By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. In her weekly column, Work From Home Style Diary, FN Style Director Shannon Adducci takes a real-life, no-filter look at the meaning of fashion and style during the time of quarantine and social distancing.
Spring cleaning activities always ramp up right around now, but this time it seems like there are no excuses. Ambitions of an upside-down, Marie Kondo-style reorganization of home spaces abound on social media. I still find it daunting. But my apprehension has less to do with common spaces which I tend to reorganize every day, all day and more about my closet.
I have always found the space to be a constant battleground. Over the past few years as sustainability has become personally more important to me, I have reevaluated this system, option out of fast fashion and using consignment sites like The RealReal to both buy and sell my clothing, shoes and accessories.
But trying a lot of different shoes is still technically part of my job. Like most people who live in New York City, I have not been blessed by the closet gods. Part of the problem has to do with an unrealistic portrayal of closets in pop culture. We may have set some very unrealistic standards when it comes to shoe organizing, but this month I have vowed to finally get a handle on my expectations by finding real solutions. Over the years, FN has compiled a good catalog of organizational tips and tools to try to help keep shoes in order, so I combed through them admittedly over not just one but three weekendsand.
My own personal solution seems to be a mixture of bringing shoes out into the open and purchasing the right shelving. My organizational transformation is under way, but the best part of the spring cleaning process has been the rediscovery of my shoes.
