https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:46:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965930 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:57:41 +0000 unfrumped 965930@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting replies! Thanks for chiming in, Angie.&nbsp; Thank you, Glory and Suz.<br />The return to capsule thinking is actually combined with NOT requiring as much versatility--also love Angie's post on that--meaning, improving the happiness factor of things by&nbsp;a smaller, fabber &nbsp;capsule at a time rather than having everything go with everything, but not so well.<br />goldenpig, you'll have to show pics! rachylou, I know--it may be more of a fantasy. Or, set sights on smaller goal, as per rute. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965754 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:00:34 +0000 rachylou 965754@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The thought is really super appealing to me. But not being a professional stylist, I cannot imagine sorting out the logistics. Going all over the place to look, then going back out all over the place to buy, then doing it again to return. I fantasize about finding it all in one store... which could be done, but would probably introduce a kind of uniformity I'm not keen on in my style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965752 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:55:23 +0000 goldenpig 965752@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Funny you mention this, I just did the buy a whole capsule thing yesterday at Tommy Bahama! I bought a bunch of pieces in coral and turquoise. It will be perfect for summer and travel. Pre YLF I used to buy whole matching outfits from Ann Taylor (shirt with matching skirt). Then I tried to move away from that and started trying to buy separate pieces, but then I found White House Black Market and went nuts buying an ink blue, black and white capsule a couple years ago. It's great because everything coordinates. Plus, when you have little time to shop as Angie mentioned, it's nice to be able to buy a whole functional capsule at once, if you can. I buy the kids' clothes this way from Tea--a whole mix and match wardrobe set a couple of times per year. Then they can pick clothes themselves and everything matches. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965678 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:34:23 +0000 Angie 965678@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>FWIW, I often shop to fill and create many mix and match capsules at once with clients who have NO time to shop. So we need to get it all done on the one day. In their case, time is the currency - not money. So that's another way of looking at it. </p> <p>And I echo what Rute and Claire said. </p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965660 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:18:33 +0000 Liz A. 965660@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know that since joining YLF, I've actually done quite an overhaul on my wardrobe, and I guess I've gotten almost an entire new work capsule (at least for S/S).&nbsp; Work is my dominant season LOL.&nbsp; I'd like to do more revamping on casual, but it's just not as necessary.</p> <p>Anyways, I didn't spend a ton of money, but I did spend more than I should have.&nbsp; It was definitely worth it though, bc now I feel much more at ease when I look to my closet for what to wear on a daily basis.&nbsp; I'm not tugging at my too short skirts.&nbsp; There are many fewer days when I get to work and realize my proportions are all wrong.</p> <p>I'm a person who loves culling items that aren't working, so that part of the process was ueber rewarding for me as well.&nbsp; I didn't add all the pieces at once, but I definitely shopped more purposely with an eye for the whole capsule in mind.&nbsp; The problem when you're trying to work around your existing wardrobe is that you shop with coordinating in mind.&nbsp; Then you end up with the same old coordinating items that you still don't love.</p> <p>It sounds like you have the resources.&nbsp; I say go for it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965627 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:43:35 +0000 Anonymous 965627@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've thought of this often too. I think if everything were bought at once, there would be no problem with everything "going together" in respect to colors and dye lots as well as the certain look of the season.&nbsp;</p> <p>The closest I've come to this is with thrifting, because then it's possible to buy a lot of items in a small time frame and not break the bank. I have a capsule wardrobe, but in my case I end up buying two or three times what I need and then over a period of weeks determining what I love and what was a miss. I can only seem to figure this out by actually wearing the items, so the misses get sold or donated.&nbsp;</p> <p>I agree that colors are easy, but proportions have me stumped. Theoretically, my jackets go with all my bottoms, but my shorter safari jacket looks better with skirts and my long tuxedo blazer looks better with jeans to my eye, and there are certain outfit combinations that I prefer over others. