Color Your Way to a Well Organized Closet

There are many formulas for organizing your wardrobe in your closet. Some say you should hang all your jackets together; all your pants together; all your tops together, etc. Others say to group outfits together by hanging tops that go with bottoms....but who amoung us these days buys many matching outfits? Not many. Some say to hang all your 'longs' i.e. pants, long skirts, and dresses together and all your 'shorts' i.e. shirts, blouses, and shorts together.

While these formulas have some merit, I would argue that grouping all of your wardrobe pieces by color is not only visually attractive, it's also the most efficient and intuitive way to find what you are looking for. If you want to put away your gray slacks you know to stick them in with all the other gray items in your closet. If you want to find your pink top, you know it's going to be somewhere in with the reds....because pink is a light value of red. It's a no brainer. I urge you to give it a try. Here is my suggested plan for a wardrobe that is organized by color family.

• a) Group all blacks, then greys, then browns.  Remember that the brown family will include brown related neutrals like tan, beige, camel, etc.
• b) Next to the browns put all your whites and white related colors. This will end the BASIC NEUTRALS section of your closet.
• c.) Next to the whites put your navy blues if you have them. Navy is a secondary neutral or "optional" neutral and will lead you into the colored section of you wardrobe.
• d) Next to any navies, place all your blues flowing to any blue/green shades
• e) Let the blue/greens lead you right into your greens and then yellows
• f) Follow the yellows with any orange colors; then corals, then reds
• g) Finish by letting your wine reds flow to plums and then purples

Stand back and look at the wonderful color spectrum that lives in your closet.

The best wardrobes will have colors that share a similar intensitiy. That intensity should be the one that works perfectly with your coloring. When you buy clothes in your personal best palette, they will automatically have a common  intensity that makes them all work well with each other.

Enjoy knowing exactly where to reach for your slate gray slacks or your chatruese tank top. Color is the key to so many good things.

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