Hi Lia! I appreciate that your wardrobe includes four seasons. I live in Montana, where it is pretty chilly even on summer mornings, so I have to have all my clothes out all the time. Some minimalists I've seen have a "capsule summer or winter wardrobe", but those don't really apply to me. So thank you for showing me something I actually relate to!
You could embroider a design over the hole in the sweater. Perhaps a flower, ladybug or snowflake. Haha I always bought my kids bright coats so I could pick them out quickly! My son wore orange for years so I could always easily keep an eye on him.
You have done an amazing job with the newly knitted sweater! And I am so happy to see you in the yellow blouse... Thank you for sharing... I cannot stop being happy with the colors of your capsule wardrobe
Hi Lia :) the old sweater with discoloration which you debate on declutering, you can 1. Dye it darker 2. Cut the end where it peels off and sew on a little hem 3. At the end of it's "clothes life", tear it appart, keep some fabric to repare other clothes that can tear appart or so 4. Tear it and use it to swipe the floor, dust the house, clean the windows... so the fabric will have a much longer life! Hope this helps, wish you the best
@@viktorijamarozaite1408 ahaha thank you! i am absolutely not a "zero waster", (i wish but i'm young and live w/ my mother who doesnt give a shit about the climate) so i just myself learned to sew so that i would'nt waste my clothes. I've had a jean that completely teared up in the inner thighs whithin the fabric itself, so I cut them to make shorts, and with the remaining good fabric of the legs made patches and new butt pockets on my other jeans so that they would be sturdier! I just love it because sewing needs concetration, it's like meditation
Thank you! Yes, I love that oversized but very intentional construction too! I looked at many different patterns and picked that one because of the fit ☺
Lia, I so love that new happy, yellow jumper and think it suits you very well. I sometimes also wear something yellow, even if it doesn't go well with either my skin or eye or hair colour, but it just makes me soo happy!
The alpaca sweater that you knitted looks beautiful! I think it’s great that you try to get much wear out of your clothes. I’ve got a nightgown that feels so nice, but after 10 years it’s sadly falling apart beyond repair and I’m not ready to let it go.
You've done an amazing job selecting colors that are flattering with your skin tones, eye and hair colors. That is what will make a wardrobe of any size last a long time...always flattering your natural features.
if you or someone you has a pet, then you can make old sweat shirts into cat/small dog beds. just a suggestion since they dont get washed as much as sweatshirts. also handwashing helps with microfibres
Great wardrobe! And the colors are lovely on you. I mostly inherit clothes from my daughter and some fit and some doesn’t. She’s taller than I am, but funny enough, her jeans fit me very well. I use a smaller backpack and just like you, a small purse when I know I’m not going to shop anything. Thanks for sharing!👍🌼🦋💛
Haha, thank you! I think for a traditional model I am way too short but I would take the opportunity if a sustainable brand reached out and asked me to model a new collection ☺
You look wonderful in the orange sweater! Great job on making the alpaca sweater, it looks beautiful! The shirt you made from your old linen pants turned out very stylish. I've really enjoyed seeing your wardrobe with the new additions! The hues that you have look great!
Love your new alpaca sweater! I have a “thing” for sweaters too. I just love the fall and winter and wear a cosy sweater to keep warm. Also like the yellow sweater on you! I live in the Netherlands so 4 seasons just like you, and I wear almost all of my clothes yearround. Also been wearing barefoot shoes for 10 years now. Maybe not the most prettiest but who wants to wear shoes that hurt? I just don’t get that...
I think the green shoe laces do actually look pretty cool and contrast nice with your other clothes! What are you wearing most now in this cold german late summer?
Thank you for this inspiring video! I like your channel so much! I also live in Berlin but I don't know if I would be able to have such a minimalist wardrobe because I'm always very cold, so I need many more layers ;( I think I will do an experiment this winter because I somet9feel overwhelmed by the amount of clothes I have (which is already minimal but I would love to simplify more now that I have a baby). I wish you a great day!
Oh also another idea for the polyester sweatshirt you can cut the arms off to short sleeve or sleeveless and cut the bottom hem off too so its a hemless comfortable shirt
@@briggle4982 Oh yea..that would look great together! I used to redye all of my black clothing maybe once a year when I was younger and wore primarily black. The clothes themselves were in great condition but faded from the wash and all of the time that I spent outside. It makes more sense to just refresh the color since the items are already ones that you love and that work for you. Plus it is eco friendly!
