7 Styles Every Capsule Wardrobe Needs
No two women’s shirts are born the same. There are those classic shirts in white cotton that you know will work with everything, those in bulk-free fabrics and cuts that flatter in every outfit combination, denim luxury shirts are year-round stalwarts that make regular appearances in your Monday-Sunday rotation, doubling as a lightweight jacket in warmer months and others respin familiar silhouettes and are completely different to anything else you’ve owned before.
Here, we take a closer look at our seven key shirts and why each one deserves a place in any capsule wardrobe worth its weight in gold.
THE BORROWED-FROM-THE-BOYS SHIRT
Dubbed the “ultimate transeasonal staple” by British Vogue, women’s striped shirts are a wardrobe essential that proves its worth time and time again throughout the year - even more so when said print is combined with lightweight cotton (hello soaring summer temperatures) and shaped to an oversized fit (a.k.a. A godsend for layering regardless of the season or temperature - style it under sleeveless knits now and wear it open in the sunshine or over swimwear on the beach). Women’s fashion and menswear-inspired pieces is a love affair that spans decades and this preference for a more relaxed fit is here to stay making our Cotton Stripe Oversized Shirt a failsafe win when it comes to curating your capsule wardrobe.
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THE CROPPED SHIRT
Keeping proportions in mind when it comes to building outfits around high-rise jeans or trousers and high-waisted skirts, cropped shirts are a newer addition to our sartorial lexicon but now we’ve discovered how versatile they are we’re wondering how we ever coped without them. They were, until a couple of seasons ago, synonymous with midriff-baring outfitting, but ours engineered to the perfect length (neither too short nor too long) fall to meet the waistband of your skirt or trousers. Leave our Cotton Bib Detail Crop Shirt open over a cami and team with our Silk Cotton Ginko Leaf Print Skirt + Belt to highlight the ingenuity of the cut that skims your hips.
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THE REINVENTED ICON
A cowboy’s uniform from the 1800s that is now a work-to-weekend stalwart. Yes, we’re talking about the denim shirt and our iteration goes a step further in introducing it to every aspect of your 21st century wardrobe. Granting what was a solely masculine staple with a soft femininity, our Denim Frill Shirt crafted from pure cotton in a blue wash is outlined with ruffled trims through the placket pressed with neat pleats to create a more polished finish. Go double denim and pair with our cargo in the fabric or build a high-low look with tailoring and leather trousers.
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THE DIPPED HEM SHIRT
A perfect union of an oversized striped shirt and a cropped one granted one more intelligent design detail to create a universally flattering finish, this Cotton Stripe Dipped Hem Crop Shirt, features a dipped hem that falls lower at the back to provide coverage while retaining a shorter length at the front. Worn untucked, this drop-hem shirt falls in an even drape while ensuring a bulk-free finish when tucked in. In white cotton, our Crease-Free Dipped Hem Crop Shirt is a contemporary-classic choice and is an easy AM-PM partner thanks to its fabric designed to retain a polished finish from day to dusk.
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THE LAYERING ESSENTIAL
Featherweight and semi-sheer, our Silk Cotton Stripe Shirt heroes a lightweight and breathable blend of silk and cotton covered in a subtle stripe. It seamlessly slots in over camis and strap tops as well as under tailored blazers and jackets, acting as an effortless middle layer to your choice of looks when the temperatures are a little chillier.
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THE WORKS-WITH-EVERYTHING SHIRT
The failsafe solution to outfit-building with everything from tailored suiting to off-duty staples. In lightweight cotton, our Forever Shirt is an easy year-round solution that complements cold-weather layering and summer styling sported over swimwear or worn open as an alternative to a jacket with a cami or T-shirt. In a chambray blue hue that works with both pale colours and dark neutrals and a fitted shape that complements tucked-in, half-tucked and untucked styling.
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THE DISRUPTER
Does what it says on the tin - almost - our Cotton Colour Block Oversized Shirt (dubbed in-house as “The Disrupter”) disrupts coordinated suiting, introduces a clean finish to more muted, earthy tones, and introduces a polished finish to denim. In varying shades of blue and shaped to an oversized fit emphasised by its dropped shoulders, it works as a statement standalone piece when buttoned to the top and creates an easy, relaxed aesthetic half tucked into trousers or worn loose.
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