How to use COLOR to optimize your wardrobe for stunning minimalist aesthetic outfits!

Me: thinks "But Hannah what about your gorgeous blue sweater??"  You: Girl, I know.

As a 3 year-old girl in a grown ass woman's body, I LIVE for color ... Like, all of them, all at once. With glitter. But preach on, sister!

A video I’d love to see is a guide to fashion for people who walk everywhere. It really changes your shoe options and thus your outfits. I love these non shopping videos.

I cycle through 4 seasonal palettes. Pastel spring, bright colorful summer, earthy grunge autumn, and goth black winter. I have so many aesthetic moods, they all need their own time to shine. if I mixed them too much all at once it would be chaos, aesthetically diluted, and my closet would be too full. Switching my wardrobe over is something I look forward to, everything old feels new :’)

I love how inclusive you are in your photo examples...

So probably a slant take away, but as someone who knits their own sweaters, remembering how the finished garment will fit with my larger wardrobe when looking at all the pretty, fun and squishy colorways. I've realized recently I need to figure out the project before getting the yarn. And now I need to add thinking about the finished thing too. It sounds so simple but when you are looking at craft supplies it's HARD to remember and not just let my shiny crow brain take over

I’m not about to limit myself to 2 colors because I’m much too chaotic for that, but I do like the idea of being intentional with basic pieces like shoes, bags, and coats. I don’t even own a black coat, but I own a red coat and it goes with everything while still being a cute statement. Same with my saddle brown boots, belt, and bag. Everything else may be telling a crazy color story, but the accessories keep it from being completely unhinged 😅

This video just confirms for me, that i am a true maximilist. In every sense of the word. Always and forever! I swear, nothing brings me greater joy, than to open my wardrobe and see my crazy, chaotic, colourful and mostly vintage items. Don't get me wrong, i wear lots of black too, but i can't imagine a world where i don't use clashing colours and prints to brighten my days! This was really interesting and thought-provoking, Hannah. Vive la difference!

Your fashion videos have been helping me a lot, in a way you probably wouldn't expect. You've helped me realise that while I love aesthetically minimalist outfits they're just not for me. I love colours and patterns and playing with them and the thought of having only four or five colours in my closet saddens me. I wouldn't say I'm a maximalist either, bold pattern mixing and multiple layers aren't for me. I guess I'm just a... Mediumalist, and that's ok

I'm a polychromatic pattern fan and will rarely dress like this but I'm here for the in depth thinking about overall pallet. Seasonal capsule wardrodes with very deliberate color and pattern choices were gamechanging for me.

Really felt this this winter. No matter how great my outfit looked i would put on a navy blue coat that covered everything and it was bought over 7 years ago by a version of me I no longer know. I found a big leather black jacket with warm lining and the first time I put it on I really felt the switch in my attitude. It matches my inner image of myself so much more. And it matches the style and color of my boots as well. Now no matter what i do I cant dress bad bc these 2 pieces always make me feel good 😍

Watching this while wearing an orange/pink/navy/purple suede patchwork dress with black boots and a black turtleneck and a red overcoat on top🧍‍♂️

I know beauty is your forte but your fashion vlogs are my favorite. I hang on every word of your fashion advice. 😍

I’m thinking about all of your younger viewers and how fortunate they are to have your wisdom and expertise passed on to them to utilize as they go forward! And at 73, I’m thinking I need to perhaps rearrange my closet to be sorted just by colors! If it were a walk in, I’d do it tonight! But it’s not and one side is shorter double rods and the other side is a full height rod so alas no rearranging for me tonight, but I may be ready to purge some of those less favorite colored items and start looking at what I have in new ways. It’s a no buy year for me so nothing new, but blessed to be able to evaluate what I do have with fresh eyes! Many thanks!!

I would argue that if a winter coat completely covers your shirt, then you can essentially wear two different bichromatic outfits-one involving your outerwear and accessories, and the other which is your shirt and bottoms. An interesting idea to avoid wardrobe confusion though.

A friend gave me some valuable advice. Ask of each item, is it pretty and I’m just attracted to it, or is it handsome and I want to live with it for a long time. Thanks for everything you do, Hannah.

I've started looking more closely at the shots of a lot of minimalist or minimalist-adjacent influencers and realizing that the size of my wardrobe has been impractically tiny, much much smaller than people who curate deliberately minimalist wardrobes, for nearly my entire life. I struggle with dressing so much and it's become clear to me that the reality is I just don't have enough clothing and probably never have. I don't know what I'm doing wrong either, but I don't feel that I shop that little? I get tired of clothes or never like them in the first place, but wore them because I couldn't just go out naked. I don't know what to do about it. But I do think that building a capsule around a small number of cohesive colors is the first step, just so I can make outfits reliably at all.

If you want to make shopping even harder for yourself, make neither of your two main colors black. Soooo many beautiful fashion items don't even come in other colors!!

Largely thanks to your wisdom over the past year, I've been able to slowly make positive changes in my closet and work towards building a wardrobe I love. This advice about color simplicity has given me the permission to really embrace the few colors I truly love, instead of having an item of every color I like for "versatility's" sake.

This is both really good advice and advice I probably won't follow. I LOVE playing with color so much. And I'm lucky to have always had a solid instinct about how to mix colors harmoniously. I just assumed everyone could do this. I would tell people "just put the two things beside each other, you can instantly tell if something's off or if they sing together". I'd be legitimately confused when a person couldn't do it. But many people have no clue. Giving very clear rules, boundaries and explanations I imagine is way more helpful to them than what I was offering. She's giving people practical tools that they can sharpen and then use in more complex ways down the line. Fantastic!