10 Essentials for every Woman's Wardrobe

Women love clothes and we all tend to have too many clothes but continue to by more! It's fine to have lots of clothes (I do!), but within your collection of clothes you should have 10 staple items within your closet. These 10 pieces will be considered the most versatile in your entire closet and you'll probably get the most wear out of a few of these pieces.

The item of clothing that every young women needs is a pair of tailored, nice dress pants.  I have some and while I do not like wearing them, they are still good to have.  I purchased my pair at Anne Taylor and they've been good pants for a few years.  When you purchase a black pant, make sure they are tailored to your body and fit properly.  A baggy pant, especially a baggy, black dress pant will look horrible, and you don't want to look ugly.  With these black pants, you can wear any blouse with it or any type of heel or ballet flat. The wardrobe possibilities are endless, even though black pants aren't really my go to work wardrobe choice.

Classic black tailored pants.

The next item that needs to be in every woman's closet is the classic French cut dress shirt or the classic French cut dress shirt dress.  I have both, and both were purchased at J.Crew.  With my French cut dress shirt I typically wear a nice pair of khaki ankle pants (I have two pairs from J.Crew) or you can even do the classic tailored black pant.  With the French cut dress shirt dress I will either where my Micheal Kors gold wedges or my nude heel sandals from Nine West. Both of these look great paired with pearls.  The look is so preppy, cute and classic.

Love this shirt! I have it from J.Crew and love it. So classic.

Here I am at the High Museum.  I toned the dress down that day with just my pair of gold and cork Jack Roger sandals.

A good pair of black pumps need to be a staple in every woman's wardrobe.  I have at least 5 pairs of black heels, all ranging in heel height, style and type of occasion where they would be worn.  But, if you just want to buy 1 good pair of black heels, then I would go with the classic black patent, closed toed heel and the heel height can be what you feel most comfortable with.  Along with the classic black heel, you need a good go to day dress! I love dresses, they're my favorite thing to wear! Now a days it is becoming more popular for women to wear more casual dresses to the workplace, depending on where they work.  As long as you have a semi casual day dress for the summer, spring, fall and winter, then you'll be good to go.  This casual day dress should be able to take you from the office, to lunch with friends and could even be worn on vacation.  There are a dozen stores that will have tons of options, so go where you love to shop. :)

Yes, these are Louboutin's but any black heel will do.

Going along with having a good go to day dress for every season, you need to have an evening dress or at least a cocktail dress on hand at any time! You never know what might pop up and sometimes you don't always have the time to shop for a new outfit.  If you are invited to an event last minute, it's always comforting to know that you have a dress or a few options (hehe). To go along with your evening dress or cocktail dress you need a nice clutch.  I have so many clutches and it's honestly really useful to have a go to black clutch, a gold clutch and possible a silver or metallic clutch (I've only used my metallic/silver a few times, but still very useful). 

Very cute cocktail dress from Lilly Pulitzer.

Evening Dress.

Leaving dresses, I now want to talk about jackets.  It's so important to have a nice coat that you can wear to nice events, a casual coat when you just have on jeans and a sweater and then a dressy jacket for work.  A nice coat for an evening out during the winter would be a mink coat, a long coat (In any color, just make sure it matches or compliments your outfit) or a wrap.  An appropriate casual coat would be a quilted coat that you can throw on with jeans (I have a cute Vince Camuto coat from Nordstrom that I love) or a Pea coat. Either of these coats can sometimes carry you into nice events depending on what you are doing. And then lastly you need a dressy jacket for the workplace.  This can either be something like a cropped tweed jacket or just a school boy blazer.  Kate Spade has some really cute cropped tweed jackets in really fun colors (I want one).  

To go with your jackets should be a good pair of jeans! Jeans these days can be dressed up or down, but do know your event because jeans are still not appropriate everywhere.  I like to buy my jeans from either J.Crew or Nordstrom because I know I am getting a nice pair of jeans that will last me a long time.  Pairing your jeans with a cute blouse in the spring and an adorable sweater, button up or cute scarf and a pair of boots or ballet flats will be totally acceptable in the fall and winter.  Jeans are just a good go to essential when you don't know what to wear that day.

Talking about shoes again, it is important that a woman has a good pair of neutral sandals that you can wear with a lot of outfits.  Either a gold, cork, metallic, nude or even black sandal will do.  Having a neutral sandal will always give a women a perfect shoe to wear with any summer/spring time look.

