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On this episode of Try Living With Lucie, our host, Luce Fink takes her wardrobe to a new extreme with 5 days of a capsule wardrobe. She minimizes the contents of her closet to make getting ready a snap. Watch this 5 day challenge to see if she masters this minimal fashion trend!   ABOUT SERIES Try Living With Lucie follows our favorite R29 millennial, Lucie Fink, as she dives headfirst into social experiments — five days at a time. From a week without sugar to full-blown street performing; there is nothing she won't try!   ABOUT REFINERY29  Refinery29 is a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-rounded life. http://refinery29.com/  RELATED CONTENT 5 Days Of Meal Prep https://youtube.com/watch?v=DWaU47V3rMU 5 Days Of A No Makeup Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbPE58GhZE 5 Days Of Wearing The Same Outfit https://youtube.com/watch?v=PjMr9B7veYM 5 Days Of Only Eating Pizza  https://youtube.com/watch?v=mnrQkORcivA  SEE MORE REFINERY29 VIDEOS http://refinery29.com/video  SUBSCRIBE TO REFINERY29 Subscribe to the Refinery29 channel: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-r29 For the latest trends and videos, visit: http://refinery29.com Like Refinery29 on Facebook: https://facebook.com/refinery29 Follow Refinery29 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/refinery29 Heart Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/  TALENT Follow Lucie Fink on Instagram: https://instagram.com/luciebfink/

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00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this week is 5 Days of a Capsule Wardrobe.

00:04Woo!

00:06What?

00:07Hey guys, it's me, Lucy, and welcome back to Try Living with Lucy.

00:11If you're new to our YouTube channel, click right here and subscribe right now.

00:14But if you're a returning viewer, then thank you for coming back.

00:17I have gotten a ton of suggestions to try 5 Days of a Capsule Wardrobe,

00:21and before this video, I didn't even know what a capsule wardrobe was.

00:25Seriously, I had never Googled it before today.

00:26According to the woman who coined this term, a capsule wardrobe is a collection of a few

00:31essential items of clothing that don't go out of fashion.

00:34That's what they say.

00:35The main idea is to maximize the amount and the types of outfits that you can put together

00:40by using mainly staple items.

00:42And ultimately, it will save you time, help you pare down,

00:45and will let you get creative with what you have so that you don't have that sensation

00:49of looking into a closet that's just filled with clothing and think to yourself,

00:52wow, I have nothing to wear.

00:55Anyway, I could go on for hours and give you more of an explanation about a capsule wardrobe,

01:00or we could just dive right in and I could show you what I did today,

01:03and then we'll talk about the topic more as we go.

01:05Let's do that.

01:10Today, I invited Channing Hargrove, the fashion news writer at Refinery29,

01:15to my apartment so that she could help me tackle stage one of creating this capsule wardrobe.

01:19What is the first step? Where do I start?

01:21Okay, the first thing, are you ready for this?

01:23Yes.

01:23You're going to have to clean your closet out.

01:26I think you should really try to stick within the range of five to ten items.

01:31You can get really creative and kind of just challenge yourself within the challenge.

01:35So you're challenging me to challenge myself within the challenge.

01:39Yes.

01:39That's a lot of meta challenges.

01:41I love it.

01:42Will you come with me into my closet?

01:44Oh, absolutely.

01:44Because I'm scared.

01:45Sure.

01:45All right, let's go.

01:47Oh, no.

01:48This half is mine.

01:49Okay.

01:50It's a bit of a mess.

01:52I've got another hanging section here.

01:54I actually got this shirt at Party City.

01:58I want to give it to someone who needs it more, but I'm like, I need it.

02:01The big moment of the day, we went through my entire closet,

02:05pulled everything out, and then started sorting through and making different piles.

02:10Okay, how do you feel?

02:13Sad.

02:13You want staples and one or two statement pieces.

02:16Right.

02:17So anything that is maybe a little too print heavy or too loud in terms of color.

02:24So this isn't making it into the castle wardrobe?

02:26No, I don't think it will.

02:28I think this is really cute, and I think you can make a lot of different outfits with this.

02:33I do think it is important to have a trusty pair of pants.

02:37Black jeans.

02:37Yes, can't go wrong with black jeans.

02:39High-waisted.

