There will be blog posts six days a week while I'm in Paris - everything's all scheduled and ready to go! (no, I am NOT going to be writing while I'm on vacation...) You will know everything about my packing approach by the time I'm back in Chicago - at which time I will tell you every detail of our trip... ... View the Post
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Imaginary Shopping for a Capsule Wardrobe “must-have” color: Emerald
It's not a warm color, nor a cool color. Perfectly balanced between yellow and blue, emerald is a color that many of us could at least consider... ... View the Post
Imaginary Shopping for a Capsule Wardrobe “must-have” color: Burgundy
There are, in fact, FOUR colors being promoted as "the must-have" colors... I'm going to look at all four of them in the next few days.
I'll try these items with the Common Wardrobe.
And let's see what I could do with my core of black winter clothes.
None of this makes me want to race out and shop, but then I'm leaving for Paris in 3 days... ... View the Post
A Common Capsule Wardrobe, with cherries
Her first name means "cherry", in English. Nobody forgets her name. ... View the Post
The Six Pack! – in camel & blue
I've been thinking a lot about the idea of having a target number of garments to pack. The clarity and focus that this lends to the packing process is interesting, and can be useful if you're the kind of person who wants to toss their entire closet into the suitcase... Today, I'm over at Tish's, exploring the possibilities. ... View the Post
A Common Capsule Wardrobe, with purple
If you have brown eyes with a purple ring around the iris, you're a witch. Or at least that's what they believed in the village in which she was raised. So, she decided to run with it... ... View the Post
A Common Capsule Wardrobe, with hot pink
It's been her favorite color since she was three years old, and she sees NO reason to give it up as an adult...
So are we weary of this idea? Frankly, I know many people who dress exactly like this, and I have at least six or seven more iterations of the theme available, if you're interested in seeing them... ... View the Post
A Common Capsule Wardrobe
I used to work in advertising, and thus I have hung around with some of the most eccentric, exotic and extraordinary people imaginable.
Flash back to a large conference room in a major European city (this happened at LEAST three times...). The room is full - a couple of hundred advertising professionals from around the world. There are amazing haircuts, astonishing eyeglasses, jewelry you've never seen before or since, scarves of every possible description, tied in every way you could envision. Shoes? The mind reels just at the memory. And the socks were a thing of beauty...
But the most interesting thing, to my mathematical, always analyzing mind, is that literally 90% of the people in the room, male and ... View the Post