I am a returned sewer (after a 40 year hiatus!) and I live by the sea too (Victoria BC Canada) so when I saw "Sea Salt and Stitches" I thought, "This is me!" I returned to sewing almost 2 years ago (my husband for my 60th birthday suggested we set me up with a sewing centre since I had spoken of it so wistfully over the years) and I'm enormously struggling with this planned wardrobe concept. It's so new to me having just bought what I wanted over the years and although I thought I was rather good at thinning out my wardrobe fairly regularly it would seem I am not. I tend to hang onto favourites for YEARS :) and there is no way to do that, buy the odd item AND sew my own clothes too. Where on earth would I even wear so many clothes never mind store them? I was just watching a video by Peggy at Silouette patterns who describes 25 items for your wardrobe and ditching the rest :) 11 tops, 2 skirts and 5 pants (Yes I did point out to her that that didn't total 25!) and that would mean a considerable amount of clothing off to the thrift store!