French style in fashion is elegant, timeless, and effortlessly chic. French style is less about chasing trends and more about cultivating a personal, curated wardrobe built around quality essentials. It focuses on clean lines and minimal patterns and is usually centered around 1–2 items. French women favor neutral colors as neutrals are classic and timeless. They favor color palettes with black, white, beige, navy, and gray.
What Is French Minimalist Style?
Minimalist style is a fashion and design philosophy centered on simplicity, functionality, and intentionality. It emphasizes quality over quantity and often uses a neutral color palette and clean silhouettes. When you merge French and Minimalist, you get a classic and timeless style with a focus on simplified designs, creating a “French Minimalist” aesthetic.
If you want to have classic and timeless styles in your wardrobe and dress chic everyday, you need Simplified Style: French Wardrobe Staples! This year-round foundation wardrobe guide will help you makeover your wardrobe! This guide includes convenient online shopping links for all tops, bottoms, layers and shoes, layouts for all seasons of the year, 500+ outfit ideas, outfit calendars so you will always know what to wear and more.
Thousands of women use my capsule wardrobe collections…over 45,000 Capsule Wardrobe collections have been sold!
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SIMPLIFIED STYLE: FRENCH WARDROBE STAPLES expands on this post and INCLUDES:
- Step-by-step guide to creating your capsule wardrobe
- A complete wardrobe plan of ALL Clothes and Shoes with convenient regular-size shopping links (average XS-XL) for each piece (including Accessories)
- Layouts for all seasons of the year
- 500+ outfit ideas
- Printable Checklists
- Travel/Mini Capsule Wardrobe Guide for all seasons
- Ready-To-Use Monthly Outfit Calendars
The French Minimalist Summer Mini Capsule Wardrobe
The tops, bottoms and shoes in this mini capsule are included in Simplified Style: French Wardrobe Staples. In the year-round guide, there are 2 shopping links for each piece in the capsule.
The Tops:
striped tee
black tank
white shirt: silk or tencel
The Bottoms:
denim shorts
black shorts
white pants (linen-blend)
The Shoes:
black strap sandals / budget option
brown slide sandals / also love these! I have both of these sandals myself and LOVE them!
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What Is a Capsule Wardrobe?
How To Start A Capsule Wardrobe: A 5-Step Visual Guide
How To Create a Core Closet
How to Build A Travel Capsule Wardrobe
The Outfits
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Outfit #9
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A Bit Of Inspiration For Your Day:
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” – John 1:14
I’m so excited, I have all these pieces in my wardrobe, thanks to you!!! I love the different combos! Thanks for always keep us looking Classy and Trendy! 🥰
Thanks Leanne, Love all these looks and I have these pieces all ready in my wardrobe just needed the inspiration!
How did I miss this one!!! I have nearly all the pieces! I do have to sub navy for black, but I love these looks! 😍
Leanne, I’m having a hard time finding a denim short this year that’s not baggy at the leg. Ugh, this must be the style right now. 🙈 I’m curvy (petite hourglass) but have thin thighs and these baggy/wide looks aren’t working for me, unfortunately. Amy recommendations?
Thank YOU for the inspo!!!
Amy,
I have a pair of Levi’s denim shorts similar to these. They come in medium wash and dark wash: https://rstyle.me/+ziOCy7jkFIW3ZqfZPY1mWA
Bless you, Leanne and thank you for the link!!! 💞 I’m also an…ahem…older woman and it’s so hard to find cute, yet modest shorts. 🫣 These look like a good length as well as these: https://www.levi.com/US/en_US/clothing/women/shorts/501-original-fit-high-rise-mid-thigh-womens-shorts/p/858330082
Thank YOU again for the recommendation! 🤗🥰