"Buy this now; wear it forever." This little fashion lie, while beguiling (and, in truth, applying only to diamond studs), should be avoided at all costs explains More magazine's style expert Charla Krupp - a regular on The E! and Home Shopping Network, with more than 100 style segments on The Today Show under her (no doubt skinny) belt, and author of New York Times bestseller How Not to Look Old described as one of the best weapons in the war against aging gracefully).

"Even the basics have an expiration date...Many of us have boring, outdated "classics" that should have been ditched seasons ago," she warns in the April issue. "They not only take up valuable real estate in our closets, but, worse, they broadcast for all to see that we just can't let go." The shame. Avoid this plight by ditching the stuff you shouldn't still be wearing (or never wear any more) regardless of what you spent or that it they still fits, and treat yourself to some new basics. And then say it loud & proud: I have no intention of wearing this forever.

Some of Krupp's picks for new b