Casual Wardrobe Essentials For Spring 2023 / Basics vs Essentials

today I just want to jump right in and talk to you about the difference between Basics and Essentials and then I want to show you some updated Essentials that I think you can add to your wardrobe and the only way I know how to do that is to use some examples that I have purchased for myself so if you are new around here welcome to my channel my name is Jamie I would love it if you like this video or love this video please give it a thumbs up and also hit that subscribe button and the little bell to get notifications so you don't miss any of my content and I also want to thank ritual for sponsoring part of this video I cannot wait to share their product with you and I will do that in just a few minutes so I have been working a lot on my Essential wardrobe here lately because it needed to make more sense to me and it made me think about okay what is the difference between my Basics and my essentials and what I feel like the difference is is that your Basics are really those foundational pieces that are understated and very boring that's what basic means it's just very very basic sick and you need these pieces in your wardrobe to wear other things these are maybe your undergarments your camisoles your t-shirts things like that that actually allow you to wear your Essentials and your standout pieces and then your Essentials are really include your Basics so we'll include that in this essential category but your Essentials are also other things and the main thing about Essentials are they are things that you wear all the time this is the main part of your wardrobe whatever that looks like for you might be different so I'm not going to give you a list that you need to find a striped t-shirt that you need to find a white button-up shirt so I've given these lists before but it really made me think like am I really that girl that wears a white button-up shirt all the time no so guess what that would not be included in my essentials that might be a standout piece it's something that I'm going to set aside and I might wear every now and then but for me the bulk of these Essentials are going to be the things that you wear all of the time and that is going to be different for everyone but I do want to share with you some of the things that I have personally added because you guys love seeing a lot of the things that I do and anytime I do a video you think it's because it's my personal style and a lot of times it's not a lot of times I'm just trying to come up with different ways that you could style things so maybe this will give you ideas I'm going to show you my personal Essentials and maybe it will give you ideas to add to yours so before I jump into this spring essential clothing items I do want to share a very important essential with you and this is an essential multivitamin by ritual they have an 18 plus which is what I'm taking and a 50 plus and they have some other products if you want to check them out but I've been trying this out for the 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giving your body the essentials that it needs so the first category I want to start with is tops and there are going to be some basics in here but there are also Essentials that work really well for me and a lot of people will tell you okay and it's essential that you need in your closet is a white button-up shirt and essential you need is a white T-shirt but that is just going to be different for you and me and if you don't wear white t-shirts it's not going to be an essential for you I wear white t-shirts so this is a great basic that I have and an essential but I also have a black I also have a tan color that I added this season because I have a lot of things that I thought you know what I just need a neutral tan t-shirt and this was from h m and I just I snatched it up because it's really the only tan t-shirt that I could find and I am really going to enjoy that especially if I'm wearing white jeans and I don't want to wear a white T-shirt I'd throw on the tan t-shirt and then a Blazer and you know just have a little fun with that and also your striped t-shirts I think these are great Essentials to have this is a navy and then this is a black and white and I have pulled these out over and over and over again and I think they make an outfit a little bit more interesting if you don't want just your basic solid t-shirts and I do have to say that stripes are very very on Trend and you could even do a colorful stripe and it would look really good in an essential wardrobe and I think you would pull it out over and over again if you like wearing color so I will probably add a color in here at some point when I find one that I really love because I do love color and I do want color to be a part of my Essential wardrobe and the last thing I want to talk about and tops are like your sweaters so a lot of people talk about sweaters as an essential for Springtime and I do think that they do have a place and I actually got this sweater because I loved it again it's another camel stripe but it's very interesting and I find myself pulling this out and just wearing it I can wear it with black pants because it has the black trim on the sleeve I can wear it with white I can wear it with denim so I can do a lot with this and this has become an essential for me this year and it's really cute and it fits me really well so um these are the the tops that I pulled out that I was like okay I really really love these and I totally forgot to share this one that I have on with you as I see myself in the mirror so this is my favorite top so far I've probably worn this more than any of these and it's just a camel