My basic wardrobe

Visiting visiting friends, I realize that in their understanding of "basic wardrobe" - it's a big four-door cabinet with lots of compartments and drawers, stuffed to the eyeballs absolutely necessary clothing and footwear. Often the scale of these stocks does not even know the mistress, but this offer is necessary to thin out the debris allegedly perceived as a personal insult.

For me, even with the meager pleasant excesses to student days, a basic wardrobe - what you can take with you in a week-long business, but combined with entertainment trip to the city with climate variability, such as London. That is - the base case. This cute trifle like suitable to the little black dress (what is an indispensable element of any basic wardrobe, can be considered a truism) handbags or beads can be bought on the spot and not to drag with him on the plane - then, by the way, you can give a friend as a souvenir from a trip.

With the same student days, I chose where to buy the most basic things that will survive and travel, and laundry, and dry cleaning, and soirees, and anything with dignity. I say, there is a thin black silk-cashmere sweater from London to Kings Gap Road: once when my luggage was lost, I was washing it every day and has dried on the warm floor Cannes Hotel Martinez. Sweater worked flawlessly, "evening dress" in combination with a silk scarf, bought right there in the street of Antibes, and replaced with sleeves rolled up T-shirt on a hot afternoon.

Habitual mass marketnye brands such as H & M and TopShop not fit my suitcase base for a simple reason: their things quickly lose appearance. But I have black pants made of fine woolen fabric from the collection of Benetton in 1999, that I wear is still regularly handing over to the dry cleaners, they meekly suffer. Once, of course, you have to throw them away - I already sad, imagining how it would be difficult to find a worthy replacement.

Recently, the "Atrium" opened "Japan Benetton" - Uniqlo. I'm going to come back to a pair of lightweight summer jumpers cashmere. An indispensable thing for basic suitcase - because apart from black sweater, it is possible to have, say, yellow. And in extreme cases even blue. The main thing - do not get involved in that the base case is not increased to the basic wardrobe.

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