I love my cashmere but they can get holes in them so easily and look tired and not great. I came across a video on TH-cam a while back now using fuse it powder end the material you collect when shaving off the fabric with one of the fabric shavers or combs. It’s a life saver! I have fixed so many jumpers in the last few years 👌☺️
Just found this video, and the «singlet» is not underwear! It is the Norwegian Word for a tank top, might also be used in Sweden and Denmark, idk. Very fun to see such a minimal wardrobe to fit 4 seasons, currently working on minimizing my wardrobe 😊
It will definitely be a switch but I desperately need a change. My family and I just cant do big city life anymore. I find it way to consumerist, stressful "loud" and expensive.
Hello, Lia, I always watch your vídeos but never commented. First of all, thanks for sharing your minimalist journey, it is very inspiring. Second I wanted to comment that one other way to elongate your clothes life is by dyeing them. I have done it some time. You can do it yourself at home. The problem is that usually you can only do it to a darker shade. Again, thank you for sharing your journey. I enjoy It very much.
Thanks for your comment! I am happy you like my videos! That is a good idea, I have done that as a kid and with plants about a year ago. Usually, I don't want really dark clothes but it is definitely a good idea to have in mind because it can prolong the life of something for several years ☺
I also want to thank you for sharing that as a kid you went through chemotherapy. My child survided a brain tumor diagnosed the year 2019 thanks to chemo and radiotherapy, and it is comforting to know adults who underwent this process and are healthy and thriving just like you. He's feeling good and leading a normal life, and hope he becomes as healthy adult as you.
Freue mich noch immer, dass dir die Schuhe gefallen und sie jetzt auch getragen werden. Mein Problem war übrigens die Schnürung, die so weit nach vorn geht, das saß an meinem Fuß nicht gut, leider. Ich finde sie auch noch immer sehr toll! Trage meine anderen Paare weiterhin regelmäßig. So haltbar!
Hi Lia! I love the colors that you also live in your wardrobe (earthy oranges and lighter “creamy-wheats”:)). I was also wondering, what brand are the barefoot shoes that you purchased from a subscriber, and also, are they vegan? I just got into barefoot shoes, and I still only have 1 pair of sneaker/light hiking shoes and 1 pair of sandals, and would love to expand my shoe wardrobe with a pair like the ones you showed:)
Your knitting skills are incredible. I'm wondering what you do with your clothes that you declutter? Like the adidas swim suit that you used to have or the sweatpants that had zippers? I'm always wondering what to do clothes that are ruined (mostly my kids clothes) or other items that should basically go in the trash. Great videos, that you for sharing!
Hi, a new subscriber here! you should consider dyeing the pieces of clothing you don’t like the color of. Like the brown sweater and the yellow one. That way you can bring them back to life! :D Greatings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Thank you for sharing. I am personally a fan of a year round capsule! I am wondering, what do you wear for a special occasion? For example if you had to dress formal for a wedding.
I don't have anything super formal but I also haven't had an event like that in the last five years. And because I never owned something I felt great in, I decluttered the dresses I had. If an occasion would come up I would look for something that I could wear in my everyday life too, or if the event was really formal I would maybe rent, borrow or buy something secondhand to later return it if there isn't another occasion like that in the next year or so. But If I had something formal I like wearing I would maybe keep it for these events even if it means not wearing it often ☺
Great job on the knitted sweater. love the yellow sweat shirt you are wearing that you brought home from Swiss. Do you have family? You’ve not shared about them much.
For the hoodie, I'd say declutter it now. If it's polyester and already degrading, washing it will add microplastics into the wastewater whereas it will be burned if you throw it away and it will not add microplastics into the environment. But I know the struggle, I also have one worn but still wearable synthetic sweater that I already should have decluttered ^^"
Three drawers belong to me, in them, I store my clothes, my backpacks, and everything else. Six of the drawers have my boyfriend's stuff in them and three household things (bedding, medicine, decluttered things) and that's all twelve of them ☺
The dresser that contains my clothes also contains the rest of my things. I have one drawer with my luggage (a backpack/bag system ) and the third drawer contains the rest (documents, camera gear, handcrafting things, and sentimental items). The other dresser is my boyfriends or household things like towels ans bed sheets ☺️
Moths like cashmere so maybe that's the little holes... I do embroidery over little holes in clothes I don't want to stop wearing...just a little flower or heart or made up animal...
