For a while now, I’ve had my clothes sorted in my closet by color. But I’ve been thinking this isn’t all that efficient. I wonder if I should organize them instead by type of apparel, or by warm weather or cold weather clothes.
How do you manage this? Or do you have a free-for-all going on?
Right side of closet - jeans and pants, left side, tops, far left, suits and dresses. I don’t have enough clothing to separate by seasons. Shorts always stay in the dresser drawers.
I have two closets - one for spring/summer, one for winter/fall.
I organize into:
item type - ie, skirt, pant, blouse, suit, etc. For full outfits (eg, suit with skirt, jacket and shell) I put it all together
style - ie, skirt lenght, pant style, shirt sleeve length
color - I put like colors together, by darkness - so black pants hang by grey, which hang by navy, which hang - well, I guess you get the idea.
Then I have my handbags on shelves done by size. Shoes done by color (different closet for each season), sweaters together, t-shirty type tops, etc.
That’s about it. It’s not quite as anal as it sounds- honest.
Top drawer–Small clothes (undies, socks, shorts)
Middle drawer–shirts
Bottom drawer–jeans
Suit and non-dryer friendly clothes hang in the closet.
Hoodies on the floor by my bed because I don’t have enough closet hangers, and they won’t fit in the dresser.
I wear pretty much the same stuff all year round (Tank tops in Janaury is not uncommon for me, though I usually pair them with something else then), so seperating by seasons is pretty much pointless. Not to mention pretty much impossible given my set-up.
It’s a jungle in there, baby.
Basically I just put the few things I can squeeze into right now in the front and center. Maybe when I get back out of my fat clothes, I’ll look into organization and ironing and stuff. We live in an older apartment with closets that are few and tiny. Apparently people really were smaller back then, or at least their clothes were.
If things make it to the closet at all, they go in haphazardly.
Things on the floor next to the bed from yesterday(s) (Jeans/Shirts), things laying in the bathroom from this morning (underwear(s)), things in the dryer to wear today (Jeans, shirts and underwear), things laying on the floor next to the dryer that I wont wear till the seasons change again, or that I have forgotten about completely.
I don’t sort by color, just some loose season/style rules. Sleeveless tops are together, then short-sleeved, long-sleeved, sweatshirts and hoodies, jackets and coats, skirts, dresses and dressy slacks/blouses regardless of season or sleeve length, the last section is whatever pants don’t qualify as dressy and aren’t jeans/sweats since those are in a drawer. Lingerie, pajamas, sweaters, socks and shorts all stay in dresser drawers.
I bought a full bedroom set last fall, after adding on to the second story and giving myself a walk-in closet, it’s very odd indeed to have more closet and drawer space than I could ever possibly need.
Another person with small closets, so I have to swap wardrobes twice a year.
In the hanging closet, I have, left to right: shirts and blouses (on tiered hangers that hold five each: black and white; plaids and stripes; floral; solid colors); skirts (tiered hangers: misc. prints; hippie skirts; solid colors); jumpers; knit dresses; other dresses. I had shelves put into the other closet, which is where most of the sweaters are, sorted by color (black, black and white, red, gray; off-white, tan, taupe; shades of pink; shades of purple; greens and blues. The patterned pullovers are in the chest at the foot of the bed, and the patterned cardigans are in a drawer of the bureau. I have a really serious sweater problem.)
From the left to right in the wardrobe:
Underwear, shorts, t-shirts, jeans, jumpers are in the chest of drawers.
I have my casual wear (hoodies) to the left. Then beside that, two sets of pants hangers that hold five pairs of pants each: black and gray on one hanger, brown and khaki on the other. When I hang up blouses and blazers, they go to the far right, so the clothes on the left, beside the pants, are the ones I haven’t worn for a while, and that’s where I pick out my clothes to wear.
I have this paranoid thing, about wearing the same clothes too often, so I have this fairly strict rotation system. I don’t make much of a summer/winter distinction; in winter I wear a sweater or a blazer over my blouse, and when it’s warmer, I don’t. I do have a few short-sleeved blouses that don’t really look good under a sweater that just end up accumulating on the left during the winter, ignored and unloved.
Organize? 
All clean clothes get hung up on the left side of the closet. This means the farther right I go, the longer ago I wore it. Therefore the closet tends to organize itself automatically by season. (It’s also easy to pick clothes for the charity box - start on the far right.)
