Doncaster Fashionistas

Are you a woman who prefers to play it “safe” with a more neutral wardrobe, yet still want to be stylish and express your personality? Then here are a few tips for you!

1. Know your neutrals: black, brown, gray, tan/ beige, cream, and white or anything in these color families. Navy is also a great neutral, especially for those who don’t like wearing black.

2. Pick which neutrals work for you based on your skin and current hair tones. You should be able to easily tell which work best for you by simply holding the garment up under your face to see how the color affects your look. Does it bring out warmer or rosier undertones, or make you appear pale?

3. Start your wardrobe capsule by selecting two neutral colors as your palette. Make sure that you have at least two or three bottom pieces in each neutral color – preferably with two neutrals that could even coordinate together (i.e. black and white/ off-white) to enable your wardrobe to go even further. Then select at least three tops that can work with each of the bottom pieces. And follow with two or three jackets in each neutral color that can coordinate with the tops and bottoms. This will provide you with a capsule wardrobe that will yield approximately 50 outfit combinations or more, with as few as 15 pieces!

4. Add texture, layers, and designer details such as princess seaming or embellishments. You can also look to incorporate a subtle pattern or print for added dimension. Try to avoid plain solids or one dimensional fabrics for each piece.

5. Add accessories – belts, scarves or jewelry. Here you can bring in another neutral or a hint of color. You can even play with a stronger splash of color by working with an accessory that also incorporates your neutral color to tie it together – i.e. with a scarf, necklace or bracelet.

NOTE:
To expand into bolder looks with color, select one to three colors that work with your coloring and can mix and match easily with your basic neutral capsules. Then follow a similar pattern as before when building each color capsule. Purchase two or three tops or bottoms for each piece you are looking to coordinate with. You can either start by strictly building off one or both of your neutral capsules, or start fresh by building an entirely new color capsule!

One more video about Wardrobe Capsules.. It shows how to build a basic capsule and then build upon it as you expand. She perfectly explains the concept that I follow with my clients, since Doncaster is perfect for building high quality designer capsule wardrobes!

NOTE: This video is borrowed from UTube, and I am not in the video… but I agree with the advice.

In the near future I will be posting in greater detail about how to create a capsule wardrobe – but meanwhile here is an informative introduction video on how to start one. Capsule wardrobe building is about building an investment quality wardrobe around a number of key basic items which all mix and match to yield the most outfits per piece, and enable each individual piece to go further (worn more often). In financial times such as these, it is even more important to understand capsule wardrobe building, since you can purchase just one piece or two and have several new fresh looks! … as opposed to strictly buying individual outfits one by one, which do not integrate into your existing wardrobe, and may fall out of fashion quickly. We always need pieces that are fun, trendy, short term items, but in order to have an effective overall wardrobe, we need a basic timeless capsule wardrobe at the root!

NOTE: This video is borrowed from UTube, and I am not in the video… but I agree with the advice.