When Clothes Dislike You

I like clothes. Unfortunately, clothes don't always like me. Sometimes I won't wear something for a while, and when I put it back on, it's changed: it makes me look chunky, or it's suffering from a well-documented condition known as wardrobe shrinkage—when an item is left unworn for too long and the fibre shrivels so that it no longer fits.

- Jennie Ridyard

These are generally clothes of the glad-rag variety, special occasion wear that gets an outing every couple of years. It happens to shoes, too: they get higher if you fall out of the habit of wearing them, so much so that I now need a stepladder to climb into my Stella McCartney heels.

What is a woman to do with all these beautiful fripperies collected over the years, these barely worn items with labels, darling, labels?