Do I want a capsule wardrobe?

First of all, what is a capsule wardrobe?

According to Wikipedia, a capsule wardrobe was created back in 1985 by Donna Karan when she released her 7 Easy Pieces collection.

Over the past year of rarely leaving my house, I’ve realized how much of my stuff I don’t even use. The same goes for my clothes. I wear the same clothes every day.

I’ve always been afraid of getting rid of my clothes.

What if I want that shirt that I haven’t worn, like ever, 3 days after I decide to get rid of it? That has always been my thought process. So I have enough clothes to clothe like 16 women.

But along with purging all of my belongings, I am also purging my wardrobe.

Another thing I’ve learned over the past year is that we humans have decision fatigue. We don’t like to make a lot of decisions, especially when it comes to food and clothing. This would be one of the reasons why we tend to wear the same clothes over and over again.

The other reason we tend to wear the same clothes over and over again is because comfort plays a major factor, at least it does for me.

Since I wanted to learn more about this capsule wardrobe and really paring down my own wardrobe, one of my friends share The Payton Project with me. Payton Dale is a professional stylist, but she created a Patreon for sharing with everyday people just like you and I to be able to get her amazing advice.

One of the first pieces of advice that I got from Payton about my wardrobe was to get your basic colors. And she had an amazing way to find these colors.

Find the album covers of your 5 more favorite songs right now. This is not something I would have ever thought of. But it really brought to light the colors I need to have in my wardrobe.

For me, these covers are as follows:

Based on these album colors, my colors are gold, sky blue, burnt orange, teal blue and black.

At first, I had no idea how to keep moving forward with my capsule wardrobe based on Payton’s directions. The gold and the orange weren’t colors that I would normally wear, and the teal blue was even pushing it a little.

You see, my colors are dark blue and black for almost everything.

But then I listened to Payton again and learned that these were only a part of the wardrobe, not the whole thing. Like, the shirt you would wear on the over a tank top, for layers. Or the color of one of the accessories.

Layers and accessories are a big part of a capsule wardrobe. You have a handful of pieces of clothing and you mix and match them for multiple different outfits, so it really doesn’t seem like you are wearing the same exact outfit over and over again each week.

Spoiler alert: I already do wear the same outfits over and over again each week.

One thing I’m not getting rid of, though, is my comfy clothes, like my leggings and 3 tshirts that I wear every single week.

Before I add anything to my wardrobe to make sure I have my basic colors, I need to first pare down my wardrobe so I really only have enough clothes for just me. I’m not over here trying to clothe 16 different people. And I rarely leave my house, so no one even really sees what I’m wearing anyway, which makes paring down my entire wardrobe so much easier.

Will I actually create a capsule wardrobe based on Payton’s advice that I shared here? Maybe.

I am definitely going to cut my wardrobe down to only clothe one person, not 16.

Are you going to create a capsule wardrobe for yourself?