Beautiful collection, Cordy! I noticed the two Ciels du feux and a Smiles in the 3rd millenary (or Pearls de Turkana - same artist). I personally think shopping between seasons is tough, the summery stuff is on sale and fleeting and the autumn stuff hasn't really started to arrive yet.
Orange next to green in a print is going to be different than orange next to yellow or red. I think your reaction to orange is "colored" (sorry for pun) by the colors that are next to it or a part of your outfit. The appearance of colors changes in relationship to the other colors they are combined with. Because of this I wouldn't automatically reject things with orange.
Color coordination has to do with analogous and complementary colors on the color wheel. Colors look different (that is, better or worse, more or less prominent, etc.) depending on what they are paired with. I think you have a very nice manageable collection of HS; there's no reason to reduce it. Hopefully you can find clothing that works with these orangey scarves b/c you have such a nice collection. It's obvious you thought your purchases out very carefully, you didn't just go ga-ga.
I lost another 5 lb by stuffing self with popcorn. I have a huge sweet tooth but a nurse once told me to learn to love salty snacks. (I know from experience that one sweet thing could lead to another with me). I think he was right even tho a doc objected to that b/c salt increases risk of hypertension. Fortunately, my readings are ok despite the popcorn. Now every day is popcorn day.
So, long story short, wore a embossed brocade vest in an Asian print (it is a bit more subdued than it sounds) for the first time in about a decade. It fit well then but I noticed that now the vest rides up in the back and toward my neck. That's a fitting problem. Back has probably gotten slightly more rounded from spending tons of time hunched over computers + aging. I didn't foresee that I'd have fitting problems due to shifting body contours. This makes a difference in what I should keep in closet.
A successful closet purge is never finished . . . I make repeated passes through the clothing. I also get obsessed with particular colors. Does anyone else have this tendency? So I have a lot of coral b/c that color was in fashion a year or so ago, a lot of teal green for the same reason. Have I touched either of these colors recently? Naw. So I must deliberately plan on wearing them.
I've decided I'm now obsessed with a blue I think of as a Chinese blue, which to me is a vivid medium blue with a slight undertone of green. Probably like blue b/c hair is graying in front.
I don't ever focus on neutrals, I focus on color and tend to have monochromatic outfits. Today wore a vivid yellow dress with a light undertone of green, a citron. Hadn't worn that color for a couple of years from the time I was obsessed with it. But now I see newscasters and other women on tv in a vivid yellow. It's time for me to get some more mileage out of citron.
I love the wardrobe discussions on this thread.
Erm, we have way too many things that we don't use that we shouldn't be keeping but DH is sentimental with photos, videos to be digitized, etc that there's all these extra stuff.
(But the home brew is more potent). 
