Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
Capsule wardrobes are kind of the in thing at the moment in wardrobe design – but what exactly is a capsule wardrobe? A space-age pill which magically changes your outfit? Er… no.
The original blog post for Week/Month 9 of the Wardrobe Architect describes a capsule wardrobe as consisting of between 20 and 33 garments, “a small, manageable subset of your wardrobe”. But if you’re anything like me, you’re thinking “but that practically IS my wardrobe!”
My dream is to edit down my wardrobe and be very Japanese, where you have one rolling rack and it’s like your four T-shirts, your five dresses, your two pairs of jeans.
Erin Wasson
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How many garments do you own?
Excluding:
footwear (shoes, slippers etc)
accessories (scarves, hats etc)
underclothing (socks, undershirts etc)
formal wear/wedding dresses
nightwear & dressing-gowns
fancy dress costumes (unless you wear them on other occasions; I’m not going to judge)
Including:
items you seldom or never wear (besides those for the special occasions mentioned above)
items currently in the wash (or piled on the end of the bed or other item of furniture)
outer layers (cardigans, jackets, coats etc)