Wear Mastery Strategies: Understanding Attachments to Clothing

I am at my friend's house, which is situated in a remote rural part of the Big Island, Hawai'i. Her walk-in closet is full of beautiful clothes, high quality, carefully and lovingly selected and collected over the years from different parts of the world. She feels connected through the fabrics to tribal cultures and artisan communities and she feels too crowded by all the clothes she doesn't wear.

She rarely wears the clothes because she came from a cosmopolitan place to the country, practically to a farming existence. Even if we don't wear our clothes, time will wear them, and we need to maintain and preserve them, investing time, money, space and energy to do so.

What should she do with her treasures? Just let them go? Transform part of her closet into an exhibit, which would showcase the clothes and tell their stories? Or keep and maintain them to enjoy the energy of the fine materials and possibilities in her field?