Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 7: Downsizing pants/trousers

 Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 7:  Downsizing pants/trousers

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Generally speaking, I believe pants/trousers are relatively easier to downsize, compared to tops/shirts and other items.

One is more likely to remember another person's top/shirt, more than kind of pants/trousers they had.

Nonetheless, pants/trousers can still take up a lot of our wardrobe spaces as they can come in different designs, colors, textures, for various types of occasions/purposes.

When you downsize, consider your lifestyle first. If you prefer lots of outfit varieties for your occupation/lifestyle, then downsize by a little, and if your pants don't really need lots of attention, then you can downsize maybe more. 

I did have a number of pants in different colors/designs, but since I work in an office sitting at a desk, I don't think my pants are noticed/remembered as much as my tops by anyone, nor do I even keep track of which pair I've worn on what day, so it's better that I downsize enough to relieve myself from decision fatigue and go for a simple wardrobe for easy outfit making.

So I began by taking out all the pants I had. Here are some of them that I had, that I took a picture of, to explain why I let go of them.

As you can see, they're all in different colors, and designs. The pants on the left and right look like ordinary pants, but with the tops I had, there were only a few that paired well with these colors. Also, I tend to do tops = lighter color, and bottom = darker color, because I feel like that's the right color balance. (If I did darker top, with lighter color bottom, it always felt something wasn't right.) 

As for the pair in the middle, because it's got extra designs on it, it was even more difficult for me to pair, I probably only paired it with white shirt, and felt that there's not much significance in keeping it the entire year, if I only wore it once in a long while. 

So these were my causes to let go of these pants.

The pants that I decided to keep, are ones like below, very basic and simple. See Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 1: The introduction and you'll notice that all my work pants are in navy/black tones.

So for about every 3-4 pairs of pants (colorful/with designs), I would keep 1 pair (dark/basic).

Link to comfortable pull on pants

When we initially think about downsizing, we tend to feel lost or unsure where to begin, but if once we've successfully identified the reason for downsizing with logics that meet our lifestyles, we can then actually make it work.

Also, for those of us whose weight may fluctuate from time to time, I suggest keeping or replacing the pants with elastic pants like these, so we don't have to own too many pairs or worry about the pants not fitting well. 

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