things like that should go.

I have two more tips and I'll try make it quick, the first one is that anything that was a ridiculous purchase or a trend purchase should probably go. Unless it's something you still like to wear, for example the tie-dye trend is done however I'm keeping all my tie-dye tops because I love them. However a perfect example of something that should go is this pirate map T-shirt that I wore, I did love it, but now it's over. Also this ridiculous deckchair print polo shirts has to go. Some other trends I can think of that probably should go in some of your wardrobes include glittery pumps, overdone leather, peplum tops, wedge trainers, and neons to name but a few. (All very 2012.)

My final piece of advice about what to toss is anything that you have duplicates or lots of similar variations of. For example I have two almost exactly the same striped tops so one of them had to go. Also I have piles of T-shirts I wear purely for exercise so I threw out quite a few of them including this Reebok one. There are some circumstances where having more than one something isn't a bad idea like a classic black dress or white T-shirts. But you don't need that pair of hot pants in every single colour of the rainbow, ladies.

So to recap my 6 top tips on what to toss when doing a wardrobe clear out are:

1 - anything too small.

2 - anything too big.

3 - anything that doesn't suit you in terms of colour or fit.

4 - anything that's broken or worn.

5 - anything that was a trend that you now aren't so fond of.

6 - anything that you have multiples of.

Hope you guys enjoyed this, I really enjoyed making my first fashion post and I will see you all on Wednesday with another one.