How to organize your clothes in the closet

by Jen (January 25, 2008)

There’s no one way to organize your clothes in the closet, but if various pieces belong in a certain spot for a certain reason, it can make finding them (and getting ideas for coordinates) much easier. Especially if you don’t have as much closet space as you’d like.

• Color coding. I have all my clothes arranged by color, with the tops and bottoms separated. This helps me find specific pieces, and it lets me hold up one piece to the colors in the others to find a good match.
• By style. Another option is to put all your clothes of one style together. All your button down shirts or blouses in one spot, all the knit tops in the other, jeans in one spot and slacks in another.
• By level of formality. If your life is more defined by dressing for occasions - work, play, casual parties, elegant parties - you might prefer to organize the dress stuff in one spot, the business casual in another, the casual in another, and the funky in yet another.

Just go with the system that makes sense to you (or if you come up with others, I’d like to hear about it in comments). Of course, this doesn’t help much with folded clothes - unless you get a hanging sweater organizer to put them in.

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