December 18, 2024
Sometimes, you see something that just makes you happy. If you keep thinking about that thing… six hours later?… you might want to listen to your heart!
That’s my feeling about this scarf; the minute I saw this, I knew I wanted to share it with you all here:
scarf – Artifact.
What an interesting image – dill? Some sparse hydrangeas? And artichokes? What do you think?
Of course, these colors are difficult to find…
Our heroine knows that she’s going to struggle to find the soft accent colors – the green and purple are QUITE elusive. But she also knows that she can wear this scarf with her neutral grey, or she could look for a different green like soft olive. Or use beige as her neutral. There are always possibilities!
She assembles three outfits, and then adds a few more garments – a pretty effective way to pack:
Cardigan – J.Crew; earrings – Saule Label; scarf – Artifact.; pants – L.L.Bean; lake blue tee – L.L.Bean; charcoal boots – Taos Footwear
Dressy-ish. The usefulness of a chambray shirt is hard to describe!
Grey sweater – J.Crew; flower earrings – Bling Jewelry; chambray shirt – L.L.Bean; crossbody bag – Vera Bradley; French terry skirt – Mango; scarf – Artifact.; pumps – Trotters
Jeans can be luxurious with a cashmere sweatshirt! The best of both worlds…
blue cashmere hoodie – Nordstrom; opal earrings – Celebration Gems; ivory turtleneck – Lands’ End; jeans – Lands’ End; bracelet – Ethicgoods; sneakers – Puma
After searching high and low, she found a tee shirt that’s a good mate for her scarf, and a cardigan too! A nice neutral tee shirt, another scarf (although you CAN wear the same scarf every day – there are no rules about these things!), and some pretty earrings:
Mulberry tee – Orvis; green earrings – Lauren Ralph Lauren; green cardigan – And Other Stories; gray tee – Lands’ End; scarf – Elizabetta
It’s a pretty complete travel capsule wardrobe – which surprises her, given how hard she had to look for just the right things to include!
Of course she has outfits – that’s how she chosen her garments! But she likes to make certain that she can assemble things differently, if she’s so inclined…
Any time you can use denim in your travel capsule wardrobe, things are automatically easier. It’s like packing magic…
love,
Janice
p.s. Ten years ago, we shared one of my favorite, REALLY elegant long weekend wardrobes in camel and burgundy; it’s ten years old, but I would still wear it in a New York minute!
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Not my usual colours but I so love this scarf – you’ve really nailed the capsule to wear with it ! The mulberry T-shirt is perfect 😍
I love everything about this one! The colors and styles. The scarf is fantastic.
This capsule is so cozy and relaxing! I would wear the heck out of this!
Even if the colors in the scarf are hard to find, you’ve adapted what’s available perfectly. The scarf won’t got out of style or stop fitting if she loses or gains eight. And color trends come and go.
I love all the styles you’ve found.
What a soft and lovely palette! I’m attracted to the art of this pretty scarf, especially the artichokes. How architectural and what amazing lines!
I do tend to be a bit of a magpie in my own color choices—I like bright colors and shiny things. But, this is a lovely compilation of a quiet and gentle overview for casual living.
Not my colors but I absolutely love it. My kind of casual dressing. The colors are beautiful. I can only image how challenging they were to find.
This is a lovely combination. If I could wear these colors, I would attempt to buy every single piece! It gives me some wonderful ideas for my warmer color palette, for example, the idea of adding a grey top of some sort with the apricot/rust, olive and golden khaki I usually wear. Thank you for the idea.
Love the colours, love the clothes …
This is beautiful, so wearable and the colours are singing my song. I’ve never owned cashmere but would love to try it.
Look for a used sweater – ThredUp, Ebay, and Eileen Fisher all have tons of older sweaters. They’re possibly going to be a nicer grade of cashmere than the newer sweaters that are relatively inexpensive, but thin as cheesecloth!
hugs,
Janice
Swoon.
This makes my heart sing!
Hope your days in Paris are full of fun and adventure and those ouchy ribs aren’t giving you any trouble.
Ooooh … I could wear this wardrobe forever.
beautiful soft colors and so harmonious. I love it.
Delectable. I can wear these colours a lot of the time – my ‘go too’ colours on days when I don’t want to have to try too hard but, blended well, still make a statement. I always feel ‘put together’ in these colours. Stressless dressing.
Very helpful as I am packing. For a visit with hiking, cooking, very sorry normal visit plus 3 celebration dinners. The skirt looks s going to get a lot of work.
I can attest to the usefulness of the cashmere hoodie. I have one in a cream cable knit and I’ve worn the heck out of it for years! It’s a great accent piece beyond just a basic pullover sweater, and is also wonderful to layer under and over other things when it gets really cold.
I’ve yet to see an Artifact scarf I don’t love, but this one may be my favorite!
As we all play along with the year-long Six Scarves wardrobe building posts I will be using this scarf as my personal inspiration. Never been more excited to create a new wardrobe from scratch and this is the year to do it. My hair is now fully gone to a silvery gray, I’ve dropped 15 pounds, and I’m embracing a more casual, comfortable style of work-from-home dressing. Looking forward to adding new pieces each month to create my “just right wardrobe.” This is going to be fun!
Oh, wow, this is pretty much how I want to get my capsule wardrobe looking, with those same colours, but I’ve been struggling with it.
I wonder if it’s because I have both accent colours (green and purple) in light pastels, like mint / sage / lilac, and they never seem to “go well” together, and should I have one as a pastel shade and the other as a jewel – or should I not be wearing them together, anyway? Eg you wouldn’t wear the dark purple top with the sage green cardigan shown in the Extras example?
I also have a lot of black items in with my colours, and often end up with black boots, black trousers and black coat (a Banana Republic wool one that fits perfectly – a rare thing for me! – and finishes off any outfit in a classy, stylish way). Some of my jumpers / sweaters / cardigans / accessories are in my accent colours, but obviously when I have the coat on I feel like I’m all in black or charcoal grey.
Anyway, I’ve saved this post for future reference and can see myself wearing all the styles as I have about 80% of this in my wardrobe already – switching out the skirt for a light-coloured pair of trousers as I don’t do skirts, for all the reasons.
Thank you for this post, I’m probably closer to my end goal than I initially thought!
Maybe everything in your wardrobe doesn’t have to go together? It’s tempting to try to get every garment to be wearable with every other one, but that’s not always realistic, nor is it always pretty.
I think you probably in a much better position that you realize. Most of us usually are!
hugs,
Janice
Thank you, Janice,
It is tempting to go for a “getting dressed in the dark” wardrobe where everything goes with everything else, but you’re right, it’s not always going to be possible!
I’m wearing Remix #4 today (first time wearing double denim!), but added in my favourite singer t-shirt under the denim shirt, as it’s three years today since he died.
Looking forward to trying the other outfit examples when I’m in the office this week. I’ve probably worn some iteration of them previously, but it’s good to know I’m on the right track! :)