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Wardrobe essentials from Marks and Spencer
As much as we all love high fashion styles and trends, our wardrobes need the essential pieces. These are not fashion in any way, and yet always seem to appear current, vibrant and on trend. The wardrobe essentials are the classics, the items that if you asked any woman what item of clothing they could live without, these would be top of every single list. So what am I talking about? Marks and Spencer recently made a list of the fail-safe items. The list included a classic trenchcoat in beige, flat loafer shoes, a classic black handbag, cropped jeans and a crisp white shirt. Basically all the pieces that ruled…
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Essential Items You Need In Your Capsule Wardrobe
Creating a capsule wardrobe can be tricky if you’re not sure where to start. A capsule wardrobe is supposed to include clothes and accessories that you can use to create a broad range of looks. Your collection should contain clothes that you think are essential and necessary and cover any occasion. De-cluttering can help you to see which clothes you need to fill in the gaps. It’s hard to get rid of clothes (I know!) but you’ll soon realise just how many items you never wear. Streamline your wardrobe and you will actually make all the pieces earn their keep. But regardless of how full your wardrobe is, these are…
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Capsule Wardrobe pieces from LK Bennett
When you approach a new fashion season, it is very easy to be blinded by all the fabulous new pieces that all the stores and websites are festooned with. But there is a train of thought that says that we should actually buy fewer pieces, but be far more careful about what we are actually buying. Gok Wan always seems to get this down to a perfect 26 items. This is the fabled capsule wardrobe, the specially selected pieces that are supposed to carry you through every occasion, mixing and matching perfectly to create a multitude of outfits, that look different enough that nobody realises you don’t actually own that…
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New Look sorts your holiday packing
Holiday packing – not that much fun is it? Trying to sort outfits for each day, every few minutes getting those suitcase scales out in order to check you’ve not exceeded the baggage allowance (which for some airlines is now as low as 15 kilograms). Well, what if I said that with some savvy buys you could get away with taking a capsule wardrobe of just 20 pieces. That’s right, 20 pieces. I’m taking a leaf from Gok Wan’s book and choosing pieces that can multi functional and can be mixed and matched to create a range of different outfits. You can get all the pieces featured here from…
