Essentials?

Sara L.

I can get the essentials for bottoms and shoes. Those would be:

Black pants (full length and cropped)
casual winter - skinny jeans (blue and black)
casual summer - shorts (blue and white denim)
black boots (I have these in different heel and shaft heights)
black sandals (for summer instead of boots)

However, I can't figure this out for tops. I feel like either all my tops are essentials or they're all statements. I usually wear a scarf or statement necklace with my tops. If those are statements, does that mean all my tops are essentials? That doesn't seem right. Any insights would be helpful.

7 years ago

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Latest reply was from Isabel

Joy

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You seem to wear a wide variety of tops. I would think that they might be statements. You add color and pattern with tops and scarves. Do you prefer a certain style or sleeve length or neckline?

7 years ago

Ginger

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I didn't put tops in my essentials list, either. Like Joy said, they really are statements for me. You may have an essential or two if they're necessary to wear some statement bottoms, jacket, or scarf.

7 years ago

Barbara Diane

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I don't think I put any tops on my essentials list. I might have added my plain black and navy tops, but most of my tops are statements. They are prints, and what one notices. My jewelry and scarves are often statements also. For spring/summer I have two pairs of print crops, which I consider statements. I wouldn't wear my statement crops with my statement tops.

7 years ago

rachylou

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I think of your jewellery as signature to you, and so I tend to feel that's where you make your statements. I'm not sure where that leaves your tops. They're not UNinteresting, and certainly you should wear a top when you go out (!)... that's why I think it may be that not every thing is either or - or not every essential is something that fades into the background...

7 years ago

Sara L.

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I do have a few statement bottoms that I wear black tops with. So I think a thin black sweater and a black fluid button down top can go on the essentials list also. If I add coats to the list I have a black wool coat for winter and a long black cardigan that I wear in the spring and summer. I know that not everything on the essentials list needs to be a neutral color but mine is predominately black so far.

7 years ago

Isabel

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I think that if there are no specific tops that you feel you have to have then you have no tops that are "essentials". I look at it this way for myself, if I lost ALL my clothes in a fire, what would be the first things that I would buy ? For me : jeans , t shirts, blazer, scarf, cardigan, a pair of stud earrings and MAC lipstick in twig.Oh black boots, bootties or sandals. Boom. I can handle anything for my lifestyle.

I would imagine for someone who works outside the home, it would help to have a "work" essentials and a non work essentials list.

7 years ago

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