Pack perfect for your next adventure
Every time you pack, you are forced to create a capsule wardrobe. The charm of a minimalist travel capsule wardrobe is that you get a lot of outfit options from just a few amounts of clothes.
In other words; good news if you do not want to push around a heavy bag. You want to travel lights, so let’s create a capsule wardrobe that’s perfect for your next exciting trip.
Consider your specific needs
No trip is alike, so when you pack, you have to take into consideration the climate and the activities. Nevertheless, my 5 examples are excellent starting points for learning how to create your own minimalist travel capsule wardrobe.
Follow my method and you will arrive in the golden land of a small bag filled with casual yet chic outfits.
4 basic steps
- Decide on a color palette. This help make your minimalistic travel capsule wardrobe cohesive.
- Decide how many items of clothes you want to pack.
- Decide on which specific items you want to bring. How many tops, jackets and bottoms? Generally speaking, 60 percent tops and 40 percent bottoms works best. Here you can decide if you want to bring a shirt? Two jackets? Two sweaters? Are you bringing a dress?
- Lay out your chosen clothes and make sure you can create enough outfits for your different needs. Ask yourself what you can wear for traveling, for exploring, for having dinner, etc.
Think in sets
Here is another trick to get you going. As you pull out a sweater or pair of pants, ask yourself what top or bottom you want to combine it with. This way you think in sets. (And you don’t get any orphaned clothes.)
When you have a set you can ask yourself if you need to add a jacket.
As you have 4 or 5 sets, you can start mixing and matching and see how well your chosen clothes work together.
Capsule wardrobe 1; white, navy, and denim
In each of these capsule wardrobes, I picked ten items of clothing.
If you need a bigger capsule wardrobe, just keep on bringing pieces following the same principles.
In this first capsule wardrobe, I followed my 60 percent tops, and 40 percent bottoms. (I didn’t include a dress.)
If you want to extend this packing, you could just bring two extra tops and it would still be a good amount of bottoms.
Temperatures
This capsule wardrobe works in a relatively warm (but not hot) climate. If you are traveling and expecting cold, I would add another sweater and a warmer jacket.
Otherwise, I think this example illustrates a pretty perfect capsule wardrobe formula to follow.
Let’s take a look at a few of the outfits you can create when you pack these clothes.
Capsule wardrobe 2; Camel and grey
For this capsule wardrobe, I choose only two colors, so you can see how things change with an even more minimalistic color palette.
When you choose more unusual colors such as grey and camel, you cannot expect the shades to be the same. Just test the actual clothes, different shades of grey absolutely can work in the same outfit, the same goes for camel.
Unexpected colors
There is a reason black and white is so popular when it comes to creating a minimalist travel capsule wardrobe; those colors are always the same shade. But grey and camel are elegant and more unexpected.
My first capsule wardrobe was very casual, so with this one, I wanted to create a more dressed-up feeling.
I achieved this by adding a camel blazer and a silk blouse. I also added both a dress and a skirt. When you have dinner reservations, this wardrobe gives you lots of options.
If you are traveling in a colder climate, bring warm stockings to wear with the skirt and dress. You also do not need to pack such a short skirt