You look so feminine in this video, although I could not tell what seems to be different to save my life. Of course, I have no idea if it is important to you nor I think it should be I guess, lol. It was intended as a compliment, anyways. By the way, the yellow sweater looks wonderful on you. But I always was a bright colour lover, so I might be not too objective.f
6:55 on the holes you can sew a few buttons and make a bead-like pattern on the sleeves or however you want. be creative. one can look really chic with few ideas and a ton of work.
dude, with the price of a meal you can buy a nice new knitted dress. there really is no need to self flagellate when there are really good clothes abandoned in the land fields. there's also jewelry second hand, with which one outfit like that can be significantly improved and get a bohemian hippie vibe.
i saw you with long hair, you should grow your hair to at least be able to make a bob, you can also thrift more feminine dresses and stuff, it won't hurt. minimalism should have to do with how little we harvest the nature, not with how extremely simple our wardrobe is, i think?
Hi Lia! I appreciate that your wardrobe includes four seasons. I live in Montana, where it is pretty chilly even on summer mornings, so I have to have all my clothes out all the time. Some minimalists I've seen have a "capsule summer or winter wardrobe", but those don't really apply to me. So thank you for showing me something I actually relate to!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it! Yes, I see it similarly, I need almost all the pieces all year round so I love having everything in one place ☺
You could embroider a design over the hole in the sweater. Perhaps a flower, ladybug or snowflake.
Haha I always bought my kids bright coats so I could pick them out quickly! My son wore orange for years so I could always easily keep an eye on him.
You have done an amazing job with the newly knitted sweater! And I am so happy to see you in the yellow blouse... Thank you for sharing... I cannot stop being happy with the colors of your capsule wardrobe
Thank you! I loved the knitting process! I am glad you like the colors and I am of course also very happy about them ☺
Hi Lia :) the old sweater with discoloration which you debate on declutering, you can
1. Dye it darker
2. Cut the end where it peels off and sew on a little hem
3. At the end of it's "clothes life", tear it appart, keep some fabric to repare other clothes that can tear appart or so
4. Tear it and use it to swipe the floor, dust the house, clean the windows... so the fabric will have a much longer life!
Hope this helps, wish you the best
Wow, you sound like a zero waste guru :D so creative!
@@viktorijamarozaite1408 ahaha thank you! i am absolutely not a "zero waster", (i wish but i'm young and live w/ my mother who doesnt give a shit about the climate) so i just myself learned to sew so that i would'nt waste my clothes. I've had a jean that completely teared up in the inner thighs whithin the fabric itself, so I cut them to make shorts, and with the remaining good fabric of the legs made patches and new butt pockets on my other jeans so that they would be sturdier! I just love it because sewing needs concetration, it's like meditation
I really like the cut of the jumper you just knitted. Very impressed.
Thank you! Yes, I love that oversized but very intentional construction too! I looked at many different patterns and picked that one because of the fit ☺
Lia, I so love that new happy, yellow jumper and think it suits you very well. I sometimes also wear something yellow, even if it doesn't go well with either my skin or eye or hair colour, but it just makes me soo happy!
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I admire your commitment to use and reuse items to last as long as possible.
Thank you! Yes, I think it is a very important part of sustainability! But often not the most glamorous or exciting one ☺
Yellow looks great on you 😊 I love your videos, I am a beginner minimalist, you inspire me 💛
The alpaca sweater that you knitted looks beautiful! I think it’s great that you try to get much wear out of your clothes. I’ve got a nightgown that feels so nice, but after 10 years it’s sadly falling apart beyond repair and I’m not ready to let it go.
You've done an amazing job selecting colors that are flattering with your skin tones, eye and hair colors. That is what will make a wardrobe of any size last a long time...always flattering your natural features.
The new sweater is beautiful! Great job!
Thank you! I really love it too ☺ and it was especially great to be able to make small adjustments to the pattern to make it fit perfectly ☺
if you or someone you has a pet, then you can make old sweat shirts into cat/small dog beds. just a suggestion since they dont get washed as much as sweatshirts. also handwashing helps with microfibres
Great wardrobe! And the colors are lovely on you. I mostly inherit clothes from my daughter and some fit and some doesn’t. She’s taller than I am, but funny enough, her jeans fit me very well. I use a smaller backpack and just like you, a small purse when I know I’m not going to shop anything. Thanks for sharing!👍🌼🦋💛
Simplicity is beautiful I have lots of decluttering to do
I love everything about your new alpaca sweater! It looks great with your newish pants! I've followed your channel for a while, love your videos😊
I enjoyed this video so much,I also I think that you should do modelling of clothes,every thing looked so good on you.You also pose very well.