02:40All right.

02:40Yes.

02:41These make it.

02:41Mm-hmm.

02:42Let me show you some shoe options.

02:43Okay.

02:45Okay, this I love.

02:46Comfortable, but new.

02:47This is really cute.

02:49Very good option.

02:55Channing eventually left me because she had to go to work, so we said goodbye.

02:59I finished up a little bit more on my own, but sooner or later, I had to go to work

03:03too.

03:03So I put on my Monday capsule wardrobe outfit, and now I'm home from work, and my room is a

03:10complete disaster, and I've got to go because I have to finish that.

03:18Late last night when it was already dark out, I finished my closet cleanup, and the amount of

03:23hangers that were left on my floor with no clothing on them was epic.

03:27I don't think my closet has been this clear in years, and it feels so good, not only physically

03:33to see how much space is in there, but just mentally.

03:36It feels so fresh.

03:37So today, I packed up two full suitcases that I'm going to bring home to where my parents live

03:42and store it there, and then I packed up four garbage bags filled with clothing and shoes,

03:46and I brought them over to a donation center.

03:48I know what you're thinking.

03:50You now want to know which items I actually picked for my capsule wardrobe.

03:54I will get there in one second, but first, I just want to tell you about this article I read

03:58called How to Create a Capsule Wardrobe, and this woman's capsule wardrobe for a three-month period

04:03had 37 articles of clothing in it, and that doesn't include your underwear or your workout clothes

04:09or pajamas or accessories and jewelry.

04:11It's just your basic clothes.

04:13I thought that since I'm only doing this for five days, I need to really pair that 37 down

04:17and make this a challenge.

04:19Drum roll, please.

04:21Here is what I picked.

04:23Black high-waisted jeans.

04:25A little black tank top, which is longer than you think, and also doubles as a little black dress.

04:30A button-down striped shirt.

04:32A long-sleeved shirt with stripes going in the other direction.

04:35Rose gold booties that are very comfortable because I have to wear them for five days.

04:38And a bright coral jacket, because with such neutral colors in the rest of the wardrobe,

04:43sometimes you just gotta let your color pop.

04:45This is such a short-term challenge, but I am really determined to put together a whole range

04:51of versatile outfits with these six items this week.

04:53Yesterday's outfit, once I went off to work, was my black jeans, the button-down striped shirt,

04:58and my rose gold boots.

04:59I tied a headband into my hair, and then I added a chunky pair of statement sunglasses.

05:04And today's outfit was this striped turtleneck long sleeve underneath my little black dress,

05:08and, of course, my rose gold boots.

05:10But tonight, I'm meeting Michael for a dinner date, so my plan is to slink out of the long-sleeved

05:14turtleneck and just leave on the little black dress.

05:17I'm gonna take this choker that I have that has a rose gold pendant,

05:20and I'm gonna wear that around my neck just to kind of coordinate the neck and the shoes.

05:23Keep in mind, I intentionally did not make this capsule wardrobe super wintry,

05:27even though it is winter, and that's for a couple reasons.

05:30One is that it's an especially warm week here, and two is that I want you guys to be able

05:35to use this video as a guide for spring and summer, too.

05:38So this is not seasonal.

05:39This is just an example.

05:44For today's outfit, I got a little crafty.

05:47I found a video online of Connie Wang, Refinery29's fashion features director,

05:51teaching you how to tie a button-down shirt like a skirt.

05:54So the shirt that I wore as a shirt on Monday is a skirt today.

05:58I tucked the black tank top into it, threw on this choker with these feathers for a little pop of

06:02color,

06:03and put on my booties. For the past three days, I've been repeating the same articles of clothing,

06:07I've just been styling them differently, and absolutely nobody at work has noticed.

06:12People apparently love button-down blouse skirts.

06:15I mean, that is an amazing fashion tip that could really help a person out if they somehow

06:19found themselves in a situation where they didn't have any pants handy.

06:22But truthfully, even if you do have pants at your disposal, it's still really cute.

06:26Ever since I did five days in the same outfit, I've been obsessed with recycled fashion,

06:30and so actually the long sleeve striped turtleneck in my capsule wardrobe was given to me secondhand

06:35by a friend, and this tank top dress combo belonged to my mom in the 80s.

