Clothing Essentials Challenge - Shop Your Closet

• Step 2: The article focuses on a look for spring, so start with your spring clothing. With the list in hand, look through your clothes. It helps to select the scarf, blazer, and a coordinating pair of pants or skirt first. Stay with colors that flatter you and clothes that fit well. I used ivory and navy pieces rather than the suggested white and black. Make sure you choose clothes you love enough to wear for three months!

          Go through the same process to select the basics for your summer, fall, and winter 
          wardrobes. Selecting pieces for fall and winter is a bit more challenging since the article  
          features clothing suitable for warm weather only. For example, I substituted a camel  
          colored wool jacket for the leather biker jacket, long sleeve knit tops for the tanks, and  
          corduroy pants for the shorts. 

          At this point, you have 

• grouped together key pieces of clothing for each season
• identified clothes that do not fit into the four groups and
• identified essential items you lack.