anything goes with emma chamberlain
how to build a realistic capsule wardrobe, explained
14 Nov 2024
my relationship with clothing and fashion over the years used to be toxic. my mentality was, "the more clothes, the better". but recently, i figured out that a capsule wardrobe works for me, and i'm loving it. today i'm going to share with you my guide to building a capsule wardrobe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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My relationship to clothing and fashion over the years is weirdly similar to my relationship to dating and romance over the years. It started when I was young, in my early teens. And off the bat, it was toxic, okay? I was trying stuff, getting hurt in the process, wasting a lot of resources, failing constantly,
frustrated, constantly confused, constantly self-sabotaging in big and small ways, doing things that I would cringe at three to six months later, a mess. Okay. I was a mess in fashion and in romance. And that was the case for many years. I spent many years in a phase of trial and error in fashion and in love.
And weirdly enough, recently, both things at pretty much the same time have been figured out. I really think that my relationship to clothing and fashion and my relationship to romance and dating is finally in a state of health for possibly the first time in my life. I don't know if it's a coincidence that these two things happened at the same time, but let me tell you, it's a delight.
It's a delight. Today we will not be discussing the romance half of this conversation. We'll be focusing in on the fashion half of this conversation. For many years I was in this mindset of consume, consume, consume, consume. The more clothes, the merrier. The more different aesthetics that I experiment with, the better. The more color palettes I have available to me in my wardrobe, the better.
The more accessories I have, the better. The more I have, the better. It was all about excess. My fashion mentality was just excess. And in retrospect, I realize now that I had it all wrong for a trillion reasons. Like that was the wrong mindset for more reasons than I can count. off the top of my head. Number one, buying a lot of clothes means having a lot of clutter in your house.
And clutter causes anxiety for a lot of us, majority of us. Number two, buying a lot of clothes means decision fatigue. How are you supposed to figure out what to wear when you have a trillion options?
you end up settling on something that you don't even really like because in order to come up with something that actually makes sense and feels complete and exciting to you, you would have had to spend four hours in your closet just finding the pieces to create that.
Number three, how are you supposed to define your own personal style when you're experimenting with 50 different aesthetics in your packed closet every single day when you go to get dressed? It's very hard to define you in a closet full of a bazillion items. Number four, it's wasteful. It's a waste of money. It's just adding more clothes to the landfill.
And number five, it's a full-time job to constantly be adding new pieces to your wardrobe, to constantly be putting everything together. It takes up a lot of time. And it's interesting because you put all this time into this wardrobe, and a lot of times you don't even create something from it that's satisfying to you because there's too much stuff.
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