How To Organize Wardrobe For Work?

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oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 15:38

You need to organize your wardrobe in such a way that you don't go searching for things when you are in the hurry to leave for work. How are you to organize your closet in such a way that you save those precious 5 minutes in the morning?

How you arrange your closet makes the crucial difference between being in a rush or leaving home relaxed. It not just for the sake of better home management that you should organize your wardrobe but it saves valuable time. It is in fact essential for working professionals to know how to organize their closet to their benefit if they are to start the day well.

Tips to Organize Wardrobe for Work

• Compartmentalize your wardrobe. Make different section. In one section keep the stack of formal clothes for daily wear. In another keep clothes for meetings and special occasions. If you don't do this you will be looking for your favorite lucky meeting shirt before an important meeting in stead of preparing for it.

• Organize clothes in such a way that you keep the clothes you wear to office on a daily basis on the top. It should be within your reach so that you don't have to randomly feel around for them.

• It is our tendency to pull out clothes from under a bunch. We are in such a hurry that we don't stop to see the entire bunch collapse. Later when you need some thing from that bunch all you get is a heap of clothes. To avoid this remove the stack of clothes and keep it aside before of take out the ones you need now. It will take 1 minute of your time and save you hours later.

• Take out the clothes you are going to wear to office the night before so that you avoid making a mess of your wardrobe in a hurry. Keep everything ready like matching tie with your shirt or duppatta with your salwar suit. If you have to look for these accessories in the morning then it will be a waste of time.

• Don't add to the mess. When we see that our closet in a mess and there is no time to think about how to organize the closet, we chill out and start dumping clothes on top of the existing mess. This will unnecessarily increase your work load later when you will actually have to organize your wardrobe.

• Organize clothes that come from laundry on the weekends. It is not possible for most of us to fold and rearrange clothes that have come back from washing. On weekends keep one hour for this job so that you can go through the week in a relaxed state of mind.

Organize your wardrobe more as a time management strategy than just plain house work because it can help you be organized in your professional life as well.