If you have one weekend and want the wardrobe meaningfully better by Sunday evening, this is the order that works.
Saturday morning is for emptying
Everything out, category by category. Seeing it all at once is what makes duplicates obvious.
Saturday afternoon is for sorting
Four piles: keep, repair, box, out. Do not attempt to organise anything yet.
Sunday is for putting back properly
Clean the empty space, then put back only the keep pile, in a considered order.
The weekend
The weekend
- Sat AM: empty one category at a time, all of it
- Sat AM: clean the empty wardrobe
- Sat PM: sort into keep, repair, box, out
- Sat PM: take the out pile out of the house
- Sun AM: file-fold and rehang the keep pile
- Sun AM: most-worn items at eye level
- Sun PM: list the gaps you found, and stop there