The fashion landscape can be difficult to master. With new micro-trends emerging every week, it’s hard to decipher what you like and what is just the hype of the trend. This leave smany will wardrobes filled with clothing items that do not fit their style, do not fit their body and that went out of fashion months ago. Not only is this a waste of money, but it’s also bad for the environment, as fashion is a prominent polluter when it comes to carbon emissions and waste.
This can leave many people’s wardrobes a mess, containing a collection of trendy items that they have collected over the years, leaving them with a disjoined and unorganised wardrobe devoid of their own style. This is where the idea of capsule wardrobes comes in as a remedy to this problem, creating a curated but small wardrobe which will last for years to come and that you will love for years to come.
But hope yolu you achieve ethos? Don’t worry, this blog is here as a guiding hand to show you how you can achieve your own capsule wardrobe and to take control of your wardrobe.
Define your personal style
The first step in creating your own capsule wardrobe is to define your own personal style that you will follow. This may take a lot of thinking and self-discovering to find the colours, styles and fits that you personally love and not what’s trendy. You can do this by looking back at Pinterest boards, creating your own and trying items on in your own wardrobe to see what you like and what you don’t like. This can then influence your capsule wardrobe.
Choose versatile pieces
When forming a capsule wardrobe, it’s important that all of your pieces can be mixed and matched together. This is where you have to think about colours and fabrics, to ensure that all your pieces will go together to give you many outfit options. It’s also important to think about terms that will work across multiple seasons, although you may really like women’s tracksuits, if you live in a hotter climate, this may not be a good choice to fill your wardrobe with these pieces.
Invest in quality basics
Investing in durable and quality basics is the foundation of a casual wardrobe. This means spending time looking at labels of clothing to check fabric composition, spending more on each item, and ensuring that the cuts that you choose will stand the test of time. This includes items such as tank tops, t-shirts, jeans and trousers, which are the essentials of any wardrobe.
Maintain and properly care for clothes
Maintaining and properly caring for clothes may help to upkeep your capsule wardrobe. Many find that clothes such as jeans and men’s tracksuits may not last as long as they want, and this is usually because they are being washed too often and dried too much. This can ruin and stretch fabric, highlighting the importance of reading instruction tags.
