I have few gentlemen as friends. I have always preferred men for romance and women for friendship, but the past couple years I have been working round the clock to become more well rounded. A small portion of this process includes strengthening my current male friendships and acquiring more. One gentleman I recently acquired is crazy. He is superficial, presumptuous, pretentious, enjoys drugs and often makes noises instead of conversation. I keep him around because is a sweetheart, a social butterfly and possesses a unique energy hard to find in most people. I like him and periodically he surprises me with his nicer qualities. An example of such, we were in my bedroom, him on my ottoman near my walk in closet and me in my walk-in closet. We were discussing bathroom suites and expansive closets.
"When I have my big home I am going to build a bench or seat in my girl's closet," he says.
Him being somewhat of a jerk, I assume the conversation is about to veer towards a derogatory view of women's dressing habits.
"Why is that?" I ask, secretly daring him to offend me. I wait for his response, ready to declare that I take less time to get ready than most men.
"So, when she is getting ready I can hang out with her," he admits. A soft expression accompanies his commentary.
That warmed me to him. He's a nice guy that really wants a family. This anecdote has nothing to do with organizing closets, but I thought it was a nice opener because it took place near my closet, which I will now explain how I organize.
To the left side of my closet is a rack of dresses. The dresses are organized by work, evenings, then dresses not suitable for clients or evenings out. Within each category, the dresses are sorted by sleeves: strapless, spaghetti, thicker straps, sleeveless, short sleeves, three quarter sleeve, long sleeve etc. This way you don't loose sight of that fabulous spaghetti strap dress buried between two long sleeved dresses. After the dresses are pants and my one maxi skirt. They organized with the maxi skirt first, followed by the lightest weight pants to the heaviest, keeping similar all together... slacks with slacks, capri with capri etc.
To the top right I have my tops. It starts with under tanks, then moves on to leotards, then strapless, spaghetti straps, sleeveless and so on. After that are my lighter weight and stylish jackets. They are divided by weight. Lighter jackets first, heaviest in the back. On the bottom right it starts with vests, then moves on to tunics and tops suitable for leggings. Shorts come next, followed by skirts. The skirts begin with skirts suitable for work staring with the pencil skirt, then it is divided by length - longer skirts first, ending with the shortest sequined mini you have ever seen.
My most used shoes are lined up on a Container Store shoe rack and the rest are placed in clear plastic boxes. Boots are lined up against the closet wall and behind the clothing on the right side of the closet. As for jeans, Tees, belt, hats, bathing suits and purses, I have them on shelves organized by accessibility. Highest and lowest shelves have the least used items. Outside my closet I have six drawers used for sweaters, leggings, lingerie, bras, socks and underwear. My jewelry is organized in the silver jewelry chest next to my closet with some placed in a jewelry storage hanger inside my closet. My rings are placed in a vintage serving platter on my mirrored dresser. My vintage coats and heftier jackets are in my hall closet.
I organize my closet like this because this is how my mind works when I get dressed. Some people organize by color, by that never really works into my thought process when dressing myself. You have to organize according to your own preferences and space available. When organizing my clients' closets, I always ask, "what do you think of first when you go to get dressed?" We move on from there.
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