Spring Season | Summer Color Type

28 Pieces // 60 Outfits

Today, let’s create another casual capsule wardrobe example for the Theatrical Romantic Kibbe type!

My goal for this series is not to provide “the perfect” capsule wardrobe for a specific body type, but to show a few concepts, items, and style elements that you can adopt for your body type. I want to break out of the common Kibbe stereotypes and show you how you can really own your personal style while still incorporating items and combinations that honor your body type.

A Client Capsule Example

This time, I’m sharing a capsule wardrobe that I recently created for a client with a Theatrical Romantic body type and a Soft Summer color palette.

I thought this capsule wardrobe example would really resonate because this client’s goals for her capsule are quite common. She is looking for a mostly-neutral color palette with just a few pops of soft summer colors. And although she knows it may not technically be her best color, she wants to include plenty of black within her palette because her personal style just doesn’t feel the same without it.

She has a casual, classic, and minimalist style with a bit of a romantic touch. She loves skinny jeans, faux leather leggings, peplum tops, and long cardigans which goes to show how our style intuition can often line up very well with the clothing recommendations for our body types. She’s also a strict vegan. And finally, she wants to keep each item around $100-$200.

Color Palette

This client is a Soft Summer color type who wants a mostly neutral, minimalist color palette with just a few pops of color. I started her color palette off with a cool cream and black as the base. Although black is often not recommended for Soft Summers, black is very important in this client’s personal style and her current wardrobe. So let’s give her plenty of options in black! Once she is able to experiment more with a lighter, Soft Summer color palette and black becomes less of a comfort zone for her, she can choose to use black more strategically to create an effect, or perhaps to use black only in certain seasons. But until then, it’s always important to include the colors that you love most in your capsule!

Then, for a bit of color, let’s add light denim blue, dusty pink, and rose. This client already owns a few pink pieces, including a bold pink blazer which we are going to incorporate into this capsule.

And finally, let’s add a few more variations of light neutrals to give more depth and interest to this mostly-neutral color palette. Off-white, cool beige, and neutral camel brown complete the color palette.

Capsule Wardrobe

Now that we have our color palette, let’s put together our casual Theatrical Romantic capsule wardrobe.

I had worked with this client before, so there were a few items that we had chosen during previous sessions that I knew I would be including in her capsule. A pink blazer, a white cap sleeve bodysuit, a pink longline cardigan, a beige blazer, a long sleeve knit with a sweetheart neckline, a baby blue t-shirt, a pair of blue skinny jeans, a pair of beige or taupe ankle boots, a pair of white sneakers, and a camel structured bag.

For her capsule, she really wants to take things back to basics and choose items that are either very well suited to her body type, or that are items she already loves to wear. So let’s see how we can add some simple but elevated basics to round out her wardrobe and give her tons of outfit options that she will enjoy wearing.

The Final Capsule

The final capsule includes 9 tops, 4 bottoms, 1 romper, 5 jackets, 5 shoes, and 3 bags for 28 items which can create at least 60 interchangeable outfits.

** Note that not all item recommendations below are vegan.**