How To Create a Capsule Wardrobe
Learn how to create a capsule wardrobe that actually works for your life, body, and budget. No magazine tricks, no buying everything new, from someone who has been crafting capsules for 20+ years.
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Spring Capsule Wardrobe: Travel Friendly with Color
A spring 2026 travel-friendly capsule bursting with bold color yet versatile and polished looks for the office, the client site, the weekend, and beyond.
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Starting Style from Scratch: Outfit Inspiration and Style Hacks
In the 2025 Starting Style from Scratch series, I shared a collection of items that I believe can create a strong foundation for the closet of a woman in midlife. Today I want to share some outfit inspiration; looks that could be created from this capsule wardrobe to wear for everyday situations. I love making…
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2 Spring Work-Friendly Capsule Wardrobes + Tips To Create Your Own Capsule Wardrobe
After my recent spring capsule wardrobe, I had some folks reach out asking if I would consider putting together a spring work-friendly capsule wardrobe. One of my DMs on Instagram mentioned they purchased the Old Navy blazer and matching trousers so I decided to make a spring to summer workwear capsule wardrobe based on those…
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Unexpected Versatility: Creating Outfits not Capsules
I’ve been wearing the LOFT Custom Stretch Trousers for several years. They’re machine washable, a classic professional cut, match some blazers, and the 14 petite is the perfect length for me with low heels. However, I craved a change of silhouette and on a whim tried the Banana Republic Ryan pants (also in 14 petite)….
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When an Item from Your Capsule Wardrobe Dies an Untimely Death
This morning I went to put on my black sweater from my real-life capsule wardrobe and as I slipped my hand into the sleeve my finger caught on a thread. Next thing I knew, the whole side seam of the sweater unraveled and I had a gaping hole armpit to hem. When I wrote about…
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Capsule Wardrobe Tips: Merging Work and Weekend Style
Hi Alison, I love your capsule collection posts but I find myself struggling with the idea in my own closet. I work in a fairly conservative office and though I don’t have to wear suits every day, I feel like I have 2 wardrobes – work and weekend. Do you have any advice for those…
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Forty Days – Forty Items: The Lent Closet Purge
Forty Days – Forty Items: A Lent Closet Purge This photo has been making the rounds on Facebook and I find it positively terrifying. To see hundreds and hundreds of people share this, like this, comment on this, think it’s a great idea for themselves and their roommates and partners… it’s a clear sign that…
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How to Create a Formalwear Capsule Wardrobe
In my dressy fashion emergency kit post, Lisa mentioned in the comments that the post needed an image of a capsule wardrobe. It’s funny, I write about capsule wardrobes all the time, but didn’t even think of this emergency kit being a capsule wardrobe! I decided to elaborate a bit in a separate post as…
