Welcome to our series, The Easy to Use Wardrobe, where I share one tip or tool to help you make your wardrobe easier to use.
I know you want to open up your closet doors, look inside, love everything you see, and be able to pull outfit after outfit from it easily each day.
If this feels like a dream, rest assured that it can legit become a reality!
How? By having a system for style.
You don’t have to be born with a sense of style or have an innate understanding of how to put together a better wardrobe. You just need better frameworks for style. So in this series, I’m sharing bits and pieces of the system I use (and teach) to have a wardrobe that’s easy to use.
Check out the free checklist I shared and all other posts in this series, HERE.
Easy Wardrobe Tip: Choose a Color Palette
Now, here’s this week’s tip: Choose a color palette for your wardrobe.
You’ve probably heard this or thought about it. But, have you DONE it?
Working with a color palette for your wardrobe makes it SOOOOOOOOOOO, SO much easier to get dressed. I cannot stress this enough!
Having a color palette for your wardrobe will save you TONS of time getting dressed each day plus save you HOURS of trying on stuff you ultimately won’t wear.
Have you struggled to wear a top because you don’t have the right color pants or the right color layer to pair with it?
Maybe you had grand plans to wear more of the clothes you own but find yourself unable to because you don’t own things that go with them!
A mishmash of pieces makes a wardrobe hard to use. It’s what leaves you with tons of clothes yet nothing to wear. Because all those clothes you own don’t actually go together, so you can’t actually wear them!
There are several factors that work together to create a cohesive, easy-to-use wardrobe, and having a color palette is one of them.
When you work with a color palette, you eliminate the problem with mismatching colors. Instead, you have plenty of options in the right colors to pair together, which means you can more easily and effortlessly grab things and throw them together.
Imagine having a closet full of wonderfully coordinated items that work seamlessly together. How much frustration would that spare you in the morning? How much peace would you feel as you easily get dressed? How much time would that save you?
On top of that, having a focused color palette allows you to SHOP much, MUCH more easily. In fact, the very first thing you should look at when considering pieces is their COLOR. This way, you can browse stores and immediately filter out allllllll the pieces that won’t work in your closet based on color alone — you don’t even need to try them on to know! This will save you HOURS browsing, trying on, and eventually returning items. It really streamlines the shopping process and cuts out so many pieces that you don’t even need to bother with!
Amazing, isn’t it?
So, how do you develop a color palette?
1. Choose Main Neutrals + Colors
One of the most basic ways to get started is to choose: 1) Main Neutrals, and 2) a handful of Colors. You can simply choose your favorite colors and then ensure they go together.
Or, you can use my easy method of grabbing your favorite printed item or a painting in your house and copying the colors in the print. This is a really easy way to develop a color palette because the print does all the work and thinking for you. You just copy it!
If you’ve downloaded my free Starter Kit Wardrobe Checklist, make sure you fill in the Color Palette page inside it with your neutrals and colors.
With this basic palette as a starting point, your wardrobe will become MUCH more cohesive, and therefore, much easier to use. Now, if you find having just a few colors limiting, don’t worry, you can add on to your simple color palette later! But starting with a cohesive core ensures you have a good foundation on which to build. (It’s the same approach that we use with the Starter Kit Wardrobe. You start small and focused to create a strong, cohesive foundation to build seamlessly upon.)
By the way, if you are a Simply Put Together student or a PMT Style Club member, I show you how you can include a TON of colors in your wardrobe in a way that’s cohesive and easy to use. Go to your course dashboard for the lesson on Creating Your Color Palette.
2. Have a Color Specialist Create Your Palette
If you want a more robust color palette, AND you want colors that will enhance your complexion, you can also get your colors done by a color specialist!
A professional color analyst will look at your hair, eyes, and complexion and determine a color palette for you that complements your natural coloring and makes you look your best.
Having your colors done eliminates the thinking and the guesswork of creating a color palette and helps you go straight to having a wardrobe full of colors that not only work with each other but also work perfectly for YOU!
If you often feel boring, blah, or washed out in your clothes, wearing your best colors will completely change that. You can completely transform your complexion from washed out to healthy and fresh by just changing the colors.
I recently got a color analysis by Color Guru and wrote all about it HERE. I feel like I had a good intuitive sense of my colors prior to the analysis, but getting an analysis by Color Guru was still really clarifying. It helped me focus my wardrobe even MORE and weed out pieces I was on the fence about so that my wardrobe is even more streamlined and easier to use.
If you often feel blah or washed out in your clothes, I believe it’s totally worth getting your colors done. And, you can get 10% off any Color Guru package with code PMTCOLOR! Find all of their packages HERE.
Whether you go for a simple color palette or get a robust one done by a color specialist, DEVELOP A COLOR PALETTE FOR YOUR WARDROBE! It will seriously make your wardrobe SOOOOOOOOOOOO much easier to use AND save you time while you’re shopping!
Free Starter Kit Wardrobe Checklist!
A Starter Kit Wardrobe is a small collection of items that kick-starts your wardrobe. Once you assemble this small-but-mighty core collection, you’ll be able to build on to it and create a mix-and-match wardrobe suited to your style. This small core will anchor your entire wardrobe moving forward, enabling you to build a cohesive wardrobe that is easier to use.
With this FREE Starter Kit Wardrobe Checklist, you can get started right away.
In the guide, you’ll find easy-to-follow checklists for casual, work, and athleisure. The checklists are super simple — and that’s the point!
These checklists make the wardrobe building process simpler so that you know what to focus on and can overcome the overwhelm immediately, get unstuck, and finally move forward towards having a wardrobe you love. Get the FREE Checklist HERE!
