31 Days {Day 2}: Inside my Closet

31 Days {Day 2}

I started yesterday pulling out all my clothes for Project 333.  It was a lot, even though I pride myself on having a small wardrobe by American standards, or maybe that's denial?  It was time to transition some summer clothes anyway, so that part was easy.  Immediately I put all the summer clothes into bags to deal with later.  Then I laid all the possibilities on the bed so I could coordinate outfits and also count the items.  It really felt like packing.

The problem that I knew I would encounter is that it's still summer heat here.  What I decided to do is build a wardrobe of layering pieces to wear now.  I can wear my sleeveless shirts now and add the sweater when it gets cold.  Cold is relative here in Houston.  Cold is 60 degrees although it does get in the 30s here.  To remedy that problem, I decided to leave a few items open for me to add later so I actually have less than 33 items at the moment.  I just couldn't hang a turtleneck wool sweater in my closet now.  It's too weird.

Narrowing down what jewelry I would possibly want to wear for the next few months made me a little uneasy.  I mean how am I going to know what I feel like on a particular day?  Then I realized that this is a first world problem, picked two pairs of earrings and a necklace and moved on.

Shoes are already a small part of my wardrobe in the winter so I was able to fairly easily take out the summer and only be left with a few.  Goodness, though, it's not easy to think about what shoes go with what pants.  I think I may just eliminate my dress pants altogether so I don't have to add those shoes with a heel.  It's going to be a super casual three months, people!

These are my pants, sweaters and blazers

and my shirts

I also picked one purse to carry for the next three months.  I really only use two in the winter anyway.  One is camel and the other is metallic silver.  I just held up each of them to see what matched the most things and the camel colored won.

There may be some tweaking over the next week to make sure I chose well.  Ultimately the idea is to live with less items and I'm pretty sure I can do that.  I may even take out some of the shirts so that I can add some warmer sweaters later.  I live in turtlenecks in the winter.  Brrr, even in our house we keep it at 65 degrees.  In fact I just talked myself into it as I look at the picture above as I'll be laughing at those spaghetti straps soon enough.

Any advice for me from Project 333 veterans?  Who's doing this with me? How about you Vivienne? Does anyone think this is crazy?  The funny thing is that was listening to Confessions of a Shopaholic on audiobook while I did this, which is a nice contradiction in itself!