I thrifted the sloth pajamas and was excited not to have to buy anything more for this stage. (Can you tell we are a John Deere family? My uncles farm with them/sell them.)Įverything goes together (more or less), and almost all of this was inherited from our daughter. Plus 2 pairs of pants and 2 vintage John Deere t-shirts as backup at daycare, including this gem (with some soup on it, pre-laundry): Without further ado, the Toddler Capsule Wardrobe for Summer 2020:Ī bunch of socks (including my favorite pink ones with the pink John Deere t-shirt and the purple socks with the tie-dye shirt)ġ pink John Deere ball cap for sun protection If you do laundry less frequently, you can adjust accordingly. Today I’m sharing our toddler’s “capsule” wardrobe from this past summer to give an idea of just how little your kid(s) might be able to get by with.įor reference, my kid gets dirty pretty regularly and we wash clothes almost daily, thanks to cloth diapers and laundry for four people. (The same is true for adults’ clothes, too – and dishes, and sheets, and and and…you’d think more is better but it just creates more inventory to manage, as The Minimal Mom says.) The conventional wisdom is that kids need lots of clothes, but I’ve found the opposite is true – we find keeping kids’ clothes to a minimum simplifies laundry, keeping track of clothes, etc. In addition to telling me that my pants forgot to go down all the way (thank you, Sister), my sister commented that the “watermelon” look on the right was overwhelming – fun, yes, but still overwhelming: Otherwise, the only colorful pants I have right now are green, and I deploy them judiciously. I’m going to tuck them into storage until spring and see if they improve with a change in the seasons. For example, I have a pair of lemon yellow jeans in my drawer right now that I have yet to wear because they just seem to oversaturate every outfit. It’s true, though – I’ve tried for years to thrift just the right pink yellow, or purple pants, and even when I’ve hit the hue right on the head, they never really work in my wardrobe. So basically I’ve discovered I shouldn’t buy colorful pants, ha. Outfits where color is mixed in with a big dash of “neutral” from my color palette (faded wine, chambray/denim, white, taupe) tend to be less of a gamble: Too “old-fashioned gender binary baby shower”:Įye-blinding – to me it works but in a magical unicorn one-off kind of way: I’ve also realized that some outfits with a lot of color seem to work, where others read as cotton candy. This taupe looks weird on my monitor, but who would not be excited about that koala? I also dig a real Light Summer gray – one that’s light and cool enough to elevate a whole outfit but not so cold it looks stark. Two particular favorites are a mauve I’ve seen referred to as “faded wine” (ha) and lovely shades of taupe. Someone further ahead on the PCA journey than I am cautioned me that neutrals would actually help ground the gorgeous colors in my new palette, and while I knew Kim’s advice was right on, as a color-lover, it felt so much more fun to hunt for my new colors than it did to look for neutrals.īut as I’ve kept working on my Light Summer wardrobe, I’ve settled down on the color factor a bit and started to really appreciate my neutrals. (Man I wish I had a picture of that dress to share with you.) After all, I used to regularly dress in electric blue snakeprint blouses and dresses covered in purple tulips with red, green, and yellow accents. And as a “Light Summer” in the world of personal color analysis (PCA), there are plenty of gorgeous colors to choose from:Īfter a detour down the rabbit hole of Instagram-inspired neutrals and with my PCA color palette in hand, I was excited to start wearing color again.
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