How to Create More Outfits With the Clothes You Already Own
If You Can Only Think of One or Two Ways to Wear Something New, This May Be Why
You buy a new top and can immediately picture the jeans you'll wear with it.
Maybe there's another pair of pants in your closet that works too.
And then...that's about it.
The top isn't necessarily a bad purchase. You like it. You'll wear it. But instead of giving you several new outfit possibilities, it gives you one or two.
And when you want to wear it differently, you start thinking about what else you could buy to go with it.
That's how a closet can keep getting fuller without your wardrobe becoming any easier to wear.
The Problem Isn't Always What You Just Bought
It's easy to assume you made the wrong purchase.
But sometimes the problem isn't the new top, pants, skirt, or dress. It's what you have—or don't have—to wear with it.
If most of your tops only work with one or two bottoms, your shoes only work with certain outfits, or you're missing layers that could completely change a look, your wardrobe doesn't have enough pieces connecting everything.
So every time you buy something new, you're almost starting from scratch.
You have to figure out what goes with it, whether you have the right shoes and what you can layer over it. And if you don't have those pieces, you're back to shopping again.
This Is Where Your Wardrobe Basics Do the Work
The value of wardrobe basics isn't simply that they're versatile.
It's that they make more of your wardrobe versatile.
A denim shirt doesn't have to belong to one outfit. It can work with jeans, trousers, skirts or layered over a dress.
A simple sweater can work with several bottoms and underneath different jackets.
The right pair of everyday shoes can finish outfits with jeans, trousers, skirts and dresses.
These pieces give you something to reach for when you want to wear the rest of your clothes differently.
And when you have enough of them, adding something new becomes much easier because you're not trying to build an entire outfit around every purchase.
One New Piece Can Give You Several New Outfits
Think about the difference.
You buy a pair of pants and have one top that works with them. That's essentially one new outfit.
But if you already own several tops, a button-up, a sweater, a jacket, and a few pairs of shoes that work with those pants, you've added one piece to your closet and potentially created several new outfits.
That's what you want your wardrobe to do.
You don't necessarily need more clothes. You need enough of the right clothes that the pieces you buy have something to work with.
How Wardrobe Basics Create More Outfits
The Classic Wardrobe Basics eBook isn't about giving you another checklist of clothes you're supposed to own.
It shows you the clothes, shoes, and accessories that can help make the rest of your wardrobe easier to wear.
And with more than 200 outfit ideas, you can see how these pieces work across different outfits, how they can help you wear the clothes you already own differently, and why having the right basics can give you far more options than simply continuing to add individual pieces.
Because the goal isn't to buy a new top and find one pair of jeans to wear with it.
It's to have a wardrobe that gives you several ways to wear it before you ever need to buy something else.