April 30x30 week four - YouLookFab Forum

Sal

Day 22: No new pieces, wearing black blazer, black and white striped tee, blue jeans, tan Peeptoe boots.

I can't remember if I am on 27 or 28 pieces...I think 28....

I will add in a ponte knit work dress this week for a seminar I am attending. The second seminar will be interesting as it is the next day. I may have to add some smart work trousers...I will look at the itinerary and see how dressy I need to be.

9 years ago

Anonymous

Day 22 (April 20):

Charcoal grey dress pants (repeat); white cotton sweater (repeat); 2" black heels (repeat); pearl earrings (repeat). No new items added. I remain at 31.

Have a great week, Ladies.

9 years ago

carter

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Finally! After waking up to a crazy thunder storm, the sky has cleared and the sun is shining. Hooray!

I'm really missing the rest of my clothes today. Funny how "absence" makes the heart grow fonder. To that end, I think I'll play catch up with you guys. I started on April 1 rather than March 30, but since I did record my outfits for 3/30-31, I think I'll backfill those days. It will add one additional item that I probably wouldn't have added for our warmer weather, but that's ok. After this, I'm at 27.

March 30 (Day 1 rev): Gap Real Straights (new), gray slip on sneaks, medium blue ON sweater

March 31 (Day 2 rev): Gap Real Straights, Foxcroft sleeveless white blouse, Black AKS sandals

April 20 (Day 22 now): Gap gray skimmers, gray tank, Foxcroft l/s tencel tunic

9 years ago

Laura (rhubarbgirl)

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I feel like a little kid stuck in the backseat, two-thirds of the way through a long road trip, bored to death. I'm still in my PJs and I don't want to get dressed because I want to wear something different! Sigh.

(Funny thing, I haven't told my husband about this project and so far he hasn't mentioned anything about noticing. I'm kinda hoping that he doesn't say anything by the end of the month so I can give him crap about it.)

9 years ago

kellygirl

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Lol, Laura! I kind of fell off the wagon. Too much soccer and too many variable temperatures to have to deal with. I needed flannel three days in a row and didn't have time to launder--so I gave up. With the dog, I can't always re-wear the jeans so I had to dip into my denim stash as well. I'm well over 30. I guess at this point in my life, I'm more maximal than minimal which is okay because I realized I'm not really than fond of re-mixing. Good luck to everyone else!

9 years ago

Sal

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Haha Kellygirl!

Laura and Carter, sounds like we are all in a similar space. I haven't told my husband. He wouldn't get it at all, he has a capsule without even trying to. I will be remixing today too!

9 years ago

Laura (rhubarbgirl)

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Kellygirl, totally understandable - and you never limited yourself to 30 items anyway, you just wanted to track your wears. I hope you stick around either way.

It's the laundry that's getting to me, along with the lack of variety - normally I do laundry once a week but I've had to up it to twice weekly this month, which is not the end of the world but does take time, and makes me feel guilty since the entire state of California is under water restriction guidelines due to the drought. (Yes, the water levels in the washer are adjusted, but I'm pretty sure a full load is the most efficient.)

Day 22: blue tile-print dress, blue cardigan, flip flops. No new items.

9 years ago

Sal

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Day 23: Blue merino tunic, black boyfriend blazer, black ponte pants, black ankle boots.

Wore this because I have walked to a meeting (3km round trip) and needed comfortable shoes. I am feeling achy after a hard gym workout and also a flu vaccination yesterday. No new pieces so still on 28 items. I wanted to keep my black layering long sleeve for other outfits this week so was forced to remix. I actually like the jacket with this tunic so I have another good look up my sleeve for winter days.

9 years ago

Anonymous

Home stretch!!! I'm feeling really good about this challenge.

Day 23 (April 21):

Grey ponte pants (repeat); white cotton tee shirt (repeat); black ballet slippers (repeat); pearl earrings (repeat). No new items added. I remain at 31.

9 years ago

carter

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Good morning. I finally got around to laying everything out this morning. Lots of surprises here for me.

Not counting the belts (which I haven't been) or the dog (which I probably should), I'm at 26 items. Thought I was at 27 yesterday, but I forgot to take those annoying tan sandals off the list. They are in the donate bin.
Where the heck are my cute and colorful work clothes? It's hard to tell in this picture, but 5 of the tops, 3 of the bottoms and 3 of the shoes turn into appropriate outfits for all but one of my current clients. Especially when it's been raining for 40 days and 40 nights;-). I was also on vacation for a week, so those items are included here. I do have appointments coming up with a client who will expect me to wear big girl pants, so I'll have to add 1 or 2 of those and possibly a blouse.
So far, this has been an organic capsule. Nothing was planned ahead. Each day I reviewed what was already in the capsule. If there was nothing there that I wanted to wear/was clean/was appropriate for the circumstances, etc., I added something new.
That's a lot of blue. Who knew? If you had asked me what colors I like to wear, I don't think I would have thought about blue, except for denim. I'm a "pink" girl. There's no pink here at all.
3 items (Gap straight leg jeans, navy linen blouse, blue and white tunic) were chosen without thought given to the challenge. Although I like all of these, I would likely have chosen to add items that were more versatile for work/casual instead.
Every top works with every bottom. 12 stand-alone tops x 7 bottoms could be 84 outfits. Add in layering tanks, belts and shoes to change things up, and the number's pretty ridiculous.
Now that I have a tested capsule, my husband needs to take me to Europe for a loooooong vacation.
Hat's off to those of you who are doing this while wearing office-appropriate clothes 5 days/week. I'm not sure I could manage that.
Here's the list:
- 3 linen/cotton sweaters
- 4 linen/cotton tunics
- 4 linen/cotton shirts
- 1 tee
- 3 layering tanks
- 7 jeans (dark skinnies, bootcut jeggings, dark BF, gray skimmers, med wash straight leg, white cropped, med wash cropped)
- 4 shoes (3 sandals, 1 slip on sneaker)
- 3 belts (which I'm still not counting)
Great challenge, Laura! Thanks so much for starting it and keeping it going.

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9 years ago

Anonymous

You know what I find so interesting is how limiting our color palette makes this challenge work. My dominant colors have been black, grey, and white. Everything works together. Some people might find such limited colors as stifling, but I actually love wearing black/white combinations. I always have.

9 years ago

Laura (rhubarbgirl)

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Love seeing the pic of everything, carter. I agree, if I had to dress business casual for the office every day I'd be screwed. Or just wear the exact same two outfits over and over every weekend.

Day 23: blue colorblock sweater, denim skirt, gray Vans. No new items.

9 years ago

carter

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Added some dressier work clothes today. I am calling the blouse aqua, but with today's round-up, I think it may really be a mid-tone mint:-). I wanted to add something slightly different in color from what's already here, but obviously it's important that it play nicely with the rest. Also, had we not been doing this challenge, I probably would have chosen my bright pink ankle pants today (with a diff top obviously), but I went with black ankle pants for mixability and incognito repeat wearings. I had on a pair of loafers today intending to add them, but they were still too tight on my surgery foot to handle several hours of afternoon showings.

April 21 (day 23): black BR ankle pants, aqua sleeveless blouse, black AKS sandals

My goodness, I am long-winded today.

9 years ago

Sal

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Day 24: Black Moochi tee, coated jeans, red leather jacket, camel ankle boots. No new items.

Not feeling the love for this outfit at all so may change the jeans or the jacket later on......but it will do me for working at home/checking ylf for the next couple of hours

Yes I would have chosen different jeans today but wanted to give myself space to add the other two items over the next six days.

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