How Much Color Does a Colorful Wardrobe Need?
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by leahlw
3y ago
I love color. And as a “Light Summer” in the world of personal color analysis (PCA), there are plenty of gorgeous colors to choose from: After a detour down the rabbit hole of Instagram-inspired neutrals and with my PCA color palette in hand, I was excited to start wearing color again. After all, I used to regularly dress in electric blue snakeprint blouses and dresses covered in purple tulips with red, green, and yellow accents. (Man I wish I had a picture of that dress to share with you.) Someone further ahead on the PCA journey than I am cautioned me that neutrals would actually h ..read more
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Capsule Wardrobe for a Toddler
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by leahlw
3y ago
The conventional wisdom is that kids need lots of clothes, but I’ve found the opposite is true – we find keeping kids’ clothes to a minimum simplifies laundry, keeping track of clothes, etc. (The same is true for adults’ clothes, too – and dishes, and sheets, and and and…you’d think more is better but it just creates more inventory to manage, as The Minimal Mom says.) Today I’m sharing our toddler’s “capsule” wardrobe from this past summer to give an idea of just how little your kid(s) might be able to get by with. For reference, my kid gets dirty pretty regularly and we wash clothes almost da ..read more
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Two Tricks for Feeling Like Your Closet is “Enough”
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by leahlw
3y ago
Want to feel like your wardrobe is enough? Here are two tricks to help you feel content with your closet instead of itching to shop (thrift or otherwise!): 1) Download a free closet app (or pay for a fancy one!) and go create a new outfit every time you get the urge to shop. It takes some time on the front end to photograph and upload your clothes (or find similar images online), but for me it’s worth the creative charge I get from playing around with potential looks – and it helps me remember that great outfit idea I had right before falling asleep. (What, you don’t think about fun wa ..read more
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An Odd Tip for Avoiding Impulse Buys Online
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by leahlw
3y ago
If you shop secondhand online, you’ve probably bought something you later regretted; perhaps the color wasn’t as it appeared on your monitor, or maybe the fit was off in a way that taking your measurements didn’t account for. Sometimes the reason we regret an online purchase is simply that we shouldn’t have bought it at all – we didn’t need it or love it, but we were seduced by the thrill of having found something unique or nabbing a sought-after item at a great price. After all, when you can search thousands of people’s closets with just a few clicks, you’re presented with far more possibilit ..read more
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The Best Advice for Creating a Beautifully Minimal Closet?
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by leahlw
3y ago
I’ve been trying to find a phrase or an idea that will help me narrow down my wardrobe. It’s not that my collection of clothes is too big, per se…I just have this curiosity about winnowing it down to a handful(ish) of things I love and wear all the time instead of always scanning the thrift store/online secondhand scene for items in another of “my” colors just to have more to play with. I think this curiosity stems from times when I’ve had a very, very small wardrobe – maternity wear, for example, or travel wardrobes – and actually enjoyed the simplicity of repeating favorite outfits and ..read more
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Thrifting Mistakes, Instagram Edition
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by leahlw
3y ago
We make thrifting mistakes for all kinds of reasons: we’re lured in by cheap price tags and seemingly irreplaceable deals; we buy it for our fantasy lives instead of our real lives; it fit in the store but wearing it for more than 5 minutes reveals that those pants ride down faster than a screaming teenager strapped into the Tower of Terror. I’ve made all those and more; but my latest thrifting mistakes revolve around dressing for Instagram instead of for me. I’ve written previously about how the neutral-happy IG aesthetic sucked my color-loving self in; this time, it wasn’t color so much as s ..read more
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My Current Color Palette
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by leahlw
3y ago
Pretty much everybody who writes about building capsule or edited wardrobes recommends that you start by choosing a color palette. Some of my favorite posts on this topic, also included in the recently updated “Resources” page: Anuschka Rees; Use Less; oodles of examples you just might want to steal on The Vivienne Files  Choosing a limited number of colors to focus on goes a long way to narrowing down your clothes to a manageable amount that plays well together (aka a capsule wardrobe), and helps you hone your shopping when you want to fill a wardrobe hole or augment what ..read more
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Thrifting in a Pandemic
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by leahlw
3y ago
There are, of course, so many more important issues to be working on right now than what’s in our closets. (Hello COVID-19, dismantling white supremacy, preserving GLBTQ rights, the national mental health crisis, voter suppression, natural disasters, and and and…) But taking a page from JVN’s wise words about the new season of Queer Eye, maybe thrifting is a bit of a refuge in the strange and hard landscape we live in, a place where you can be creative and have fun and recharge your batteries so you can keep doing that crucial work for justice, sanity, and everyone’s well-being. So if that’s t ..read more
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Friday ReBlog: My Current Favorite Minimalism and Style People
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by leahlw
4y ago
Long time no see, fellow thrifters! Turns out life with two little kids and a full-time job is…well… full! In lots of good ways, but also in ways that don’t leave much time for long-form creative pursuits. These days I’m more likely to have time for an Instagram post. To get a more regular fix, you can find outfit pics and thrift finds at www.instagram.com/thriftshopchic. (You can also see my latest IG posts – at least the picture part – on the sidebar at right.) But I did want to pop in here to share a few resources I’ve been really enjoying lately. — First up, in the category of simplifying ..read more
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Thrifting Current Trends
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by leahlw
5y ago
One reason you might hesitate to thrift is the worry that you’re going to look dated. I mean, if everyone is donating their worn-out (or never-worn, sitting in the back of the closet for years) stuff, aren’t thrift stores just full of clothes that are out of style? Short answer: nope. And there are a couple of reasons why – both negative and positive. First up, the sad trombone: fast fashion has made retail clothing so cheap it’s become disposable. Consumers can afford to buy a pair of kick flare jeans – that’s trendy speak for cropped & flared jeans that make you look like you had an over ..read more
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