The last thing that I want to talk about that I truly believe that every woman needs is a string a pearls.  Whether yours are real or fake, every woman needs to have the most classic accessory that she can pair with absolutely everything and that looks beautiful with absolutely everything.

With this blog post, I hope that I helped women understand that it is perfectly normal and okay to have a lot of clothing but within all of that clothing, you do need the 10 essentials that should be in every woman's wardrobe. So, get up and go to your closet and make sure you have these 10 items and if not then, hey, you have a perfect excuse to do a little shopping! ;) haha

Charlotte York: The True Romantic

Most women and especially girls my age are obsessed with the HBO show, Sex and the City.  Almost all girls who watch the show have a character, out of the amazing 4 women who they most relate to.  Every time I watch this TV show with my friends, without a doubt they say that I am Charlotte York and I must say, I'm not arguing.  It's oddly creepy how much my life resembles this made up TV show character, but I love it! Being a girl who loves love and doesn't give up on it even when a million guys are (excuse my language) assholes is one of the many reasons why I relate so much to Charlotte York and why I believe she is the true romantic.

Charlotte York is the more reserved one in the group but she isn't afraid to speak her mind and stand up for what she believes in.  She's beautiful, polished, preppy, smart, an art history major, a hopeless romantic, a dog lover and she falls in love with a man she never envisioned she would meet (in the strangest place) and her life turns out beautifully!

In the series, Sex and the City, Charlotte York is a brunette preppy, Episcopalian girl from Connecticut who went to Smith College.  In college she was a Kappa Kappa Gamma and majored in Art History with a minor in finance. When she moved NYC she worked in an art gallery (which is possibly what I want to do) and had a sweet little apartment.  Throughout her life when she first moved to NYC she dated a bunch of frogs and kissed too many frogs until she thought she met her "Preppy Prince Charming," Trey McDodogle. Charlotte thought she has finally met her perfect match when she met someone who was as preppy as she was (You don't want to date someone who exactly like you because that would be boring) but unfortunately, Trey couldn't quite get it up hahaha and despite their small issue in the bedroom, he also just SUCKED and was a preppy prick!  Life is funny, when you envision someone, God always has a better plan for you and has someone who is better then you ever imagined! So, the two eventually got divorced and Charlotte was able to take everything from the divorce because Trey gave it to her, admitting that for the time they were married, Charlotte was the best wife there ever was and told the lawyers to give her anything she wanted. She acquired their multi-million dollar apartment in Central Park and through this divorce and the changing of her divorce lawyers, she met Harry Goldenblatt, who was a Jew.  Harry Goldenblatt was Charlotte's divorce lawyer and through the process of the divorce he fell in love with her! He told her while she was looking for a new apartment that he had been in love with her since the first time he laid eyes on her and that he was drawn to her.  Because Harry was a Jew and Charlotte was an Episcopalian; Harry was not allowed to marry her.  But Charlotte knew she loved Harry and so she converted to Judaism for him and to two wed after a year or so of dating (You never know when and where you're going to meet the person you're going to be with, which is why life is so exciting).  The couple was happy until they tried to get pregnant and when they finally did, Charlotte had a miscarriage. Since they couldn't get pregnant, Charlotte adopted a King Charles Spaniel, and named the dog, Elizabeth Taylor.  She entered Elizabeth Taylor in multiple dog shows, but eventually, Elizabeth Taylor was gang banged at the doggie park and got pregnant.  Charlotte was sad that her dog could have a baby but she couldn't but after months of trying, they adopted a little girl named Lilly from China and Charlotte knew that Lilly was supposed to be their baby, the moment she laid eyes on the little babies picture.  When Lilly was around the age of 3 Charlotte got pregnant again and this time it lasted; she named the little girl Rose.

That was just a brief history on the character, Charlotte York but the reason I think she's a true romantic is because from the very beginning she knew she wanted to live a "perfect life" and she went for it.  Sure, she dated a lot of losers and kissed one too many frogs before she met the man she was supposed to marry but the point is, she never gave up.  Every time so guy broke her heart or went back to another girl she simple stated and believed that it was happening for a reason because that was not the guy who she was supposed to be with forever.  When she met Harry, she admitted on an episode that she didn't expect to fall in love with Harry, but she did! It's always the unexpected things in life that sometimes turn out to be the greatest. So, I guess my point is, to not give up when life brings you down and to keep believing and trusting God that he has a better plan for your life, better then you have ever imagined.  Charlotte York wanted to find love and she did eventually because she never gave up, even after all of the frogs she had to get through before she met her wonderful Jewish husband. <3