What Is In Your Closet?

by Ct Kingston · View Comments

Do you have items in your closet you haven’t worn in years and have no intention of wearing, yet you keep them around? Maybe you think at some point in the future you’ll wear them again. But at what point in the future? Do you have a list of circumstances that would deem it necessary to hang on to clothes, shoes or anything in case they become relevant again in 2011 or an upcoming decade? Or perhaps you plan on passing it down to your children?
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At some point it comes time to clear out the closet. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve worn my black, thigh high, patent leather boots. Three times.

#1. For self-portrait photographs. (Witness an example above.)

#2. To an arty-farty party in Venice, California.
Great event in a funky loft style apartment, but most people ended up trekking to the beach.
Wearing boots like these in the sand and water would be asinine.
Guess who spent the evening being asinine? Yes, that would be me.

#3. On a surprise visit to my boyfriend, wearing these boots and an overcoat with nothing else beneath. This all sounds very Hollywood film-style sexy, except for the fact that I wrecked my car fender while driving there. Clearly these aren’t Nascar shoes.

These boots no longer work with my sexually subtle lifestyle. The trashcan is their final destination. I thought of donating them to the thrift store but I’d hate to imagine someone else wearing my sexy, hot boots. Someone who might have way more fun in them than I did or someone who would leave them in a closet getting dusty. Either scenario would be so wrong in so many ways.
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{ 28 comments }

AlyzabethMitchell

Maybe you could use them to make a sculpture? Seems like such a waste to throw those out!

Dariam Adams

How can you throw away those beautiful boots your body is perfect for them? And I love the red thing, is it a poncho? You prompted me to go into my closet and I can report half the contents inside I never wear. It's too tight or short or too big! lol I think I buy things when I'm drunk. I have a yellow dress and I look terrible in yellow. That will be the first thing I get rid of :) You don't want to know what's in my garage. OMG. Have you ever heard of a thigh master? LMFAO

karenquah

Save the boots!
I have countless items in my wardrobe which I might need for one of my no-budget plays or my very first film. And I may need to borrow your boots so keep them. Plus they're hot and you might need them for the next boyfriend. :-)
And yes, I kept stuff from the eighties, when I was a teenager (haha, guess my age) that I planned to “pass down to my children”. Now my girl is wearing them cuz they're back in style! Okay, so they smell a bit funky and have a few cockroach holes in them but hey…
Hoard! I say. And then some!

jeannevb

First of all, you don't need those boots to be sexy… your brain is what makes you hot ;)
My closet is full of useless clothes. It's overstuffed and in need of a major purge. Last December, the Salvation Army pulled up to my house, and we stuffed 90 bags and boxes FULL of useless things… and that was without my purging my closets! That's this year's task. I wonder how many more bags are going to need to be picked up after I tackle that? I swear, Tina, I wear the same 10 things and ignore everything else. I need a closet intervention! You have inspired me :)

roschelle

OMG…girl you are rocking those boots!!!

mfeige

I'm so sad to see them go. :(

Mike morucci

So you're getting rid of the boots and keeping the poncho? ;-) I hoard t-shirts. They're easy to store and rotate and my staple “fashion” item. I don't have anything sexy in my closet, except my Vans, which are sexy to me.

jesusangelgarcia

I'm with Karen. Save the boots!

I only have trouble parting with ratty old T-shirts that have sentimental value, like an orange (what was I thinking?) tee with a cool image I designed for my band the Cave Slags. Yes, the early '90s were a different time.

Nini

Ahh sigh, this is one of my weak spots. My ex and I had countless discussions on “throwing away” useless stuff and I remember myself fighting for each pair of shoes like a mad woman. Oddly, when he moved out I made an ALL AROUND CLEARING in the house and just sold all the stuff I didnt wear any more. It felt like a great relief. “Getting riff of baggage” is a good thing to do. If you know, you'll never wear those shoes again – go for it- one spot more to buy something cool new for.

;)
How ever … when it comes to bellydance costumes … #sigh

T1theinfamous

I kinda stopped reading for a minute after the photo but yeah its not good to have boots and only wear them 3 times. You have to find some particular reason to wear those boots and pretty much nothing else and hopefully take pictures of it. I have only one item that I currently wouldn't wear and its a T-shirt that the family had made up after my grandfather died.

Karen Hohman Almeida

I am dying. Apologies for laughing my ass off, but there is something perfect in the fender bender while clad only in thigh highs and an overcoat. How many of us have driven sometime in our lives a short distance to surprise our man, or woman, hoping to god we didn't get pulled over or total the car? Well, a fucking lot of us, to be honest.

I refuse to get rid of the ancient overcoat that once belonged to my brother. God knows how many bodies it donned before he bought it at a thrift shop in the 70's for a Harpo Marx costume. It is the consummate flasher coat, below the knees of tiny black and dark grey checks, with big round black buttons. I have saved it umpteen times from the giveaway pile. I am emotionally handcuffed to it. No doubt there is some underlying unhealthy need it satisfies. :)

Paolo Terni

I am happy you got rid of the boots.
#confession: for some reason, women all decked out turn me off. I am talking high heels, or heavy make-up…
jeans and sneakers: awesome! :) )
a woman running – I am in love; a woman dressed up to go to work – interesting, you have my attention; a woman all dressed up to go to a club – whatever.
what is wrong with me? :) )
And I know I should not be judgmental & I try not to be – I am just saying that it would be more likely for a woman to get my attention if she is dressed up for something she is doing rather than dressed up to get attention per se (assuming you can draw a line there).
Tina, the verdict is up to you: insecurity? Odd ideas? Snob?…

Anyway I got lucky – when we got married, my wife was wearing a white suit and sneakers! :) )))

MrRick

8 pair of righteously 'holey' jeans.

Ct Kingston

Thanks Roschelle. The trashcan is rocking them right now, but I still have time to save them if I have a change of heart ;)

Ct Kingston

I don't look good in yellow either but I have several yellow items. Craziness. Maybe you aren't drunk when you go shopping, not literally, but the chemicals in the brain produce a feeling of euphoric drunkardness that makes us buy insane items. -Thigh Master? -that's hardcore!~

roschelle

One woman's trash is a hooker in waiting's treasure. They won't make it to the city dump ;)

Aaron Merrari

Well you just dropped science on me: A.) I'm overdue for a closet purge. B.) Do NOT delay opening the blog update (What DO you call what comes to my email?) based on some androcentric/heterocentric knee-jerk dismissal of the subject matter – I LOVE the photo, and in any event I HAVE been known to buy the kind of esoteric dress-up gear that most straight guys wouldn't anyway. ie: 1950's French motorcycle cop's cape; I actually got a decent amount of wear (and stares) out of it. I've also always wanted a pair of over the knee gauntlet boots like Errol Flynn wore in 'The Sea Hawk', but they just wouldn't work without a dueling foil at my waist, and one can't even wear a little knife in NY. I'm too old to indulge such predilections now except for the occasional masquerade party, but I guess I'm some kind of flaming-hetero drag king at heart. Yeah, thanks for the reality check; anybody want a big-ass beige pimp hat?

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