14 DAY TRIAL // With all those parties coming one after another, it’s no wonder that you hardly have the time to organize your wardrobe a bit, and rid it of the chaos that reigns in it. Sure, this could be a situation that’s been a fact for longer than just this holiday season but, just so you know, you don’t have to worry about it anymore because recent surveys have revealed that it’s not just you, but a phenomenon that affects women worldwide.
In the UK alone, for instance, surveys have showed that £4.7 billion worth of untouched clothes are building up in women’s closets, in what can only be deemed a situation in desperate need for some “wardrobe rehab.” It’s not the fact that so much money is virtually thrown down the drain that’s wrong with this, experts say, but more that clothing items piling up are actually preventing women from properly enjoying ownership of them.
“We’d all be better dressed, and better off, if we were forbidden from shopping until we’d spent a few hours editing what we already own,” former model and stylist Elika Gibbs tells the Daily Mail, stressing that most women only seemingly find a state of relative happiness when purchasing a new item, a happiness that soon fades away.
Proof to that are the 87 percent of British women who have already admitted to buying clothes they have never worn, with six items per person doing nothing than collecting dust in some corner of an already over-crowded wardrobe. The hoarding mentality is also responsible for a significant part of our monthly budget dwindling away, making for expenses that we can neither justify, nor take pleasure in.
“Getting rid of the dross and being able to see what you really have is crucial, and I can save a lot of money in the end. We often end up making unnecessary multiple purchases, and a ruthless edit allows us to see clearly what the missing links are. If a wardrobe doesn’t have a mix-and-match flow, it will never work effectively,” Gibbs further explains, adding that what women need in this case is “wardrobe rehab,” which implies, as its name suggests, getting rid of all those unnecessary items.