Haha, thank you! I think for a traditional model I am way too short but I would take the opportunity if a sustainable brand reached out and asked me to model a new collection ☺
You look wonderful in the orange sweater! Great job on making the alpaca sweater, it looks beautiful! The shirt you made from your old linen pants turned out very stylish.
I've really enjoyed seeing your wardrobe with the new additions! The hues that you have look great!
Check out some visible mending techniques for the sweater with the small holes! It can look really cool!!
You’re so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for creating and sharing ♥️
Love your new alpaca sweater! I have a “thing” for sweaters too. I just love the fall and winter and wear a cosy sweater to keep warm. Also like the yellow sweater on you!
I live in the Netherlands so 4 seasons just like you, and I wear almost all of my clothes yearround. Also been wearing barefoot shoes for 10 years now. Maybe not the most prettiest but who wants to wear shoes that hurt? I just don’t get that...
Love the yellow on you! Such a happy colour:)
I think the green shoe laces do actually look pretty cool and contrast nice with your other clothes! What are you wearing most now in this cold german late summer?
The yellow sweater looks gorgeous on you!keep it!😘
Thank you for this inspiring video! I like your channel so much!
I also live in Berlin but I don't know if I would be able to have such a minimalist wardrobe because I'm always very cold, so I need many more layers ;(
I think I will do an experiment this winter because I somet9feel overwhelmed by the amount of clothes I have (which is already minimal but I would love to simplify more now that I have a baby).
I wish you a great day!
you could also make a vest out of the hoodie since its the sleeves that bother you
Oh also another idea for the polyester sweatshirt you can cut the arms off to short sleeve or sleeveless and cut the bottom hem off too so its a hemless comfortable shirt
I'd say your wardrobe is exactly the right amount...for you! 😊❤️👍
Great video! I bet that you could easily redye the sweatpants that you found alongside the road so that they are solid black again!
Thank you! Yes, that is true! Thank you for the suggestion! ☺
Exactly what I was thinking. And the cropped hoodie. Also they would be a great colour match then too.
@@briggle4982 Oh yea..that would look great together! I used to redye all of my black clothing maybe once a year when I was younger and wore primarily black. The clothes themselves were in great condition but faded from the wash and all of the time that I spent outside. It makes more sense to just refresh the color since the items are already ones that you love and that work for you. Plus it is eco friendly!
Love the color pink and the yellow on you!!!!!!
I loved this vid!👍
I love the yellow top! It's a great color on you.
Der gelbe Pullover steht dir fantastisch!
I love my cashmere but they can get holes in them so easily and look tired and not great. I came across a video on TH-cam a while back now using fuse it powder end the material you collect when shaving off the fabric with one of the fabric shavers or combs. It’s a life saver! I have fixed so many jumpers in the last few years 👌☺️
Just found this video, and the «singlet» is not underwear! It is the Norwegian Word for a tank top, might also be used in Sweden and Denmark, idk. Very fun to see such a minimal wardrobe to fit 4 seasons, currently working on minimizing my wardrobe 😊
Love the alpaca sweater you knit! It looks great on you.
The bright yellow sweater looks really good on you! I don't care for bright colors much either, but you look really beautiful in that color.
Oh thank you! I think I like it too :)
When I have very old clothes that are really not good to wear anymore I cut them in small pieces and use for cleaning the house😉
And I really appreciate your sustainable approach on clothing ☺️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Never been first before 🙂 Good video I needed this as I will soon need a 4 season capsule. Moving up by the Canadian border in October.
Thank you! Oh, that sounds exciting! ☺
It will definitely be a switch but I desperately need a change. My family and I just cant do big city life anymore. I find it way to consumerist, stressful "loud" and expensive.
Love 😻 that sun hat. You look like a lovely little flower 🌻 So sweet.
Hello, Lia, I always watch your vídeos but never commented. First of all, thanks for sharing your minimalist journey, it is very inspiring.
Second I wanted to comment that one other way to elongate your clothes life is by dyeing them. I have done it some time. You can do it yourself at home. The problem is that usually you can only do it to a darker shade.
Again, thank you for sharing your journey. I enjoy It very much.
Thanks for your comment! I am happy you like my videos! That is a good idea, I have done that as a kid and with plants about a year ago. Usually, I don't want really dark clothes but it is definitely a good idea to have in mind because it can prolong the life of something for several years ☺
@@ecofriendlia yeah, it's the bad side of dyeing.
