Tuesday Links: Because I'm Still Working on the Closet

Happy Tuesday! I'm still weeding things out of my closet, because now I'm all how few things can I actually get by with?, which I may regret later, but whatever. And taking that show on the road, I'm at BlogHer today challenging YOU to pare down your closet, too.

Stylists estimate that most women wear about a third of what is in their closets. There are a lot of reasons for this: we are crunched for space and wear what is accessible, we are crunched for time and wear what is clean, we are crunched for ideas and wear what is safe. But while we are consistently falling back on the same outfits over and over, we are constantly shopping, because we know we need something else to wear.

And then we bring those new pieces home and stick them in the closet and continue to wear the same things over and over, all the while declaring "I HAVE NOTHING TO WEAR."

At The Working Closet, I'm talking about jackets for fall. Yes, the swingy one. Again.

For fall 2007, the look is all about balance; a cropped jacket with a full skirt, or a wide jacket over a slim bottom. And yes, when you look at fashion magazines, you will see wee tiny models who haven’t eaten since the late 1990s sporting this look, but don’t let that deter you. This combination of slim-and-full is a look that works for just about every body type, if you do it right.

I don't currently have a swingy jacket, and since I've sworn of shopping for all of September, I may not get one, but I do have a nice selection of blazers, in full and three-quarter length sleeves, which I plan to wear often. As soon as the heat index stops topping out at nearly 110 degrees.

Coming soon: photos of The Great Closet Clean Out. And tomorrow, we'll talk about why you should keep all the shoes and handbags, or at least most of them, even when you're unloading everything else.