Did you know that women wear just 20% of their wardrobe 80% of the time? Most of us didn’t, and most will feign shock when hearing it, but we all know it’s true.
We have closets bursting full of clothes that we bought with all good intentions, but for one reason or another – often our fear of stepping out of our comfort zone in real life, as opposed to a store changing room – they never get worn.
With more and more awful truths about the unsustainability of the fashion industry being exposed every day, it’s time to get serious about our waste. And that means jumping onto the ‘capsule wardrobe’ bandwagon.
Less w*nky than it sounds, it actually just refers to having clothes in your wardrobe that you wear and not having any that you don’t. It’s, really, what a regular wardrobe should be, but we all misused them to such an extent that we now have to add the prefix.
Don’t think it’ll catch on? Marie Kondo, the Japanese organising consultant and author, just landed a wildly popular Netflix show thanks to her devotion to the immaculate, minimal wardrobe, so we’d suggest it already has.
So how to transition yours from the current mass of fabric to a tight edit of pieces you’ll use and re-use constantly?
There are really only 9 things you absolutely need. And we’ll give you, let’s say, 20-30 free slots to fill with all the (re-wearable!) extras – such as t-shirts, party dresses, and skirts – you see fit.
