How do you manage your clothing archive?
As I've started to clean out things I'll never wear again, I've narrowed it down to a small sized collection of things I'm just not sure about. They don't quite fit what I want anymore, but I could hypothetically see myself re-contextualizing them somewhere down the line. I think I'm in a phase where I've swung too hard in the "purge everything I don't wear" direction, so maybe looking to see where the right balance is.
I guess two questions here. What kind of rules do ya'll like to use to decide to keep something around in your archive? And how do you manage that archive?
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if you wanna go hard you can use like indyx or whering to track your wardrobe
if not i just kinda move stuff around in my closet and if it doesnt get moved it gets discarded or goes into the suitcase/box of shame
and when that suitcase or box gets opened if i dont have feelings about the thing it goes away
i thought about using a clothing tracker thing, im terrible at those sorts of inventory / diary style things though. i'll spend a ton of effort up front and keep it up for a month before i get lazy and let it atrophy where it becomes useless
by moving stuff around the closet i assume you mean you have an area of things you wear more often and an area in the back or whatever where it's less accessible?
If I'm worried I won't be able to find a piece again I'll hold on to it. I've had an easier time with this, because most of what I'm getting rid of is not that crazy, just leftovers from mfad house/basic bastard style
Based on your fits I feel like your archive looks a lot differen than mine lol. If you're storing legit archive pieces it makes sense to hold on to those. I have some ann d I never wear, but it's too beautiful to let go. In general though, I like seeing clothes on people, and someone loving a piece I didn't is better than any reget or fomo I have from getting rid of it
So to actually answer your questions, it depends where it hits on the "someone else would rock this" and "I'm taking this to the grave" spectrum, and I don't have to manage my archive because it's like 5 pieces :xd:
yeah ill put stuff i think im less likely to wear near the back
and as i wear stuff ill try to keep it closer to the front when i put it back on the hanger
so naturally over time i have a sense of what im not reaching for
then when it gets time to turn things over for the season or when i move i look at everything and im like hm
o one more category i have is stuff i'm actually trying to sell but can't get the price i want
because everyones broke
i just give up and give shit away
like i consign <10% of the stuff i sell
and the rest i try to get like
a bottle of wine for
fully gave one of my friends like retail $900+ in pants and boots
and another probably ~$1500 in clothes
:letemcook:
honestly yeah reselling is difficult and maybe not worth the time/effort for me
i also don't have a lot of storage (both nyc apartment and i haaate a messy room so i have like 2 underbed boxes for stuff)
so i have offloaded a lot of stuff to clothing donation bins and therealreal when it's a brand they take
i did poshmark for a bit but it didn't feel worth going through a lot of effort for like $8
this has left me with a handful of sentimental t shirts and a formal dress just in case i ever need to wear it again. also whatever is crammed in my parents house. tbh i might have swung too far in the purge direction also but it is what it is
id rather overprune than underprune since i similarly hate clutter
there are really only like 1-2 pieces i wish i had tried to sell or make work out of the hundreds that ive mostly dontated
i did resell cheaper stuff for a lil bit to build up feedback for my expensive stuff
but yeah unless youre ok with sitting on stuff for months it is not fun
I think the biggest trap for me is expensive purchases that didn't work out. It's best to pull off the band-aid quickly and get rid of them.