April 6, 2025 We've talked a lot about how useful the Weekly Timeless Wardrobe template is for planning - unless you live in a place that doesn't have a 4-season climate! So I went into the template and created EVERY possible combination of seasons that I think exist. (if you find more, please let me know!) You need a template with two Summer seasons and two Winter seasons? (I see you, snowbird!) It's there... Live somewhere that never gets terrible hot or cold? Now you can plan with two Springs and two Winters! I hope this is helpful for you. It's 70 pages (35 combinations, with both a clearly legible table of text and a "greyed out" table, so that you can write over it!), so it takes a minute or two to download. Thus, it's priced at ... View the Post
Archives for April 2025
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April 2025 Six Paintings – 12 Months #4 – Sun, Water Maine by Georgia O’Keeffe
April 4, 2025
This is such a great painting to look at when it's still SO COLD here in Chicago; it feels like water, and growing green things, and sand, and sun...
I always picture this wardrobe as something for someone who lives all year at a place that's a big summer vacation destination. She is always in touch with sand, sky and water, but wearing some warmer fabrics! This was her wardrobe at the end of March:
She was quite smitten with the navy dress post here from the end of March, so a navy shirt and pants seems like an easy way for a "non-dress" person to replicate that idea. As I said before - a navy column is a navy column!
Are the striped shoes too much? She was smitten, and sometimes you're going to buy ... View the Post
April 2025 Six Paintings – 12 Months #3 – Of by Elizabeth Magill
April 3, 2025
I really love this painting - so simple, such lovely colors, such texture...
This heroine's 16-piece "end of March" wardrobe in lovely, and would get one through quite a lot of travel:
This heroine was leaning toward warm weather clothes anyway - when she saw the foxglove dress, she knew for certain that she was on the right track! Neutral shorts and a matching tee shirt, and a pretty merino polo finish off her April shopping:
With her wardrobe augmented for warmer weather, this 20-piece capsule wardrobe could be used for round-the-world travel! (give me a suitcase and a ticket...)
Our heroine is all over the place with her Weekly Timeless Wardrobe plan, which kind of makes sense when ... View the Post
April 2025 Six Paintings – 12 Months #2 – The Swan No. 24 by Hilma Af Klint
April 2, 2025
I'm really liking this painting, and this wardrobe, more every month. The four colors in the background are perfect accents for the colors of the two swans - I wish all paintings were this easy to analyze!
At the end of March, our heroine's 16-piece wardrobe was pretty well organized, and would make a good travel capsule wardrobe for a destination with moderate temperatures - nothing too hot, nor too cold!
Our heroine already has three blush garments, including a quarter-zip fleece top. But she doesn't have a simple sweater, and so she grabs this one! Grey jeans and a grey tee shirt are in her color palette, but a kind of new feeling for her wardrobe. And if you want a tee shirt in a specific color - even a ... View the Post
April 2025 Six Paintings – 12 Months #1 – Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay
April 1, 2025
No, I don't do April Fool's Day jokes. Just not my style...
What I DO is look for a long time at beautiful paintings, and then dream of ways that we can internalize the beauty and colors from the paintings, and express that in our wardrobes! It's pretty fun...
Let's start with this beauty:
As March ends, with wind, rain and cold in Chicago, our heroine has this 16-piece wardrobe:
Maybe Spring has completely sprung where you live, but here in Chicago, we know (well, we TRY to remember!) that we aren't going to be consistently wearing warm-weather clothing until May. But that doesn't mean that we can't start looking at linen, and cotton sweaters, and SANDALS!!!
If we fit these new garments into our ... View the Post