Organizing Clothing

 Basics in Organizing a Wardrobe

There are a few different thoughts on organizing clothing. It would be best if you choose which works best for you.

• Hang matching outfits together.
• Put seasonal outfits together.
• Put dressy or work or sports outfits together.
• Put matching purses, belts, and shoes together.
• Put color codes together.

However, I think some methods might differ from the above because there are not ample closet spaces for most people.

Here’s what we did in our home.

Both of us have a tall 6-drawer dresser. We use different, drawer specific combinations for storing our clothing.

• The top two drawers are for seldom worn articles of underwear, stockings, etcetera.
• The most often worn underwear are in the two middle drawers.
• The bottom two drawers are summer and winter wear, which we trade out according to seasonal changes.

Each of us has half of our eight-foot-wide, twenty-three-inch deep closet to use. We divide it down the middle.

His Side

Hanging items

• The top pole (running front to back) has short sleeve dress shirts.
• The bottom pole (running front to back) has long sleeve dress shirts.

Shelves containing clothing from top to bottom

• Sweaters
• Lounge pants/shorts
• Tee shirts
• Tee shirts
• Tee shirt/rarely worn dressier pants.
• Jeans

Underneath the shelves are the shoes.

Her Side

Hanging items

• The top pole (running front to back) has two and three-piece outfit sets, skirts, dresses.
• The bottom pole (running front to back) has long sleeve dress shirts, short sleeve dress shirts, lightweight jackets.

Shelves containing clothing from top to bottom

• Sweaters
• Sweaters
• Tee shirts
• Tee shirts
• Tee shirt/rarely worn dressier pants.
• Jeans

Underneath the shelves are the shoes.

The space between the shelves and the hanging clothes are two hooks are two wall hooks to hang purses.

Notes

• I don’t wear many long-sleeved blouses as I tend to ruin the sleeves at the wrist doing things around the house. Sweaters and light-weight jackets fill that void.
• Yes, I am proactive in folding the clothing so that it fits on the shelves.
• When all our clothing is clean, it fits the available space.
• I keep a bag nearby to place clothing that we don’t want to wear anymore to give it away.
• We have a separate closet for motorcycle gear and outdoor wear.
• Clothes hampers are at or in the bathroom.
• Similar colors are together in the closet. It is a natural progression as I wash similar colors together in the washing machine.