 How are you doing today? Welcome back to this segment. I wanted to do something on my wardrobe and I get a lot of questions about how I put my outfits together and it's kind of been something recent for me. I was never that big into fashion as you can see. My husband and I have just kind of decided we want to spend less money. We want to build our wealth in other ways and that means spending less money in areas of clothing and food. So this year I'm going to get creative and it starts by me working in my wardrobe. Let me show you what I'm doing. Let's go to my closet. All right folks, this is it. This is my closet. This is literally plus maybe five pieces that I have in the laundry right now. All the clothes that I own and up here I keep my pants, my skirts, some shoes. I like to keep my tank tops and layering tees in this area and then shoes and I really don't have that much going on. Like you can see it's not picture perfect. I do not live an Instagram perfect life. This is real life folks. So I don't have a lot going on but I have lots of combinations that I can work with. Let me explain how that works. Okay so when you don't have a lot of clothes to work with but you know that you don't want to go spend more money either and go shopping. How do you do it? What do you work with? I like to spread out all of my clothes on my mattress and as you can see it's it's wash sheets day so it's not looking super cute but I like to put all the clothes on my mattress that I think I might want to wear and I start with pants first and I build my outfit from my pants or my skirt or my bottoms kind of like you build your meal around your protein and I like to go with my mood per se. So I start with my bottoms, I might pick a cute colored top to go with it, I might go well I want to wear these shoes today because heels are more dressy and I have to go somewhere more dressy and then I'll pick a top according to that and then I add accessories as needed so that might mean a scarf, a purse, my watch. I'm really really minimalist when it comes to this kind of stuff. I don't have a lot of accessories I like to wear but the ones that I do have I really really really like. But I would say if you're trying to go for a capsule type wardrobe with minimalist rules my rule is stick to the one thing rule. So when I was cutting down a lot of my clutter in my closet I decided I wanted to only have the pieces that made me feel like a million bucks or that I really liked in my life that added beauty to my life as the I keep pieces that I really like having around and when I put them on they make me one thing rule means I keep one pair of boots, I keep one pair of wedges, I keep one pair of sneakers, I keep one pair of trouser jeans, I keep one pair of skinny jeans and so on and so forth you get the idea but that really helps keep down on the clutter. When you're looking for pieces to build your capsule wardrobe find pieces that are versatile. I like I'm currently wearing this jersey knit skirt and you can dress it up or dress it down. A lot of what I learned honestly was from what not to wear and a lot of the rules I use are from there so like they like to talk about dressing the best parts of your body so if there's an area of your body you're not super excited about you can detract from that by using clothes on opposite parts of the body that draw away from that. Fortunately I've really come to like my body this year I'm learning body positivity and weightlifting has really helped me feel strong and like the skin I'm in so I'm not dealing with that quite as much as I used to but I know that that's super real for people especially women yeah so find pieces that are versatile for your body type use a lot of leggings with dresses and layering um t-shirts underneath or on top of to make it like a brand new look. I really like to buy used I tend to buy a lot of my things at thrift stores or secondhand stores like plato's closet or a clothes mentor I really like the deals I find there and they're mostly still in fashion not that I know a lot about fashion but I'm learning more of what I like and I'm realizing that's what fashion is it's it's feeling comfortable in the skin you're in wearing clothes that you like and clothes that make you feel really awesome a really good idea if you're kind of scared to get started or you're not sure I say do a clothing swap and what I mean is like have a couple of girlfriends over and everyone bring their bag of hand-me-down clothes that they don't want anymore and you just have a free-for-all and great this might only work if people are your similar size but then you have something to draw from and you can try try new fashion risks without spending a lot of money because hand-me-downs are not just for kids anymore you guys I have loved when some of my friends have given me a bag of clothes and it feels like Christmas I guess I don't get out much. Wear clothes that complement your skin tone um that color circle that came around I think it was in the 90s because I remember my mom talking a lot about it but like if you're a winter you wear darker colors if you're a summer you wear um you can get away with more of the yellows and pinks and and more summer colors if you're a fall you can get away with brown and orange and mustard so like those are types of things that you can also look for when you're looking for really good pieces for your wardrobe like to buy in neutral colors um add pops of color when I'm building my outfit so so I tend to wear a lot of like yeah black jeans gray jeans um white tops gray tops and then I can add like a maroon scarf or um I'm actually knitting a mustard scarf right now I'm really excited about that because I can add that to my to my closet uh so this is my list of list of musts if you're going to build a minimalist capsule wardrobe the first thing would be really really good pants so like I would say two to three good pairs of jeans or trousers skinny or regular however you prefer some people just like a straight leg trouser I do like a skinny jean myself um easy to put a skinny jean under a dress or so I find a skinny jeans are more versatile for me so whatever you feel more comfortable in now go with that two to three good dresses and skirts and what I mean by good that's such a horrible describing word but something that you can put a t-shirt under something that you can put a t-shirt over something that you could put leggings under not over because that would look yucky don't do that something that you can pair with a scarf a print that you really really like a color that you think you look beautiful in these things are great markers to look for when you're going through the use clothing if you don't want to buy used you do you boo two to four I say that um cute t-shirts so they can be solid prints they can be kind of a neutral print or color but I do find that even even prints can be neutral it doesn't have to be a black shirt to be neutral you can do a lot with a small fine print on a shirt black leggings oh my gosh okay I know the legging trend is like in full craze but I just like a good black legging that I can throw under a skirt that I can wear with a tunic top that I can wear to go do yoga like something that's very very versatile that way tank tops for layering I love tank tops and I love long sleeve shirts for layering they both do the same kind of work depending on the season for me and honestly my wardrobe doesn't change all that much from season to season like I'll bring out my shorts when it's summertime or I'll put my shorts away when it's wintertime otherwise a lot of the pieces I have I wear all year round good scarves I love scarves you guys you can do so much with them you can turn them into a shawl you can then look like it's a part of your top if you want to distinguish it with a cute belt don't just have to be for when it's cold either if you want a really thin cute spring scarf you can wear that all year round as well next on my list would be tops with flair uh anything with a little bit of extra something something to help you express your wardrobe so like on this this top I love I put t-shirts underneath it all the time and it's just a little bit of lace but it feels like not just a plain black t-shirt if that means I love cute but comfy shoes stick with comfort gals because I don't feel like you should have to be uncomfortable so that you can be yourself and just not even have to think oh my feet are so I like a good wedge I tend to wear a lot of converse during the week because you can wear that with a cute dress or a top as well but my biggest takeaway from all this is find clothes that layer find clothes that are versatile for you find clothes that you feel good in and colors that complement your skin tone so that you're working with what you got so my other idea would be um find a girlfriend or or a guy friend that can help you pull outfits out of your closet you've never seen before someone with fresh eyes that can go that looks good with that that looks good with that that'd look great on you but maybe you're too scared to or or you just don't see it yourself find someone that can shed fresh perspective on your closet so that what you can you can already work with it I would also say if you have an abundance of clothes put half of it away and in six months bring the other half out and then you it feels like you went shopping and you could work with a bunch of new pieces that you haven't had in six months that would be another good tip so on that note thank you so much for watching don't forget to hit that subscribe button right there hit it and like or comment so that I can know that you're watching and enjoying this content most importantly though go get messy have fun and learn I'll see you next time