Capsule wardrobe: where to start without throwing everything out
A capsule is not a purge. It is an inventory, then a series of small calls on what is actually missing.
Wardrobe1 min read
Count before you buy
Take out everything you wore last month and lay it on the bed. That is your real wardrobe. The rest takes up space and distorts your sense of what you own.
Most people discover at this point that they rotate twelve to fifteen pieces, and that they own three near-identical tops bought a year apart.
Buy for the gaps, not for the urge
List the situations in your week: office, sport, going out, weekend. A capsule exists to cover those with as few pieces as possible, not to hit a round number.
If you lack a mid-season jacket that works with three bottoms you already own, that is a useful purchase. A tenth white tee is not, even at fifteen euros.
