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 […]
A minimalist easter … decluttering (again)
I am working in the heat of the loft. Doing DIY, decluttering… I am wearing a stuffy safety mask so that the insulation fibres do not get onto my chest. And what keeps me going is that this is an affirmation of my curated, minimalist attitude to stuff. There is an endpoint. This blog […]