32: The French Capsule Wardrobe: the 14 essentials
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Let's escape to France for a moment, at least for the duration of today's episode. :)
Today's episode is a re-airing of one of, if not the top downloaded, read and listened to episodes if including YouTube and Pinterest. More new readers learn of TSLL blog and the podcast through this episode than any other source. And since the next new episode of The Simple Sophisticate is scheduled to air on Monday May 20th, I wanted to bring it to readers and listeners attention.
Originally airing during the first season (currently we are in season 5), epissode #32 - The French Capsule Wardrobe: the 14 Essentials, has a plethora of images paired with each essential to offer sartorial inspiration.
So without further ado, click here to read the full show notes of episode #32.
~Love TSLL's French-Inspired podcast episodes? Check out the currently 34 French-Inspired episodes in one spot.
~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #32 (top archived episode), replayed. The original episode aired on April 6, 2015 - view the detailed show notes of this episode here
~Subscribe to The Simple Sophisticate: iTunes | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | YouTube | Spotify
~TSLL's first annual British Week is coming! Mark your calendars for an entire week of posts, episodes and giveaways all inspired by the great country of Britain: Sunday May 19th through Sunday May 26th.
A New Blog Post! Motivational Mondays (any Monday when there is not a new episode of the podcast, there will always be a new blog post to kick off your week). Today's post: The Power of the Little Details in Our Lives
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the simple sophisticated and |
| 0:45.8 | welcome to spring. We are officially in spring or officially in fall if |
| 0:50.3 | you're in the southern hemisphere, a brand new season. |
| 0:52.8 | And today's episode is a favorite, |
| 0:56.0 | from Pinterest, from YouTube, from the podcast archive |
| 0:59.9 | that I wanted to bring to you. |
| 1:02.2 | It's going to incorporate the French Classic |
| 1:05.3 | Wardrobe and it's also going to incorporate savvy shopping for that capsule |
| 1:10.1 | wardrobe. There's a reason why people keep visiting and downloading this episode. |
| 1:16.0 | It is full of simple ideas to create an effortless style that emulates in so many ways the |
| 1:21.8 | classic French aesthetic, but at the same time you add your signature |
| 1:25.8 | touch to it. So I'm going to be sharing with you episode 32 which was released during the first season of the simple |
| 1:33.2 | Sophisticate. Now there are many sittorial inspirations that can come from |
| 1:37.3 | traveling in France or from the French culture or specifically the Parisian |
| 1:41.9 | culture. |
| 1:43.4 | But one thing that so many people say when they visit, and I have to attest to this in my experience |
| 1:48.4 | as well, is that it appears to be simple. |
| 1:52.1 | It appears to be something that is not super |
| 1:56.7 | strenuous or stressful and the key is understanding ourselves and what works best |
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