Hello and welcome back to my channel. This
is quite a highly requested video and it is
a closet tour so I thought I would do that
today. But before we get into the video, just
a really quick reminder that, at the end of
this month, so in three/four days time, I'm
going to be choosing a winner of the Laura
Ashley coat so if you want to be in with a
chance of owning that coat then you need to
go and watch my apartment tour video. I'll
put a link in the description and also up
here in a card. So, while I was filming this
closet tour, I decided that over the next
few videos I'm going to do a few on clothing
and capsule wardrobes and decluttering your
clothes and what to buy, how to make sure
you're buying the right things and this sort
of thing because, even though, considering
the breadth and how deep minimalism can actually
go, I think it could appear that clothing
is quite superficial but it isn't. And the
reason for this is, one of the things that
causes us to be such big consumers is, of
course, advertisements - I've talked about
this quite a lot - and one of the things that
we are taught that defines us is clothes.
I think it's probably at the forefront of
it all. So y'know you're taught that your
personality and your style are somehow related
or that your value as a human being and the
brands you buy are linked in some way and
it's absolute nonsense. It means nothing.
It's just what you wear. But also we want
to create a good impression because the rest
of the world has decided for us what a good
impression looks like so it is important to
look as if you care but without it involving
too much effort and that, to me, is what a
capsule wardrobe is.
So in the rest of the video I'm going to be
talking about all of these items behind me.
It is every single item of clothing that I
own apart from my shoes, which I'll talk about
in another video, and apart from what I'm
actually wearing which, for the purposes of
the video, I just pretended that I didn't
own and I also own two coats. But other than
that, that's everything behind me. And this
video is just a general closet tour video
so I keep everything out on a rail and one
of the reasons for this is just because I
keep everything neater that way. I had a really
bad habit of, if ever there was a cupboard
or a drawer or anything where it was hidden
away, it would just be a mess and I'd be cramming
things in and I wasn't very good at keeping
things tidy when concealed. However, when
the responsibility is on me to keep things
looking nice like this, when it's all out
in the open, then I actually do it; I actually
put my clothes away because I have to see
it all the time.
So I don't think numbers are important in
minimalism at all. It's about what your minimalism
looks like and how the items that you own
serve you. It looks different for everyone
so what I'm saying here, I'm not talking about
rules or what your wardrobe should look like
at all, I just think it can be helpful to
see how other people have designed theirs
if you're thinking of designing your own.
And this is just an arbitrary number but I
do have 35 items and the key, I find, when
designing a capsule wardrobe or trying to
turn your existing wardrobe into a capsule
wardrobe which is essentially what I did here,
is making sure that things are multi-purpose
so deciding where you spend most of your life
or what areas of your life you spend the most
time in. So for me, it's work, it's lounging
around the house... They're probably the two
main ones but y'know I do go out: I'll pop
to the shops, I'll go on a night out and I'll
go to a bar with my friends, every now and
again. So that, for me, isn't as big as a
focus and that's reflected in my wardrobe,
definitely. But what I've done is I've gone
through my wardrobe and I've thought about
how many areas of my life each one of these
items can fit into with the idea being that
I want to have as many items suitable for
multiple areas of my life as possible. And,
as I said earlier, I'm going to go into more
detail in later videos but this is just a
surface tour. So I hope you enjoy the video
and please don't forget to subscribe and like
this video if you do like it and we'll go
into the main closet tour.
So my wardrobe is generally blacks, whites,
greys and neutral colours and I tend to arrange
them from dark to light; this is just 'cause
it makes it easier to find things. And I only
own as many shoes as I need to make outfits
suitable for different occasions and not any
more, really. So my full wardrobe is 35 items
and these are items I can pair with other
things to make them suitable for all occasions
for example, for work, I generally wear 16
out of the 35 items that I own and I go through
these within a week or a fortnight. If I want
to make something a bit more casual, I'll
wear a lot of the same items but with more
casual shoes and there's a bit more denim
involved in casual daywear. And then on a
night out I'll generally choose between these
ten items depending on how formal the night
is, and if it's something a little more laid
back - more like a bar or a restaurant - then
I will choose between these 22 things. Then
my loungewear and pyjamas, there's 12 items
that I have and these are all things that
I can wear for other things as well if I also
with. Just like t-shirts for casual wear.
Then I own 5 things that I wear for the gym
and I don't really need to own any more because
I tend to just wash them after I wear them
and they dry really quickly. And if there's
a rare summer's day in England then I will
choose from this little 9-piece set and if
there's a cold day then generally it's all
about layers but I have 13 items that are
really quite warm that I tend to layer up.
So that was just a brief overview of my wardrobe
and I hope you enjoyed it. But I think the
take away point is that a minimalist wardrobe
is going to look different for everyone. And
minimalism looks different for everyone. So
your wardrobe could be 3 items or it could
be 300 items; but the thing that makes it
a minimalist wardrobe is the intentionality
and being mindful in the things that you own,
the things that you share your space with
and the things that you invite into your space
as well. I find the amount of clothes I have
a really good amount because it means that
I can do my laundry - I just do it once a
week on a Sunday and then I'm good to go for
the next week, whereas I think you can have
so few things that you have to do your laundry
very, very regularly and that wouldn't suit
my lifestyle that well, I think, and by "lifestyle",
I mean the fact that I'm a bit lazy. But I
hope you enjoyed that video and please don't
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you in my next video. I'll see you later,
hope you're having a lovely week, good bye!
