The saying that less is more is a minimalists’ watchword. The popular myth that all men are minimalist should be debunked. When you access some men’s wardrobe, you begin to understand the essence of a minimalist fashion guide. Minimalist is a fashion style that has been known to curtail hoarding.
It is often referred to as a lean wardrobe style. It entails simple, minimum things you need to create an expandable, seasoned wardrobe that suits your daily life. This fashion style is not meant for a particular class, pocket, age group, physique, body size or skin color. The minimalist wardrobe is intended to preserve its message, originality, creativity, and style. Limiting yourself to just a few items will force you to keep only the best. The fact that the minimalist style lacks complication and is adaptable is what makes it classy and timeless.
The minimalist wardrobe consists of classic and timeless pieces that are aimed at making you look the way you feel you should look with little effort. These are the following basic essentials necessary for every minimalist wardrobe. This list is subject to various tweaks depending on your job type. If you work where a suit is required every day, you would need more than one suit to set your minimalist wardrobe in motion. The following is the essential minimalist clothing list:
- Charcoal grey suit: This will be a multipurpose outfit for important occasions and formal events like weddings, funerals, interviews, and the likes. Preferably one with two-buttons. The pants can also go a long way to serve as ordinary pants with other shirts. The jacket can function as a jacket over chinos or jeans and boom you have another outfit.
- Khaki or blue chinos: This is an essential outfit necessary to create a whole range of simple but classy looks. This simple piece of clothing can give you a more sharp look with a jacket to compliment it.
- Dark denim jeans: A must have for every minimalist wardrobe. Denim never goes out of fashion irrespective of what design you have. They are always a perfect fit for almost all occasions. It goes with about just anything as long as they are plain with no ridiculous rips or stitchings.
- Shirts: A couple of plain and patterned shirts are compulsory most especially if you have to dress corporate to work on a daily basis. You have to apply the rule of color that will be discussed in that later segments of tips.
- Grey v-neck tee: The grey tee is a versatile outfit which can be worn both as an underdress and a typical outfit on its own. The choice of grey color is for it not to be visible when used as a layer. When paired with any pants it is stylish.
- Brown cap toe oxfords: Sometimes ignored, but shoes are questionably most important. They are necessary to make or break your outfit. Quality is needed when getting shoes and a quality pair is essential.
- Casual leather belt: A standard leather belt is very important not some weird looking belt with funny buckles that fall off. They get value from a good quality leather belt.
- Wool v-neck sweater: This is a must-have for when the atmospheric temperature drops. The choice of a v-neck is so that it can work in a multipurpose way like over a shirt to give a simple but yet official look.
- Leather sneakers: The foundation to any minimalist wardrobe, these understated kicks set the tone for your outfit’s clean lines and tonal hues.
- Wool overcoat: You wouldn’t want winter to come without you having one of these. The regular sweaters wouldn’t just do justice to the chills. And they can be very stylish as well. Long, sleek, and built for any weather. Keep the lapels simple and avoid add-ons like belts.
TIPS TO PLANNING AND WEARING MINIMALIST
The following tips will always come in handy;
- The first rule and suggestion are to be brutal when getting rid of clothes. Don’t be afraid to purge your wardrobe. The minimalist lifestyle does not allow you to keep anything you haven’t worn in six months.
- In the order of purchase, pants are first, then gradually including other items like a sweater, shirt, tie and so on.
- Get about five dress shirts in a plain or small pattern.
- Get two or three sweaters – two in basic colors like navy blue and grey and one not basic, like red.
- Always make sure your shirts are tailored to fit you perfectly.
- There are fashion and stylishness in simplicity. Keep It simple at all times.
- Colors are necessary to make the minimalist wardrobe complete. Color often determines if a particular outfit will turn out fashionably or fail woefully. The minimalist’s range of colors should be black, navy, grey, white, and shades of off-white. This is because you simply can’t go wrong mixing these colors and helps to avert a fashion disaster.
- Every piece of clothing must have more than one purpose or use.
- You don’t have to buy a hundred of the same piece and claim you are having a minimalist wardrobe, but rather learn to do your laundry more often.
The minimalist wardrobe, without doubt, has its disadvantages but you must be prepared for them. Before we mention the disadvantages, a quick look at the advantages includes:
- You have less clutter
- You less laundry to do.
- It becomes easier to pick an outfit.
- It’s easy to pack and less to carry when traveling or moving.
- It prevents hoarding.
On the other hand, you have to be prepared for the following disadvantages;
- The lack of variety
- Lack of the appropriate outfit for a particular occasion.
- Looking unique becomes difficult.
CONCLUSION
Conclusively, Minimalism is not so much an architectural or design concept, as a mode of thinking in itself. The basic framework is, characteristically, simple to follow: this is about ascetic clothing rather than aesthetic, which means as little fuss as possible. More clothes aren’t the solution to bad style but minimalist style.
