Hello my lovelies.
Today I’d like to share a bit of an earth shattering discovery.
The idea of a capsule wardrobe.
Yes I know this has been around since the Stone Age, but for me the concept of a capsule wardrobe has always been a bit of a struggle. I viewed limiting myself to an handful of items as draconian, stressful and plain silly! Yes, I’ve done capsuling on holiday because your suitcase drives your capsule right? (And actually on reflection I’ve quite enjoyed that liberating feel). But being someone who rarely throws away a piece of clothing, a pair of shoes or a handbag, capsule doesn’t quite fit in my vocabulary, it’s rather frivolous concept!
Then along came my enfirced capsule, quite by accident -almost literally !
TP and I moved to a downstairs bedroom late last summer. The bedroom houses one double rail wardrobe. That’s it!
As a carrot to lure him down to the safety of this bedroom (he was regularly hitting his head on the eaves of the cottage bedroom upstairs), I offered him one and a half rails of the two rail wardrobe. You can do the maths, I was left with a paltry half rail to myself.
Thus by circumstance rather than design I quickly found myself with an Accidental Capsule.
Over the last six months or so, I’ve been moving a few items determined by my needs from my larger wardrobes to my half rail downstairs and dressing from that. And the items I find myself no longer wearing over time are returned to the mothership, thus keeping within my half-rail parameter,
Through necessity I have landed myself with a capsule which is dynamic, organic and fluid. And all the fairy tales I’d heard spouted about capsule wardrobes, the virtues, the benefits - they’re all true!
I’m a born again capsulist!
Let’s dive into the deets of my accidental capsule. Ignoring the now irrelevant late summer capsule, let’s focus on the colder months, starting with autumn.
This is what I brought down in …
AUTUMN
October
Earlier in autumn it seems grey was the theme.
Grey jeans, longline jumper and a cardi/jacket, brown accessories.
A silk scarf in toning colours.
Worn with a pendant.
A hoodie and sketchers on a cooler day.
I introduced a v neck taupe jumper and wore it with cosy khaki jeggings when the weather cooled.
I added it to black coated jeggings and boots as it got colder.
November
The grey cashmere jumper continued into winter.
I brought brown faux leather jeggings, boots and a cashmere paisley scarf into the capsule.
I paired the khaki jeggings with a black cashmere v neck, a vital piece in my day to day for most of the year.
I brought in a khaki jumper to add to the khaki jeggings.
The stone coloured gilet was worn on repeat through autumn/winter.
Berry coated jeggings came out as the air cooled, here with the black v neck.
A pretty flowery scarf goes well with most in this capsule, as its colours are grey, dark beiges, khaki, berry, black.
Getting close to December the lunches started happening so I pulled out some festive green from my main wardrobe. Here green velvet trousers are worn with the black v neck. I added a dark green necklace to bring it all together and make it lunch-worthy.
This scarf toned in well with the dark green velvet.
I’m clearly happy with this outfit!
So let’s see what my capsule consisted of in autumn.
Bottoms
Grey jeans
Khaki jeggings
Brown faux leather jeggings
Black coated jeans
Berry coated jeans
Green velvet trousers*
(*these were sneaked in on 28 November so I’m taking them into my December count, because I can!)
Tops
Grey long line jumper
Grey cardi jacket
Black v neck
Khaki ribbed jumper
Taupe v jumper
10 mix and match items
Colours: grey, khaki, black, berry, taupe
I class the hoodie and gilet as outerwear so these are not in the capsule count.
Footwear was Sketchers, brown boots, black heeled boots and black tractor treads - again, choices constrained by space so 4 items of footwear, again falling in the outerwear category,
My Mix n Match Accidental Autumn Capsule
Living the capsule life has been easy and stressless so far.
Please join me for part 2 coming up, in which I ditch a few things from autumn and add some winter and seasonal items. I am also then at a point where I can look back on how the capsule approach works for me - and maybe it can work for you too.
Meantime my lovelies, what’s your take on capsule wardrobes?
If you follow the capsule road, how do you approach it?
And if you don’t but maybe would like to try out capsule living, why not give my easy and organic approach a go?
A la perchoine,
Mary x.
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