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