Most women know that moment, when you reluctantly accept that most of what's crammed inside the wardrobe just isn't you' any more - and it will all have to go.

Most women know that moment, when you reluctantly accept that most of what's crammed inside the wardrobe just isn't you' any more - and it will all have to go.

For Scottish Ballet, that moment can't be put off any longer.

In the course of next year, the company will relocate to new headquarters now under construction at Glasgow's Tramway and there's an urgent need to declutter before the removal men arrive.

More than 2000 costumes, all with an intriguing part of the company's long and proud history sewn into them, will be made available to any interested buyers over the next two days, along with various bits of memorabilia and bric-a-brac that include posters, programmes and signed pointe shoes.

Among the tutus and tiaras are covetable designs by Lez Brotherston and Jasper Conran, whose gloriously ornate creations for Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty in the 1990's saw volunteer fingers all over Glasgow - mine included - sewing thousands of individual bugle beads onto fairy-tale frocks of devore velvet.

Scottish Ballet's spring-clean sale will take place today between 2pm and 5pm and tomorrow from 10am until 5pm at 261 West Princes Street, Glasgow.