Each season I tend to struggle about what to post when it comes to fashion. As an owner of a wardrobe so vast it’ll fill a two bedroom apartment easily sectioned by type, colour, season, category that will last decades, I need for nothing, I want for nothing even more in my wardrobe, therefore I never know if it’s a disservice when I tell you to buy something I’ve recently acquired yet not needed or when I’m regurgitating the latest fashion week cycle that’ll seem to mean you must go out and buy something or all the things new which I thankfully have stopped. I often forget fashion week is still a thing these days… what is the point? It seems counter to everything and a cosign on over consumerism which is a problem.
The base; jeans, always start with the bottoms and without a shadow of a doubt, the best jeans ever are the boyfriend jeans from M&S; I have about six pairs of them from ankle grazer to full length to cropped… they simply fit.
Fashion is such a cynical thing and sometimes it has the ability to make us, most of us, always feel like outsiders because we don’t use the right terms, know the right era, or are able to tell our blues apart from cerulean to petrol. What even is royal blue? It is one thing to know what pleats but another thing to know the proper term for the proper pleats. I say this all to say a wardrobe is an extension of who you are and each season we cycle through them.
The top; cardigans, I am a girl meant to wear a cardigan, I wore them as a kid and I will wear them till my dying day they are such versatile pieces in the wardrobe and I don’t mean the twinsets of yesteryear but I am talking grandpa cardigan type style. Maybe a little nipped in at the waist a la River Island or a simple farmer’s market motif embroidered cardigan. Perfect.
The outerwear: trenches in spring are akin to florals for spring, groundbreaking right? Yes, yes they really are, and I love a good trench coat. One from M&S is what I swear by, I don’t know what it is, but M&S have been killing the game in the style department recently and its good, really good.
For spring I’m throwing off the winter coats throwing in the trench (I love a good trench I do) and paring jeans with cardigans and finally back in trainers discarding chunky boots until December. And the sweetest thing is I need not buy anything as I’ve noted my wardrobe is brimming with excess; a multitude of things of trends is colours. If I decide never to shop for ten years even I will still have e a solid wardrobe.
So, what’s in your wardrobe for spring?