and white stripe button-up shirt instead of your white button-up shirt you can find something that is a little bit different that you want to wear that you gravitate towards and if it's not a stripe it can be a solid but this was my choice because I love the camel color right now I don't know why I've never really gotten into it before but this year I really liked it and actually goes really well with my hair so just think about the things in your closet that you have right now that you just love to wear and buy more of those okay so now I want to talk about my favorite clothing item which is a jacket I don't know what I would do without all of my jackets because I just love to layer and so there are some more updated things that you can add as an essential so instead of your normal denim jacket that's blue you could find one that's a different color so I got this wheel jacket which is a cream denim which I've shared this in another video but this comes in all kinds of colors it's a little bit longer it's casual but you can belt the outside of it which I have done and really style this very nicely and I have actually been grabbing this out of my closet and just taking it with me if I need something to cover my arms like I took it the other night when I went out and I wore this I took this with me in case I got chili and had to put it on so but also other Essentials that are perfect I just added this Navy Blazer and I have worn this like crazy too because you can throw it over your other Essentials which are your t-shirts you can throw it on with a blouse you can make it great for work with pants you could even wear black pants with this or camel pants but I mostly wear denim with this so a Blazer of some kind I also have my oversized Blazer that I have gone to a million times and worn and I never thought I would so these have definitely become my essentials that I wear all the time and I'm going to wear them through spring probably not in summer because it's going to be 100 degrees and then I wanted to show you the pink one because I love pink and there are times that I wear the heck out of this I think it I go in phases so I have added a pink Blazer as an essential for me as well and then I think a great jacket to add this year is a tweed jacket and the Tweed jackets are so fun I did an entire video on this one which is just an ivory Tweed and then I just got this one I haven't even taken the tags off of it yet but I just did a loft try on haul and this almost sold out I think it might be sold out now but the Tweed jackets are so fun find one if you want to add a cute little tweed jacket or just a cropped jacket of some kind to your wardrobe I think that would make a great spring essential and it doesn't matter what color you get I chose these two because I just thought they were fun and they'll go with denim or pants and you know I try to think about versatile ability in the items I pick as well and so think about that but mostly think about things that you love to wear and that you can mix your tops and your bottoms really well together so that's another thing but first and foremost it just needs to match whatever your personal style is so another thing that I've added this really isn't a jacket it's more of a coat but it's worn as a stylish item I think and I have just looked at people wearing these for years and I could never really find one that fit me very well and so I finally found a single breasted trench coat I think a trench coat is perfect if you live in an area that is just constantly raining because this one is actually water repellent and it definitely is and I have grabbed this a number of times if I could find a single breasted version in a little bit longer that wasn't too overwhelming on me then I would definitely definitely do that but a trench coat is a great essential to have you don't have to do that color they come in beautiful colors or you can get them in Navy or black but if you need just a jacket that you can grab when it's raining or just something that you would want to keep on because it looks really good that is a great Trend this season and I think it's been trending for a little while and I do think it's a great classic piece that can be a perfect essential for just about anyone's wardrobe but if it's not something you love don't do it but if you love jackets and coats maybe try it because I didn't think it was totally me but I have really really enjoyed it so this next item I know people are probably going to think that it's a little bit more of a trend than it would be like an essential wear all the timepiece but for me this was something that I'm going to wear all the time and I do wear all the time and I wear it all the time that I bought it in two colors so this is a denim vest and I loved it because of the Ruffles I just love Ruffles you know I have a plain denim vest and that has just totally taken a back seat now that I have this one but a vest whether it's a denim vest like this whether it has Ruffles whether it's just plain whether it looks like a suit vest whether it's knit I think a vest is a great piece that you could add and make your your wardrobe a little bit more versatile it can be an essential if it's something that you love and you can put it over t-shirts you can put it over long sleeve tops you can do all kinds of things with this you can put over dresses so I think it's an interesting piece that is something that's not going to go out of style for a while I think I'll wear this one forever I've always loved denim vests I just think they're fun and you know what if you don't like the denim vest maybe do a shorter crop denim jacket and that would be a great piece so now I want to