In my enthusiam for new year clearing out and cleaning, I have been through my wardrobe organising and tidying. It now looks perfectly tidy and organised and I am ready to face the year ahead. My jumpers are neatly folded and everything hung on it’s own hanger with enough space to hang rather than just being squashed in. My handbags are all stored in cloth bags to prevent them getting scuffed and damaged and then carefully stacked in a box.

The final area of wardrobe organisation that I need to tackle is my shoes and boots. They are lined up on a shoe rack but still seem to get dusty and squashed. I cam across the perfect answer for keeping my shoes and boots in top condition - the transparent shoe box. They are available in 3 sizes - shoe size, ankle boot size and knee length boot size and are clear so I can see what I have got. They look so good that I am going to also use them for other accessories like belts.

Since the whole credit crunch, recession thing started, I have read countless articles extolling the virtues of buying good quality basic clothes over lots of cheap high fashion, through away clothes. For the most part, I absolutely agree but there are times when only a bit of cheap high fashion will suffice.If you do decide to take the quality over quantity stance, which is probably also more environmentally friendly and ethical than the cheap high fashion option, you will need to ensure that you take really good care of your fashion investments, so that you get plenty of wear and your moneys worth out of them. If you really do get fed up with them, you can sell them second hand.I once invested a very gorgeous, soft and warm cashmere jumper which I loved wearing in the winter. I wore it constantly for 3 winters in a row. The forth winter, I got it out of my wardrobe to wear on a particularly cold day and to my horror, found a  moth hole the size of a 50p right in the front of it. I was devastated and couldn’t understand why despite cedar wood balls a moth had managed to nibble it. My advice to you, if you do choose to invest in cashmere is to go completely overboard with the cedar wood.

It is also very important to store you investment properly.  Choose nice hangers to hang items and if folding and storing use acid free tissue paper. Keep your investment spotlessly clean. If it is dry clean only get it regularly cleaned pointing out any stains/ marks to the dry cleaner in advance. If you do need to remove stains, there are some great tips on Fabric Link

I would definitely invest in this lovely boat neck cashmere jumper, but I would look after it better this time.