Master Clothing List

To recap from yesterday, I’m tired of always feeling like I’m totally out of clothes and haring a bare-bones wardrobe just because I never want to shell out a bunch of money at a time.  And then when I do spend money, I feel like the clothes wear out so quickly.  Which makes sense if you think about it, because one pair of pants is going to wear out a lot faster than if you have a few pairs on the go at once.

I bought quite a few clothes last year, so I actually have a lot of these pieces, I just wanted a big master list of all the different clothes I would like in my wardrobe at any one time.  The next trick will be for me to get into the habit of actually getting rid of clothes when they are worn out instead of continuing to wear things that have holes in them for several months.

Another motive is that I feel like every time I buy clothes I gravitate towards the same items and then end up with too many of them, and never buy others.  I have probably 8 casual dresses that I wear and only 1 pair of pants.  Not because I like wearing dresses more, just because I don’t like ordering pants because I don’t know if they will fit.  Hopefully this will steer me in the right direction.

Exercise

• 2 pants
• 2 capris
• 3 sports bra
• 1 pair running shoes
• 5 running tops
• 1 bathing suit
• 1 pair goggles
• 1 pair flip flops (keep @ pool)
• coverup dress to wear to and from pool

Casual (what I wear all the time now…. when I have a legal job eventually this will be relegated to evenings, weekends, and the occasional casual Friday)

• 4 leggings (2 long 2 capri)
• 4 long sleeve shirts
• 4 t shirts
• 2 comfy hoodies
• 3 skirts
• 6 dresses (some winter, some summer???)
• 3 pairs pants
• 2 warms sweaters
• 2 cardigans
• 1 pair casual runners
• 2 pairs flip flops
• 1 pair birkenstocks
• 1 pair plastic flip flops
• 4 pairs pjs

Work

• 4 suits
• 3 fancy cardigans
• 2 pairs work shoes
• tights?
• 12 tops

Special Occasion

• 2 special occasion fancy pants dresses (do you only need one?  I put two because of probably going to weddings with a lot of the same people, not sure if you can just wear the same dress all the time???)

Outerwear/Footwear/Accessories

• 1 scarf
• 2 pairs mitts/glove
• something to keep ears warm in cold Canadian winter
• 1 winter coat
• 1 rain coat
• 1 fall coat
• 1 pair winter snow boots
• 1 pair rain boots
• 1 pair fall boots
• umbrella
• small and large purse
• socks of different thicknesses
• underwear (15?)

What is the deal with summer and winter clothes?  I wear my long-sleeve dresses in the summer and my short sleeve dresses in the winter with a long sleeve t underneath for warmth, but I get the feeling that I should have different clothes for different seasons?  I switch out thinner socks for thicker socks, but that’s about it.  I get the feeling that if I lived somewhere with temperate weather all year I could own fewer clothes because I could wear everything year round.

Obviously workwear is what I need the most, but I don’t need it yet, so I can take my time.  I want to (slowly) fill the gaps, but don’t want to buy any clothes where gaps don’t exist.  I will not have to buy pjs for approximately 10 years.

Let me know if any of these numbers sound crazy ridiculous… I don’t really know what I’m doing here, I’m just trying to think about what makes sense and mostly how often I want to do laundry.