I’m a little compulsive about my wardrobe. Far left, vests, organized by color/holiday (I have some cute novelty vests I like.) Next, pants hangers - the kind that hold four pair. Next, skirt hangers - the kind that hold five each. Next, sleeveless shirts by color, short sleeved shirts by color, long sleeved shirts by color, then a bunch of super-casual stuff - a couple flannel shirts, a baseball jersey and some vintage Ts.
In the dresser: top drawer has jammies. Second drawer, underwear, divided by compartments (solid colored socks, patterned socks, hose, panties, bras & camisoles). Third drawer: sweaters. Fourth drawer: sweaters & sweatshirts(these two drawers are swapped out for shorts, tanks and swimwear in the warmer months.) Bottom two drawers, jeans.
In the hall closet, dresses, suits and jackets.
I have LOTS and LOTS of clothes.
Hubby has a large dresser and half the bedroom closet, niether of which he can talk me into organizing for him.
Due to current premises, I don’t even have a wardrobe (closet for the Yanks 
) at the moment. Winter stuff is bunged in a cane chest. The current stuff is in drawers. Pants and shorts in two drawers. Tops in two others. Knickers etc in another.
The few must-be-hung things live on the spare clothesline in the garage and sulk that they never get worn.
It will be time to swap the chest contents for the drawer contents soon 
(It was a bloody short summer).
I sort clothes (sorta) by hanging them up in the closet in the order of last appearance at work. I try to always choose from the left side, and hang up on the right, so I’m rotating my wardrobe, and not always wearing the same old standbys. Stuff that’s out of season or too small is on the far reaches of the closet, left and right.
Stuff that I don’t wear to work, or that can be folded, like teeshirts, go in the bureau, as do all the underwear, bras, and socks.
Clean stuff tends to sit in the basket for a few days until I fold it and put it away.
Yes, I often grab clean undies and stuff directly from the basket of clean clothes if I’m behind on the folding.
Stuff that’s really too small but I’m not yet ready to part with (o ever the optimist) is in boxes on the top closet shelf, helpfully labeled “clothes”. Shoes and purses also are in the closet.
Stuff that needs to be mended is in the living room, by the sewing basket, in hopes that I’ll sew a button on or something while watching t.v.
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I have a small closet, too. And two drawers.
Hanging:
First, short sleeve shirts, organized by lighter to darker color (white, pink, red, green, blue, violet). Then long sleeve, no collar shirts. Then long-sleeved collar shirts. Then sweatshirts, then sweaters. After that, skirts, then any pants on hangers, then short-sleeve dresses with short lengths, then short-sleeve dresses with long lengths. After that, long-sleeve dresses – all of these are long – organized by color. After this comes coats, in order by heaviness of coat (windbreakers before wool).
Drawers:
In contrast, I have one drawer for underwear and bras and another for socks. No attempt to fold, match, whatever – I just throw them in. 
Mrs. Furthur
I dislike hanging up clothes so there’s not much in my closet. I only hang up my coats, a couple of dresses, and a few shirts and everything else is folded. That leaves room for those hanging shoe cubbie things (four because I have like sixty pairs of shoes and, yes, i really to need them all, I swear. ) and a narrow Elfa set of drawers. The Elfa drawers hold all my undies, bras, socks, tank tops, and rowing clothes. I also have a big tall chest of drawers from IKEA that holds everything else: work skirts, sweaters, t-shirts, long sleeve t-shirts, sleep clothes, jeans. I pretty much organize my clothes by type and not season. Oh,a nd I don’t worry about color 'cause I’m another one of those boring all black wearers.
To the right as you go in the door -
Upper rack
Dress shirts arranged by color (white, blue, pastels, other)
Other long-sleeved buttoned shirts arranged by color
Short-sleeved buttoned shirts arranged by color
Polo-style shirts
On the lower rack-
Dress slacks arranged by color
Casual slacks arranged by color
On the back wall-
Suits
On the left as you go in the door-
Sweaters
Casual pull-overs
Luggage
Extra blankets, etc.
Shoes go on the rack uner sweaters, etc.
Ties and belts go on the rack behind the door
Dirty clothes hamper and laundry bag for dry cleaning are in the corner