Part of a continuing trend of making our personal lives accessible to the world is the social network MyClosetMyLife.com.

You can store images of your clothes by type, color, designer, occasion or season with a ruthless efficiency that you can use to peruse your wardrobe from any laptop or high-tech mobile phone. So when the pressing question of will this shirt go with my blue skirt, you can get those answers immediately. And no more waiting until you get home to plan that nighttime outfit. You can plot it out immediately, because you can also log your clothes by cleanliness. You'll know what's dirty and what needs to head to the dry cleaner and what just came out of the wash. If you enter all that information meticulously, of course.

I've noticed a variety of sites where mostly 20-something girls can engage in a visual diary of their clothing every day of the year. It's fascinating for the weird people like me who like to see inside other people's closets, and I've been tempted to join in for strictly personal reasons. I'm wondering what my wardrobe would say about me, if I could reflect on it at the end of the year. I wonder if I'd be impressed or horrified.

But myclosetmylife.com is something else . . . Frankly, it sounds like a lot of work.

The good thing is that if you have the stamina for it, you can meet other people around the world who share your passion for dressing and have enviable wardrobes. Or you may find some new tricks to stretch your existing wardrobe. The site encourages interaction so expect to chat about where you got that hot new pair of boots if someone finds it to their liking.

Fashion experts are available to talk about fashion at different budget levels, and friends with access to your closet can make suggestions on what you should wear with what, but be careful. They may ask to borrow items. The site even features a weather forecast to help you dress for the weather, and there's a community-wide best-dressed contest to motivate you to keep up appearances.

Now for the fine print: This is one of those sites you get paid ''cents'' for registering and getting friends to sign up and participating in contests, and you can use that currency for ''prizes.'' So my thought is that if you can earn cents, you will eventually be encouraged to buy the trading commodity. There's rarely anything that's fashionable and free.

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