capsule wardrobe checklist

Most capsule wardrobe checklists are counts: thirty-three items, five tops, two jackets. The number is arbitrary and the list is somebody else's life.

A shorter test works better. For each garment you own, answer one question: would you wear this twice in the same week without thinking about it? Everything that fails is not a wardrobe problem, it is storage.

What survives that test usually has three things in common. It fits without adjustment during the day. It works at more than one temperature. And it does not announce itself, so nobody notices you wore it Tuesday and Thursday both.

That is what we build against. Six models, four fabric weights, from 136 to 340 GSM — enough range to cover a year, few enough that nothing needs a decision. The checklist is short because the wardrobe is: heavy for cold, mid for most days, light for heat, and something that hangs loose over all of it.