Monday, March 11, 2013

jeans. how many pairs is too many?

After my resolution to buy nothing new for a year, I have begun to sift through the contents of my wardrobe and figure out what exactly is in there.

The first thing I'm honing in on are my jeans.

I currently have seven pairs of full length jeans hanging in my wardrobe (aside from the sneaky pair of jeggings I may, or may not, own). According to a UK study a couple of years ago, this is below average. They reckon that most women have 10 pairs, but only wear three of them! I do, in fact, wear all of my jeans. I just wear some a lot more than others. Here's what I have:

Dark blue skinny jeans - my 'dressy' jeans.
Black skinny jeans - can be dressy or casual.
Blue straight leg jeans - casual.
Grey straight leg jeans - casual, but now with a rip in the knee (adds charm?)
Charcoal bootleg jeans - casual.
Blue bootleg jeans - a bit baggy and faded, but very comfy.
Dark blue wide leg maternity jeans - these may live on indefinitely. I do love them.

I suppose this list could be cut, but which ones need to go?
It's only seven weeks after baby, so once I (hopefully) fit back into all of them I'll be able to properly assess the situation.

How many pairs of jeans do you own? How many do you actually wear?
Have you ever tried to 'cut down'? How did you decide which ones to keep?

(We're getting into lots of deep and meaningful stuff here, people!)