Tuesday 18 January 2011

Blast from the past

It was a lovely surprise to receive a comment from The Small Fabric of My Life as she has been dutifully pursuing her retraining as a teacher. You see it is not just me who goes for something different!

Anyway Jane reminded me of my favourite event the Capsule Wardrobe Challenge. For those of you uninitiated in this annual event the challenge is to choose ten items of clothing from your wardrobe and mix and match them for five days between Monday February 14th and Friday February 18th. You can have any combination of shoes, dresses, skirts, tops and jackets as long as it adds up to ten individual items. You are also allowed five accessories which include jewellery, scarves, bag, belts etc. Underwear and hosiery do not come under the ten items and five accessories!

If you are up for it then please blog about it and if you want to appear in The Small Fabric of My Life's Capsule Wardrobe Challenge round-up the following week then please email your pics to workthatwardrobe@googlemail.com.

Go on...

Here are a couple of pics from bygone years. I give you October 2009




Old Wallis strapless dress, Gap stripy long sleeve tee (I have just killed it by wearing it nonstop for 4 years), LK Bennett belt and I also had an H&M black jacket. I wore the same shoes (old boots) all week.



Gap grey cashmere t-shirt, H&M white shirt, H&M sequin leggings, Topshop jade green coin necklace, Accessorise scarf, Toast bag and very old ankle boots.

13 comments:

  1. Good luck with the Challenge and I look forward to seeing your outfits x

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  2. Dear Kate, I wish I was better at things like this. I love the strapless dress with the striped top underneath.

    We must speak this week, hope you're good xx

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  3. Hi my dear-I will look forward to seeing your different choices on the challenge, you seem to perfect this so well, good luck!! xx

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  4. Cool idea. It will be good to see how it all comes together during that week. Xxxx

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  5. I'm always v. impressed with people who manage to do this. I am absolutely pants at being organised enough in the first place to pull the right pieces together!

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  6. I always like reading these challenges, great fun! BTW Kate I did it finally - set up my little blog shop hopefully I can use the proceeds to work on my 'the top secret project' which I am feeling excited about, thanks again for the pep talk xx

    http://shoppearlswardrobe.blogspot.com/

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  7. This sounds really interesting, I need to revitalise my existing wardrobe so check out everyone's challenge attempts. I'm too scare to try myself as I think I would be rubbish at it!

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  8. I'd love to do this but i'm rubbish at putting together a capsule wardrobe....I might give it a think though!

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  9. I could never do this but I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. xxx

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  10. oooohhh i want to play! Count me in!

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  11. I'm totally going to do this challenge...

    Ha ha! You know I'm not.

    I'm sure you'll look great!

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  12. YES!! I do want to be a part of it! What an awesome idea,I bet blogs will be full of it very soon :)

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  13. A challenge for me would be to wear something beyond the ten items I always wear...

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