Capsule wardrobes inspired by art and nature
2011
Dreaming about Paris, I talked about the joys of Paris shopping: Diwali.
2012
As we looked at all of the (sort of) timeless advice from old style books, we considered 12 ways to wear a blouse: Hot Tips by Frances Patiky Stein.
2013
I'm always thinking about travel! This Navy and Hot Pink Capsule travel Wardrobe based on 2 scarves still looks pretty attractive- clothes surely shouldn't lose their appeal after 1 year, right? ... View the Post
Belovedest and I were married at the Chicago Cultural Center - the former Chicago Library. It's just a couple of blocks from where we now live, and it's a treasure of downtown Chicago.
On Saturdays, they schedule civil wedding ceremonies every 15 minutes in one of the beautiful rooms that overlooks Michigan Avenue. The whole crowd is great fun - weddings about to happen, or wedding that are just ending.
The rest of the time, the center has concerts at lunch time, a small cafe, a center with tourist information, and temporary art exhibits...
And now, it has these stickers on all of the doors. ... View the Post
Let's see if we can jointly make sense out of all of this, shall we? First off, working from the list of garments in Ma To-Do List: Dressing, I chose these garments as the Winter Capsule:
Yes, they suggested sleeveless tops for layering. The authors are in France, not Chicago...
In order to anchor all of this in some neutrals, I'm going to pull in seven simple, neutral garments to act as the core of all of these lists.
So I pulled out the outerwear and the swim suit, and this is the ensemble wardrobe that you have if you take their four "capsule wardrobe" suggestions together:
Frankly, I think this isn't a bad wardrobe at all. There are enough neutrals here to give you plenty of options for building ... View the Post
It's become apparent that many of us aren't clear on what exactly this book intends for us to actually DO with these lists... My approach, with the choices that I've been making, has been to assume that someone has a very basic, simple "whatever's clean" wardrobe, and that these are the additional garments, season by season, that are added to that wardrobe in order to fill it in and make it sing and dance. Tomorrow, when I show the winter wardrobe, I'll also show all of the clothes together, and I think it might become a bit clearer what the authors have in mind. I think. Maybe its just what I have in mind... ... View the Post