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965622 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:36:42 +0000 Suz 965622@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think it sounds super fun! I agree with Rute, due to expense, it would probably be better to begin with a mini-capsule, unless one had unlimited resources, of course.&nbsp;</p> <p>Still, I often think that in the long run, buying in capsules&nbsp;would be money well spent. Many of us actually need wardrobe <b>OVERHAULS</b> rather than updates! (Well, speaking for myself there). How I wish I'd been in a financial position to do this immediately following m weight loss. After all, I genuinely needed...well...everything!&nbsp;&nbsp;It probably would have given me a better foundation to work from had I bought in capsules, making updates an actual possibility. Sadly, I didn't have the resources at the time. So now I find myself in your position.&nbsp;</p> <p>Proportions are the trickiest part. Colours I can manage, but proportions are much harder to get when you go bit by bit.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965621 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:35:47 +0000 Glory 965621@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really like the idea of this. If you could get excellent items and then make the final decision at home - perfect. You would have a lovely wardrobe and more free time! I would need help with it as I have no faith in my decision making skills on what looks good but if Angie were with me - woot woot.<br />I do have to say I rarely buy more than 2 items at once because it gives me heart palpitations on the spend. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965615 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:23:29 +0000 unfrumped 965615@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, Rute, that's a good approach--Angie also had a post on a kind of mini-capsule because it's more do-able.</p> <p>It's never been that easy for me to find a lot of items in one store department at any one time, but it seems even harder now. One item will be classic and the companion pieces will be casual or blingy or avant-garde. So "collecting" would still require combining items from many venues. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965612 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:17:40 +0000 rute 965612@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I often think a lot about this. I used to have that problem, a lot of pieces and none work well together.<br />To buy an entire capsule can be expensive, what I do is to buy lets say a small capsule: 1 bottom, 2 tops, 1 jacket,&nbsp;1 scarf, shoes making sure that all goes together. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/finding-an-entire-capsule-at-once#post-965611 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:13:41 +0000 unfrumped 965611@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>&nbsp;I love Angie’s articles on work wear wardrobe capsules—the ones from spring 2012 are still faves. Then came the post on shopping with clients and taking photos and putting items aside as “maybe’s” while still shopping.</p> <p>&nbsp;I aim for several overlapping workwear capsules, &nbsp;but since I have an existing wardrobe, I tend to add one thing at a time, and usually order&nbsp;one on-line thing here or there. Sometimes feel I’m in a rut that adding the one piece didn’t help even if it "goes" with a lot of things. Or seeing one item in isolation, out of context, I may miss its usefulness. &nbsp;I&nbsp;may have &nbsp;&nbsp;a &nbsp;new, more fab future capsule in my mind, but then I sometimes find I’m not getting the whole thing accomplished. &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;I’m wondering if I should gear my shopping more toward&nbsp;acquiring an entire “capsule” (the outfit capsule with a couple of bottoms, tops, shoes, jacket) at once when possible –or if that’s even possible--and less adding one thing here and there. &nbsp;I think my interest arises from the fact that I don’t trust&nbsp;the universality of items anymore, due to proportions &amp; length.</p> <p>&nbsp;Obviously this is part of what Angie does all the time with clients&nbsp;as part of &nbsp;working in intense time blocks, but I haven’t really thought of it as a one-person strategy. </p> <p>The compressed time sequence &nbsp;&nbsp;would include the idea that you might&nbsp; bring home,&nbsp;&amp; &nbsp;order, &nbsp;several items to “hold” until you decided which &nbsp;make the best capsule, but you don’t want to delay returns too long. &nbsp;All of the items under consideration should be really good, but at the end of the day item A&nbsp; might prove more versatile than B due to color or pattern or something, and you might not know that until you’d got some other items in front of you to coordinate. </p> <p>There's no need to think of this as better than or in place of another strategy,or&nbsp;a magic&nbsp;gimmick; just wondering. </p>