Outfit : Em's Capsule #3 | Basic Instincts

hair + makeup by melissa hoffmann | photos by ashley kelemen

The biggest thing the capsule wardrobe experiment is teaching me:

Embrace the Basic.

I like being basic. It's ok to be basic! The hardest challenge I face in my wardrobe is that I am always drawn to shiny, sparkly, special things.

But when it comes to getting dressed day in and day out, I don't really want to wear those things. I get sick of them, and fast. This is my eternal struggle: I want prints! Color! Embellishments!

What I really like is more of a blank canvas. I want to be able to settle into how I feel that day without sparkly things telling me I need to be more fabulous.

This whole experiment is trying to unearth the way that dressing makes me feel. I can tell even just by looking at these images that this outfit makes me feel good. It makes me want to move. And play. That's the kind of woman I am.