It’s been 6 months since I last bought clothes and while I’m able to ride out the summer, it will be time for a wardrobe reboot this autumn.

As always with these kinds of things, I will spend an impressive amount of time overthinking everything.

Requirements

These are my initial requirements:

1. Capsule wardrobe with everything I need, nothing more, nothing less
2. Every single item must get frequent wear (or address a special, recurring need, such as swimming shorts)
3. Enough items to do laundry every 14 days
4. Equipped for all 4 seasons in London
5. Low-effort, where everything can be combined without thinking
6. Relaxed-casual-as-default, with a minimum quantity of slightly smarter pieces as required
7. A bit more variation in terms of colours (my current wardrobe is very black), without going crazy

Draft numbers

After some initial thinking, I think the required numbers look a bit as follows.

Having to rely on public transport rather than walking does have a visible impact on my budget, but not as much as I worried in terms of my daily step count.

With it being Pride Month and all, I’ve been playing around a little bit with CSS to create a rainbow hover state for my site logo.

Here’s a static version of the active state, for those on mobile:

And here is the dynamic version in all its glory:

I quite like the effect 🙂

Oh, and here is a rainbow flag that was left over from the process:

As much as I like this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, my favourite is still Smiljan Radić’s one from 2014.

I quite like this year’s pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery.

As a little evening project yesterday, I created a set of signal flags as icons, using CSS and SVG.

Here’s a little hand-cranked tool for counting the number of characters of a text. I’ve created it for when posting microblog posts here on the blog, as those can only be 240 characters long.