SPRING CLEANING

Spring is in the air and while I mostly associate this glorious season with shedding my opaque black tights and baring some leg, it also makes me muse about spring cleaning. As I’ve already disclosed, I am the Lego Tyrant. I hate to see little pieces all over the place in several rooms. I like to see them stored – color coded – neatly into compartmentalized containers bought from the Container Store. My house is tiny but we have A LOT of stuff. Much of our stuff is junque – you know, stuff you really don’t need but can’t help acquiring for one reason or another. As you’ve probably deduced by now, I buy unnecessary shoes. I certainly don’t need all of them, but I very much consider them works of art. I really appreciate how exquisite, beautiful and sculptural they can be. I have many pairs that I’ve purchased throughout the years but have never worn. This isn’t really because I don’t have opportunity to wear them – it is mostly because they are stashed in an unorganized fashion in nooks and crannies throughout my small house and I have forgotten about them. Under the bed. In the linen closet. In the attic. On the floor of my closet. Hanging from my sons’ closets in canvas hanging over the door organizers. Just like Legos, I don’t like to see my shooze all over the place – so I hoard them out of sight. And that’s why I knew I had to find a solution where I could treasure my babies in a codified manner and not neglect any of them by forgetting any one of their existences. So I did a little research and that’s when my life – and my closet – changed. I discovered the My Style Fashion Assistant application http://www.mystyleapp.com/site/  and downloaded it immediately onto my iPhone.

This is an amazing fashion tool that you can download to your iPhone where you take digital pictures of all categories – not just shooze – of your clothes and accessories. You end up cataloguing and inventorying all of your belongings. Then, the gurly girl fun part begins…you get to play Paper Dolls! The application has a revolutionary three part panel slider where you can create and make outfits – there is a top panel for tops (shirts, blouses, sweaters, jackets, etc), a middle panel for bottoms (jeans, skirts, shorts, pants,etc.) and a lower panel for shoes (there is also a format that is 2 paneled – for dresses and then shooze). Then, you can throw in your accessories too (jewelry, handbags, etc…) And while it does take a while to initially catalogue and enter all of your junque, once it’s done it is so much fun to play dress up. I can ride the train home from work – on my way to a dinner out with the hubby and friends – and not have a closet crisis when I get home. That’s because on the train, I look through my stuff and figure out combinations of what I want to wear – all without the cyclone that normally ensues with a “I have nothing to wear” crisis. It also helps me to revive old favorites that I forgot I loved so much. Another great upside is that I no longer buy a dozen black button down shirts…because if I am tempted in a store, I whip out my iPhone and am visually reminded that I have six nearly identical shirts at home in the back of my crammed closet and really don’t need to waste the money on purchasing a seventh.

I’m seriously in love with this new app. Not only is it fun and girly, it’s a time saver, money saver and great organizational tool for the chicest of fashionistas around. So download it now and have fun whipping your closet into shape.