The Wardrobe Audit: What Your Closet Says About The Life You’re Actually Living

Now that we’ve looked into our wardrobes, surely we’ve realised that most of what we own does not speak to our current lifestyle.

There is a particular kind of honesty that only your wardrobe can offer. Not the honesty of what you say you love to wear, but the quieter truth of what actually leaves the hanger on a Tuesday morning.

Open any closet in Windhoek and you will find two wardrobes living side by side: the one we dress for in our imagination, and the one that meets the demands of school runs, deadlines, church on Sunday and everything in between.

The gap between them is not a failure of style, it is simply information. And this week, we are going to read it.

Before I started dressing for the life I actually live, my closet was full of beautiful pieces I’d bought because I’d seen them on Pinterest or on a celebrity they made perfect sense for, but hardly for me.

Whenever I got dressed, I rarely had anything to wear for work or school, because my clothes were built for events and attention, while my day-to-day life was the opposite. The pieces didn’t even reflect my personality. It was a mess.

I had to be honest and ask myself three questions:

What have I actually worn in the last three months versus what’s just hanging there?