In this post I construct an outfit of the day, from my capsule wardrobe, with the aim of imagining I am attending fashion week. Not exactly minimalist? I think it is… Read on. Traditionally, fashion weeks were the way that the luxury industry established its direction, and what clothes would be sold, for a set […]
How to wear Palewave skinny jeans – a minimalist’s guide.
Around four years ago skinny jeans, especially black, became my uniform. Any need to dress up – out and about, to the pub, to a conference, I would invariably base my outfit on these. Trousers are the key to pretty much your entire style. Along with shoes, they can turn an outfit from trash to fuego, […]
The 7 purchases I made from January to June 2017.
It has been a year since we moved house. For around a year I had been ‘decluttering‘, and toying with minimalism generally. I had also kept track of all my purchases that year with a wishlist. It took difficult circumstances for me to adopt an almost completely frugal strategy. Everything I have bought this year […]
Denim shirt: Two styles. Three ways.
On a weekend or casual day off I will often wear a denim shirt. They have are a unique blend of the smartness of shirting and the casual, easy to wear quality of denim. However there are two main types of denim shirt, and I have both in my capsule wardrobe. The first is the […]
Outfit and discussion: Japanese denim jacket, jeans and inspiration.
For some time I have had a light blue denim jacket on my wishlist. I have a weakness for jackets that work well in transitional months. It is a time when layering something like a bomber or denim jacket just…makes sense… at least in the temperate-yet-rainy climate of the UK. The problem is that this […]