Ready Your Closet for Fall Clothes
When
it’s time to ready summer closets for
bulkier warm weather clothing, indulge yourself
in a little spring cleaning this fall to make
your closets more hospitable for your cashmere,
wool and angora fall pieces.
What
brings on the urge to try to wrestle order out of
an overloaded closet? Is it just to make more
room to buy more stuff? Dr. Abby Calisch,
professor of psychology at Argosy
University/Dallas explains that “the need
for organizing or cleaning in the fall may be
related to changes in light and the circadian
rhythm.” For example, she says, days get
shorter and people are driven to prepare the home
for survival matters, similar to animals that
hibernate in the winter. 
Now
we know there’s real science behind the need
to reorganize. And according to Natalie Swindell,
a fashion design and fashion marketing instructor
at The Illinois Institute of Art, many of the
same rules we use for spring cleaning apply to
the fall as well.
”You’ve
heard it before, but it really is one of the most
important rules to abide by when you’re
cleaning out and reorganizing a closet,”
says Swindell. And that is purge items that have
not been worn in more than two years, or clothes
that no longer fit.
“How
many of us are lucky enough to have a closet that
lets us house clothing we ‘hope’ to fit
into again, or an outfit that cost so much
you’re overwhelmed with guilt about giving
it away?” she asks.
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