{"id":17160,"date":"2019-10-11T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2023-05-20T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T16:58:22","slug":"capsule-wardrobe-tips-and-ideas-for-autumn-winter-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennygolightly.com\/capsule-wardrobe-tips-and-ideas-for-autumn-winter-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Capsule wardrobe tips and ideas for Autumn Winter 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The nights are drawing in, and it’s time to put together a brand new capsule wardrobe for Autumn and Winter 2019<\/strong>. Hurrah! This is one of my favourite parts of the year where I get to take my jumpers and warmest boots out of storage and do some mixing and matching, and maybe treat myself to a few new bits and bobs. It’s worth thinking it through: a well curated capsule collection is relatively small but it works hard for you, allowing you to create many different looks and outfits while potentially reducing your carbon footprint and also saving you money. What’s not to love?<\/p>\n

If you’re putting your own capsule wardrobe together for the first time this season, you might also like to read my five basic rules for beginners<\/strong><\/a> for some foolproof ways to ensure success.<\/p>\n

Themes, colours and influences<\/h1>\n

My latest 20-item capsule wardrobe for AW2019 has some great basic pieces, plus a few nods to catwalk influences such as 90s grunge, heritage checks, the animal print trend and dark florals. As always I find it easiest to go for a general theme, which this time is ‘smart-ish casual with a bit of retro’, to keep roughly the same tone throughout and make mixing and matching much easier. The dark neutral base colours are black, mid-wash denim and chocolate brown<\/strong>, and the light and medium neutrals are white, ivory and beige\/camel<\/strong>. My three pops of colour are purple, burgundy and burnt orange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As always, many of my clothes are old favourites, or they’re second hand, upcycled or vintage. However, I’m aware that this isn’t very helpful if you’re trying to put something together yourself, so I’ve picked similar high street items that you can easily get hold<\/strong> of in case you want to replicate some or all of the looks.<\/p>\n

Capsule wardrobe AW2019 tops<\/h1>\n

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Here are the five tops, with plenty of different shapes, textures and shades to create variety and interest. There’s one light colour, two colour pops (burnt orange and purple), a printed shirt and a dark base colour. Normally I’d have two light shades and one less colour pop but many of the recent trends are for darker clothes so I’ve made an exception from my usual rules, just this once. The most important rule is that each of the five tops needs to go with each of the five bottoms, which they all do.<\/p>\n