By Adrienne Wichard-Edds

I knew full well as I hurtled toward New Year’s Eve that, come Jan. 1, there would no longer be a place in my fashion repertoire for all the sequins and body glitter that I horded over the holidays. As I woke up to 2008, a pair of towering, sparkly stilettos looked like a bad decision made the night before while I was drunk on the holiday spirit and seduced by the hazy glamour of party season.

Now, all I really want to get me through my walk of fashion shame and back on track are a sharp pair of running shoes, complete with Nike + tracking capability, and maybe some deep-dyed jeans that don’t look like they’re borrowed from someone else’s floor. Sigh.

As I thumb through my closet and dig through my dresser drawers, I remember my perennial goals of throwing out the things I haven’t worn in a year, tossing the items that taunt me from a corner of my closet, guilting me into wearing them — a decision that will make me feel awkward and uncomfortable all day. I’m inspired to purge and re-center my sartorial sensibilities — and pretend that body glitter incident didn’t happen. To steel myself and reclaim my pride, I’ve come up with 12 totally attainable fashion resolutions to check off my list – and perhaps yours – in 2008:

1) Organize my makeup. There’s just no excuse for the powder-caked, free-with-purchase cosmetic kit that my brushes and pots have been floating around in for the past two years. New kits, like Sephora’s ultra-organized train case are too impossibly cute and affordable not to make this a no-brainer of a first step towards ridding my bathroom of cosmetic clutter.

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