August 5, 2025
I’m so excited – I just booked my annual December trip to Paris! I went crazy – I’m staying at a hotel that used to be a bakery (seriously!) and was decorated by Christian Lacroix. I’ve reached the point that flying over an ocean is sufficiently exhausting that I want to be pampered when I arrive!
If you go to their website, note that I’ve also stayed at the Pavillon des Lettres (same management company), and it was amazing…
Speaking of Paris:
Our heroine has a wonderful wardrobe in these colors, and she has the fun of balancing brown and navy – two excellent, very compatible neutrals. This month, she found a wonderful brown sweater in a style that’s just a little bit unusual, and she was off to the races!
Earrings – Ettika; silk scarf – Maliparmi; brown cashmere polo sweater – L.L.Bean; striped linen shirt – J.Jill; knit pants – L.L.Bean; corduroy shirt – L.L.Bean; boots – Blondo
I have a polo-style sweater in black (of course), and it can be worn on its own, with a tee shirt or turtleneck under it, and also with a button-front shirt under it! I keep forgetting about layering it with a button-front…
Our heroine’s Weekly Timeless Wardrobe template is filling in beautifully, although she has a lot of print or patterned items missing from her wardrobe – well, missing if she takes the template completely to heart. Those are always the most difficult garments to find, but they can be the pieces that really pull everything together. The effort will be made!
When you split this wardrobe into the warm and the cool components, it takes on a somewhat different feel:
She can certainly wear all kinds of outfits with very different moods….
And her accessories are wonderful – images of jewelry and scarves like this always make my heart happy:
When test-driving new outfits, our heroine makes an effort to mix together her warm and cool colors. This isn’t something that suits everyone…
I’ve said it before – this one tempts me…
love,
Janice
earlier posts about this wardrobe can be found here: Christmas Day Preview, January additions, February additions. March additions, April additions, May additions, June additions, July additions
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Beautiful.
I really like the color division this month.
This wardrobe is classic and varied (combined with a few pieces from last year’s Nash).
Actually, most colors have a shade for both warm and cool tones.
For example, I think the new brown sweater is suitable for summer types. I also have warm gray in my closet.
And as Janice says, wear what you like.
This is one of my favorites, as it combines both warm and cool tones. Navy blue tends to be my favorite base color year round…though I do add in some black in winter. That being said, as I age, navy has become my go-to for my wardrobe basic. I’m not as much of a fan of this shade of green…that being said, every time I see this wardrobe, I’m tempted to veer away from the Kelly Green and Hunter Green shades that seem to be more flattering on me. However, I know that, as I begin to think about adding in some pieces for my fall wardrobe, I’m moving into brown.
I am in the midst of a move…I’ve sold one house and am currently waiting for my new house to be completed, so I’m in a little cottage rental. Being in this truly teeny cottage has honestly taught me how little I really need. I have still brought a lot of clothes for two months, but I did follow your rules about a true capsule and I am loving the simplicity of getting dressed each day. It has me thinking about my life choices as a self-professed clothes aficionado tremendously.
Happy Tuesday to all!
I love the accessories – the new scarf is amazing! That being said, overall this is just a little dark and heavy for me personally, even with the cream/ivory pieces and the lighter green. Do love that green. I do like the way you’ve arranged everything this month. Thanks Janice!
This wardrobe is so interesting to follow. The navy and green page especially reflects my own colour palette.
Janice, you mentioned adding more pattern and it reminded me of something I’ve wondered about for a while. You choose stripes and checks most often when injecting pattern into wardrobes and I’m curious to know if there’s a particular reason for that tendency. Have you noticed that those patterns are more classic or that stripes and checks work better year round? Maybe there isn’t a great variety of patterns available for sale since the pandemic.
Or maybe I’m overthinking this, which I often do. 🙃. I’m not being at all critical!!!! Just curious.
Wendy, you got me thinking…My clothes tend to be black, white, gray, navy, dark brown. with a few solid-colored tops in other blues, as well as yellow, also red. Striped shirts in almost all those colors…Um…yes, all! I think I have only three patterned/flowered shirts among the whole bunch! For me, maybe it’s because the two colors of the stripes are much easier to combine, but also, I like to wear scarves, which are harder to combine with tops in lots of colors. And I tend to not wear those three tops much.
I so wish the Eiffel Tower painting was available as a scarf! These are all my best colors, and it would bring back wonderful memories.
scafos.com Every imagine in the world can be made into a scarf!
hugs,
Janice
I love the use of brown and navy as a base of neutrals.
Snagged those Blondo boots in the sale a few weeks ago….they sold fast.
Navy isn’t as big this year, especially the brighter navy I like. I’m focusing on building out my brown core pieces, but keeping an eye out for the bright navy. They work beautifully together.
Goodness, this one tempts me too! I thought I was pretty much committed to the palette of yesterday’s Klaralven River painting (although it was neck and neck with Bertha Lum’s Pines) but now I’m not so sure. I’m trying to become more disciplined about my wardrobe, especially my colour choices which have been a bit random. But I really enjoy the curved balls that your inspiring posts throw into my efforts! I now have the pleasure of going back to the beginning of this year to trace the evolution of this capsule.
Your Paris hotel looks amazing. What delight to look forward to your visit there.
This one is always my favorite, although I would tweak it for my personal taste. As we all do. Especially the accessories!
I really like how you are breaking out the wardrobes to display them by color this month – it’s very helpful to see them this way. And surprisingly, seeing the shoes separated from the jewelry puts them in sharper focus for me. I have such a hard time bringing the right types of footwear into my wardrobe. This makes it much more obvious to me what to look for to achieve year-round wardrobe wearability. Thank you!