The Capsule Wardrobe Experiment

Thirty-three items, three months, everything else in a box in the spare room. Shoes count, coats count, jewellery counts. Underwear and sleepwear do not. That is the experiment, and the box is the important part: nothing is thrown away until you know. The first week is spent noticing how much of a wardrobe is never worn. The second is spent enjoying how quickly you get dressed. By the third the box has become slightly embarrassing, because you have not opened it once. Most people who try it do not go back to the full wardrobe, but they also do not stay at thirty-three. They land somewhere around fifty, with everything in it something they actually wear, and the box goes to the charity shop unopened.