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Home » What If I Only Want to Wear Solid Colors?

What If I Only Want to Wear Solid Colors?

June 14, 2014
 

What if you don’t WANT to wear printed garments, or scarves? More power to you, and congratulations for knowing what you really prefer! I’m going to recommend some coordinating small solid earrings in semi-precious stones, bracelets in enamel or stone, and solid scarves to keep your ensembles looking “intentional.”  I’m not sure, but I think this could qualify as a “whatever’s clean” wardrobe…

Starting with the dark neutrals we’ve seen before:

four navy garments core of four navy cardigan two pants and a dress

Cardigan, capris, pants, dress – Dorothy Perkins

And then the light neutrals:

beige core of four wardrobe of cardigan dress pants and shorts

all garments – L.L.Bean

And some solid neutral tops:

two navy tops and two white tops from Target for a navy and beige wardrobe

all tops – Target

Finally, the accent colors.  We haven’t seen pastels for a while, so let’s go pink and blue!

pale pink sweater set and pale blue sweater set with related accessories

twinsets – J. Crew, pink scarf – Bruc’s,  blue scarf – DKNY, pink quartz earrings – Toosis, chalcedony earrings – Shanker, enameled bracelet – Halcyon Days, blue topaz bracelet – Alok Jain

This is your sixteen-piece wardrobe:

navy, beige, pink and light blue travel capsule wardrobe

Plenty of ways to pull this together and look beautiful!

six outfits taken from a travel capsule wardrobe of navy,khaki, pink and light blue
six outfits taken from a capsule travel wardrobe of navy and beige with pink and light blue accents
 
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Janice
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Tags: blue, khaki, navy, pink, white
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  1. Anonymous says

    June 14, 2014 at 10:49 am

    This is exactly how I dress. Thank you!

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  2. Rita says

    June 14, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    I don't like a lot of prints, and I would never, ever wear print pants. But it seems harsh to not even have a print scarf sometimes.

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  3. cheryl :) says

    June 14, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    I am a print and pattern girl but this is quite refreshing.

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  4. Anonymous says

    June 14, 2014 at 3:34 pm

    This is what I'm working toward in my wardrobe! and I love it!

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  5. Duchesse says

    June 14, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    I'm not a print person except for scarves, but I do like tweeds and marls, they break up the solidity of colour without the busyness of pattern. So do textures like cables, ribs and single-colour jacquards. Since I'm not a pastel person either, those are my devices. What do you think?

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    • Jill says

      November 12, 2018 at 8:01 pm

      Thanks for the reminder about tweeds. :)

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  6. Madame Là-bas says

    June 14, 2014 at 9:55 pm

    Just for fun and because I am on a "print diet", I am going to wear just solids tonight and tomorrow. I wonder if anyone will notice?

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  7. Anonymous says

    June 15, 2014 at 1:08 am

    Hi Janice,
    Would you mind suggesting shoes? A twinset and black or neutral pants is not going to look chic without the right accessories and I'm having trouble seeing how I could wear this without looking old and dowdy…(It was a standby ensemble for me in the 90s but I would liketo see how to make it contemporary…)

    Thank you !

    Kate

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    • Eleanorjane says

      June 15, 2014 at 8:14 am

      Hi Kate, I know what you're saying – this lot could look fabulous or just plain dull. I think the carefully chosen accessories help a lot. I think another thing that's essential when wearing quite plain clothes is to make sure that the fabric, fit and cut are perfection. So, I'd upgrade those basics and make sure that they fitted me perfectly and weren't faded or pilled etc.

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  8. vintagefrenchchic says

    June 15, 2014 at 2:24 am

    This would be me at my current (boring?) stage of life. I only truly feel right in solids (and a few stripes). I don't mind floral print scarves/print accessories but anytime in the recent past that I have gotten a floral top or skirt I just feel all off in it. I am warming to the "right" geometric prints though. Great post!

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