Out of Chaos an organizing newsletter
Closets
Recently I have helped several of you to switch over your closets for the new season. Here are some thoughts I’ve had on the subject:
Does it fit? Do you wear it? Is it out of style? Shabby? Stained? In need of repair?
Make piles: Dry cleaners. Tailor. Laundry. Then, take action on each pile. If you have really good clothes to get rid of consider consignment or even Ebay.
Where to Sell Clothing
Michael’s Consignment: Designer fashions. 1041 Madison 2nd Floor @ 79th. 212-737-7273.
Beacon’ s Closet: A clothing exchange specializing in ultra-modern and vintage clothing. They‘ll buy clothes from you for cash or store credit- and what they don’t want they will donate to women’s shelter for you
After the purge, consider your hangers. Several of you have taught me the importance of the right hanger for the right job. If you have delicate knits, padded hangers help clothes keep their shape. However, shaped hangers are space eaters. For men with a large number of suits, they can work well, but only if all the suits are put back on in the right direction and all of the hangers are facing the same way.
In general wire hangers are annoying (just call me Joan) but if most of your clothes are dry cleaned you may as well leave them on the hangers, just remember to remove the plastic, which takes up room and is bad for fabric. You can buy acid free garment bags for formal or rarely worn clothing at Hold Everything or the Container Store.
Client tip: Sharon Greengrass original introduced me to Huggable Hangers, you can buy them at the Container Store. They are covered in foam (like the dry cleaner uses) they too prevented slippage, which is good for delicate things, but they are thin, so they didn’t eat space like padded hangers. On the down side, the skirt clips were very difficult to use.