The author shares her minimalist wardrobe tips, which include a wardrobe audit, focusing on thoughtful details, fine fabrics, and interesting textures. She suggests building a minimalist wardrobe by evaluating your current wardrobe and identifying the number of items you wear most frequently and feel most comfortable in. Neutral colors are effective for mixing and matching, but don’t feel like you can’t wear color.
To build a minimalist wardrobe, put all clothes on your bed, create three piles, and figure out your strategy for wearing them. Limiting yourself to basic colors (black, red, and grey) can be helpful, as is looking for timeless multi-occassional get-ups.
The author also discusses the importance of buying sustainable materials and fabrics that last, starting with a base color like black, brown, navy, beige, gray, or another neutral. Next, pick two or three colors you like to wear with your essential pieces.
Maintaining most essential pieces neutral in color makes them easier to mix and match. Neutral colors can include black, navy, gray, brown, camel, and others. Create a checklist of styles, brands, and colors you love and wear a lot, and don’t go beyond that list if you decide to shop. Sort and organize your apparel into three distinct piles: Donations, Consignments, and Clothes to Keep.
In summary, the author emphasizes the transformative power of a minimalist wardrobe, emphasizing the importance of choosing the right pieces and focusing on sustainable choices. By following these steps, you can create a minimalist wardrobe that is both stylish and sustainable.
📹 7 Steps to a Minimalist Wardrobe
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📹 How I Made a Colorful, Unique Capsule Wardrobe | Part 1
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Yes for part two! Funnily enough, I just got home after living 6 weeks off my suitcase. My selection of clothes had to be purely driven by practicality since I was doing a woodjoining internship. Just tops I could wear to work, longjohns and sweatpants for surviving winter weather and a few comfortable items without paint stains for weekends. The only piece I got a little excitement out of was this slip dress my mum bought in the 90s that I recently dug up from my wardrobe, it worked well for going to watch ballet~ Anyway, it was fun trying to create a capsule wardrobe, can’t wait to do a fun one like yours later this year to travel abroad!
Fwiw – My theory of the origins of The Neutral Capsule Wardrobe saturation (deep breath…): Fiercer competition for better paid jobs (middle & upper management) which are usually occupied by the older generation, has meant the younger generation has had to assimilate their dress code in order to compete & get noticed. Beige/camel neutral clothing, real gold/silver jewellery (opposed to beads & other fakes) with expensive designer handbags is the old aesthetic ie copy their style and you might get promoted. There is an irony in The Millennial/Gen Z Neutral Brigade who think dressing this way is sophisticated, but it’s copying the ‘blend in safety of the herd’ of mid/upper managerial aesthetic of the Gen X/Boomer! The younger generation should be creative, edgy, rebellious & most of all come up with THE NEW! OK, rant over lol 😂 🤣
I never thought to do this before traveling! I took a last minute trip last week, and put together a small capsule wardrobe, including a beautiful teal turtleneck, brown trousers, pinafore dress etc. And it worked out really well. It is so much easier to get dressed! I’ll follow your article next time to curate it for when I take a longer trip. Great article!
I really like your tip that the tops (or bottoms) do not need to go with each other because you won’t wear them at the same time. That said I go one step further in that I do not try to have each top go with each bottom. I love color and unique pieces so as long as each piece can be worn with at least 2 or 3 other items it is fine. The longer the trip the better it is to have things be more versatile. Yes please do a part 2 to show how you styled everything.
Hey, I think I just found someone who fed your content to AI, to create a capsule wardrobe guide? It’s just really weird & 100% AI. The post is available on Medium under the name Ava Robinson & is from 29th of August, the name is “How To Build A Capsule Wardrobe”. I know you probably cannot do much about it, so I am sorry.
at 6:00 I saw that grey oversized shirt and i need to ask about it so: are u hungarian? or do u have hungarian relatives? bc its an “Edda” tshirt and that is an hungarian 80’s/90’s band. And i thought about that u probably didnt knew that and i think that would be cool to known how that shirt find u, when u probably don”t live near HU:)
As a guy whose current style is far from yours, I really appreciate these articles! It’s a bit harder to find men’s fashion creators outside the typical “timeless looks”. I love those looks too but creators like Tim Dessaint and Devan on Deck go beyond that. They’re just harder to find! I came across your latest layering article and while I don’t have any current intention on using your specific items/techniques, the ideas behind them are quite interesting to me It’s cool to see your creativity! Subscribed!
I know next to nothing about fashion/style, which makes it really tough to plan new outfits and know exactly what pieces I need. But I do have a sense of “Wow, that looks great!” when I see certain outfits, despite not knowing how to label them. This process makes so much sense to me! Compiling a mood board then identifying themes after the fact makes sense to my analytical grad student brain lol. Thanks!
Thanks for this article! I have way too many clothes as I love to thrift for fun, I have changed sizes a lot over the past few years, and I also don’t consider myself to have one unique personal style. So I’ve been planning for a while how to reduce my wardrobe and found it really useful advice for the practical ways in which to choose pieces like eliminating duplicates, choosing comfortable styles, and thinking about the versatility of ways in which to wear chosen pieces. I think these overall concepts will help me a lot!
Yes please to a part 2. Intelligent and thoughtful. Twice a year I visit family back in Wales, UK as I live now in central France (a furnace in the summer and I DO NOT tan well…sigh). When I visit my family I have to give it some thought as more often than not it rains in north Wales, so that often dictates my outfits. Would it be too much to hope that one day a laser umbrella will be invented that just hovers over your head? LOL☔🌈
Love this. I don’t own any white or black or beige clothes. I have one sort of group of clothes that are more cool toned, one collection that are more warm toned,,, and some pieces can crossover into both. Literally every single warm tone piece of mine looks fine with any other warm tone piece. Same for the cool tones! I have to have variety
Loved this article! Wish I could’ve found a maximalist capsule wardrobe when I was packing for my winter vacation 😂 but I think I had a similar process to you, in addition, I made a bunch of outfit collages to make sure I was utilizing all my pieces, even though I ended up making tweaks when I was actually getting dressed during my trip 🙂 I wish I had only brought one purse like you did though, I brought 3 and only used the one 😭