06:40And some things just never go out of style.

06:41We currently are living in a world that is obsessed with fast fashion,

06:45and wearing these cheap, disposable articles of clothing that are made in really poor working conditions.

06:50So yes, while the capsule wardrobe can be about saving you time and helping up your fashion game,

06:56in a lot of ways this is more so about being sustainable, ethical, and contributing in

07:01your own personal way to this large global movement.

07:07A few things to know about a capsule wardrobe.

07:10Number one, and probably most importantly, I'm doing a five-day challenge this week,

07:15so that's why this is a challenge, but doing a capsule wardrobe is not supposed to be a challenge.

07:20It's not about how few items you can wear and how many different ways you can wear the same item.

07:24No, no, no.

07:25Instead, it's a lifestyle and a way of keeping your closet that you can adopt gradually over time.

07:30For people just starting out here, it is okay if you don't have all of the essential items that

07:35you need up front, and if you need to swap something out or buy a new item to include in

07:39your capsule,

07:40that is totally fine.

07:41Number two, and this is a problem that many people who create capsule wardrobes have.

07:45I feel like I'm a very colorful person, and I actually love statement pieces as opposed to staples,

07:51so creating a wardrobe this week of only staples that's mainly filled with blacks and whites has

07:56left me feeling a little bit uninspired throughout the week.

07:59Today's look is my black jeans tucked into the booties instead of rolled up like they were on

08:03Monday, my striped long-sleeved turtleneck, and I added this pop of a bright yellow scarf to give it

08:08some life.

08:08Just remember that items like sunglasses, jewelry, purses, and scarves are not part of your main capsule

08:14wardrobe, so you can really use this time to play around with accessories and add a pop of

08:19color with a bright statement piece.

08:20And number three, even though I'm getting really crafty this week by wearing the same

08:24article of clothing in multiple ways, that's not really what the capsule wardrobe is about either.

08:29It's more so about taking a few staple items and creating a lot of different outfit combinations

08:34with them.

08:34This is not about one piece of clothing worn five ways.

08:38That was just something I added in because I thought it was fun and I wanted to be innovative,

08:42and because it was very fun, I want to do it one more time.

08:45So tonight I'm going out to dinner with my friends,

08:47and I'm going to lose the scarf and the long sleeve shirt, and I'm putting the blouse back on,

08:51and I'm going to figure out a different way to wear it.

08:54So what I'm doing is I'm going to put it on backwards, and thankfully this particular blouse

08:58has a sort of tied knot and a slit in the back, so it looks really cool as the front.

09:03And then I'm going to button the top button and the second button down, but leave the rest of them

09:06open so that it creates this open back flare look.

09:10And I'm going to see if anyone even notices that my shirt's on backwards.

09:17All of my friends noticed that my shirt was on backwards.

09:20I have to be honest about that.

09:22But that being said, they still thought it was cute, and I thought it was cute,

09:25so I'm cool with it.

09:26Today's outfit was all black everything except for my rose gold boots and this pop of pink on my neck.

09:31And tonight's Friday, so when I go out, I'm going to lose this necktie

09:34and just add a pop of bright purple to my lips.

09:37All right, here are my fully condensed thoughts on a capsule wardrobe.

09:41I could probably go on with the same six item wardrobe for the rest of the month if you asked

09:45me to,

09:45but I would be feeling a little bored.

09:48It was starting to feel a little limiting by the end, and I almost felt as if I was on

09:52a clothing diet.

09:53And in many ways, that was really awesome because it freed up my mind

09:57from needing to look through so many options in the morning, and it led me to clean out my closet,

10:01which felt great.

10:02The major downside is that I'm starting to miss my really brightly colored non-staple items.

10:07I tend to get a lot of mileage out of my clothing, and after this week,

10:11I'm starting to feel like a capsule wardrobe was made for people who were not getting that same

10:16mileage.

10:16So I love that I paired down my closet, but I don't think that I need to stick with a

10:20capsule wardrobe.

10:21Now I want to know your thoughts on this topic, so comment below and let me know if you're a

10:25capsule

10:25wardrobe person or just not at all.

10:28Let's take a poll.

10:28And as always, comment below and let me know what you want to see me try next time for five

10:32days at a time.

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10:43See ya!

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