talk about jeans so we're going to start on the bottom section because I think jeans are very very important if you have a casual wardrobe and I just so happen to live in jeans so I do have the same style in four different washes because I love the jeans so much and the light wash is what I gravitate towards but I got I just recently got it in black and then I have it in a dark wash so I can wear it with certain things if I need to be a little more bit more dressed up and then I have it in white because I do think white is a great essential to have in the spring and summer black not necessarily but I will wear the black right now transitioning in but the white I think is essential although a lot of people don't love wearing white so I'm I'm not going to tell you to buy a white jean if you want a lighter wash Jean for the spring and summer go for an ivory I actually have an ivory Jean coming and I'm hoping I can add it to my essentials I'm hoping it's something that I love to wear but we will see so just find a jean and I didn't tell you the style of this it's a slim straight for me and I think a straight leg is a great basic style to have but if you don't love the straight leg it might be a skinny it might be a boot cut might be a flare might be a wide leg so whatever you choose just find something that looks really good on you that fits really well and that you really love to wear and the next things that I added are some pants which I'm not a big pants girl but I did want this as part of my Essential wardrobe because I want to I want something that I can mix and match with these things if I have somewhere if that I need to be a little bit more dressed up so I just recently got these pants which I did have on in my clothing haul that I did for Loft and this is a great great wide leg pant that I thought was so fun and it's in Navy and this to me works better than your dressed up trouser because you can dress this up a little bit but you can also wear it very very very casual if you want to so I thought a Navy pant or a black pant like this or even a khaki pant like this would be a great essential and it's a little bit more updated in style since it's that wide leg and then I also just recently added this skinny pant that has a slit in the side and it's the slit is done by a zipper but the slit pants have become very popular even the slit jeans whether it's on the side or in the front you're seeing all different options I really think that that's a fun piece that you could add to your essential wardrobe and I mean this is a good basic too because it's a black skinny pant which I think goes with a lot of different things and these skinny pants these slim pants are coming back even the tapered trouser pant I think is really nice and a good addition so I do think that skirts and dresses are a really good option to have in your essential wardrobe especially if that is something that you like to wear now I'm not a big dress or skirt person they just I don't have a need for them most of the time and a lot of them can be a little more dressy than you know my lifestyle but I did find a dress that I loved that was totally me that is a little black dress which a lot of people tell you at least have a little black dress in your closet and I used to tell people that when I would help them with their closet like either a black dress or a Navy but really you just need a dress that you can pull out that can be casual or that can be dressed up a little bit that kind of matches some of the things that you have going on in your life so it could be a cocktail dress if you have a lot of cocktail events you have to go to or it could be something really casual if you have showers or you know weddings things like that that you need to go to and this was my choice for a very kind of basic but elevated dress so I loved this and I have to shout out to Aaron at Busby style for promoting this with Banana Republic she did a partnership and I just fell in love with it and I was like I have to have that dress and I didn't even know if I would I just got it today so I didn't know I was going to put it in this video but I thought I would since I'm so in love with it and I just want to show you something that is very basic but has very cool detail to it like the Ruffles and the cute sleeve because I just don't usually like really plain solid things with nothing else to them so this is a plain black dress but it's not plain it's a solid black dress that's elevated and I just thought it was so adorable so find something that matches your personality that you're going to want to pull out of your closet and you're going to want to wear and you're going to be excited about when something comes up and you can actually wear it and this one I would probably put on just to work at my desk because it makes me happy and it's just so adorable so find something that makes you happy and that you think that way about but I hope you really got a lot out of this video I hope it helped you to think about your essential wardrobe and how you would make yours work for you and don't forget to check out the ritual essential women's vitamin of course that is a great essential to add to all of the essentials that we have talked about today and it's probably the most important one and again they use all clean ingredients they are Time released and very easy on your stomach and everything that is in them all the nine ingredients are completely traceable on their website so definitely grab the code hit the link and you will get 20 off your first month so thank 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Length: 18min 18sec (1098 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 09 2023