The fashion editor’s easy-peasy guide to refreshing your wardrobe (without having to declutter)

Want to get the best out of your clothes, but can't face the full Marie Kondo? Here's how

If I opened someone's wardrobe and found it colour-coded with each crisp garment hung on cedar hangers spaced two inches apart, I would think: this person has too much time on their hands. Most of the clothes in my wardrobe are hung on cheap nonslip hangers, or - brace yourself! - the wire hangers from the dry cleaners. Because I have a lot of clothes, and a medium-size wardrobe, and I can fit more clothes in that way.

In other words, I am most definitely not one of those acid-free tissue paper freaks. I'm telling you this because I seldom read past the second paragraph of wardrobe reorganisation features. I usually enjoy the first bit, where it's all, It's easy, it's fun, it takes an hour max!" But before you know it the writer is jauntily suggesting you take a Polaroid photograph of each pair of shoes and tape it to the front of every shoebox for easy identification. Sorry, what? Who has space to keep every shoebox?