I also want to thank you for sharing that as a kid you went through chemotherapy. My child survided a brain tumor diagnosed the year 2019 thanks to chemo and radiotherapy, and it is comforting to know adults who underwent this process and are healthy and thriving just like you. He's feeling good and leading a normal life, and hope he becomes as healthy adult as you.
Freue mich noch immer, dass dir die Schuhe gefallen und sie jetzt auch getragen werden. Mein Problem war übrigens die Schnürung, die so weit nach vorn geht, das saß an meinem Fuß nicht gut, leider. Ich finde sie auch noch immer sehr toll! Trage meine anderen Paare weiterhin regelmäßig. So haltbar!
I say this every time, but I love those shoe laces!! 👍💚
Hi Lia! I love the colors that you also live in your wardrobe (earthy oranges and lighter “creamy-wheats”:)). I was also wondering, what brand are the barefoot shoes that you purchased from a subscriber, and also, are they vegan? I just got into barefoot shoes, and I still only have 1 pair of sneaker/light hiking shoes and 1 pair of sandals, and would love to expand my shoe wardrobe with a pair like the ones you showed:)
Your knitting skills are incredible. I'm wondering what you do with your clothes that you declutter? Like the adidas swim suit that you used to have or the sweatpants that had zippers? I'm always wondering what to do clothes that are ruined (mostly my kids clothes) or other items that should basically go in the trash. Great videos, that you for sharing!
Hi, a new subscriber here! you should consider dyeing the pieces of clothing you don’t like the color of. Like the brown sweater and the yellow one. That way you can bring them back to life! :D Greatings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Thank you for sharing. I am personally a fan of a year round capsule! I am wondering, what do you wear for a special occasion? For example if you had to dress formal for a wedding.
I don't have anything super formal but I also haven't had an event like that in the last five years. And because I never owned something I felt great in, I decluttered the dresses I had. If an occasion would come up I would look for something that I could wear in my everyday life too, or if the event was really formal I would maybe rent, borrow or buy something secondhand to later return it if there isn't another occasion like that in the next year or so. But If I had something formal I like wearing I would maybe keep it for these events even if it means not wearing it often ☺
@@ecofriendlia Thanks! That makes sense!
Great job on the knitted sweater. love the yellow sweat shirt you are wearing that you brought home from Swiss. Do you have family? You’ve not shared about them much.
Hi, Lia! I wish I can learn how to knit. 😁 I hope you can start selling sweaters 😍. I'm ready to buy from you.☺ love your 4 seasons wardrobe. 💜
Love your videos! Is your laundry routine still the same?
For the hoodie, I'd say declutter it now. If it's polyester and already degrading, washing it will add microplastics into the wastewater whereas it will be burned if you throw it away and it will not add microplastics into the environment. But I know the struggle, I also have one worn but still wearable synthetic sweater that I already should have decluttered ^^"
I love your sunhat it's so cute
You look lovely in yellow!
WOW, that dresser is huge. What all do you have in it?
Three drawers belong to me, in them, I store my clothes, my backpacks, and everything else. Six of the drawers have my boyfriend's stuff in them and three household things (bedding, medicine, decluttered things) and that's all twelve of them ☺
@@ecofriendlia thanks for the information.
You look great in yellow :)
Why wouldn't you stitch the holes closed? Or patch them? That would allow the sweater to be worn even longer.
Hi lia, could you share the knitting pattern, please?
Can you do a video showing how you cut your hair?
I have a video about the initial head shave and in the video "a workday in my life" I also show how I cut my hair when it's short ☺
How frequently do you do laundry?
About once a week, sometimes after 5 days, and also about one load of bedding and household laundry a week (we are three people) ☺
What do you have in the rest of the drawers?
The dresser that contains my clothes also contains the rest of my things. I have one drawer with my luggage (a backpack/bag system ) and the third drawer contains the rest (documents, camera gear, handcrafting things, and sentimental items). The other dresser is my boyfriends or household things like towels ans bed sheets ☺️
Oh ok just curious! :) thanks for the reply!
Done clothes are great for pets beds If reshaped.Maybe not yours, maybe a friends.
Moths like cashmere so maybe that's the little holes... I do embroidery over little holes in clothes I don't want to stop wearing...just a little flower or heart or made up animal...
what you wear to the party?
Trans guys rule!
You look so feminine in this video, although I could not tell what seems to be different to save my life. Of course, I have no idea if it is important to you nor I think it should be I guess, lol. It was intended as a compliment, anyways.
By the way, the yellow sweater looks wonderful on you. But I always was a bright colour lover, so I might be not too objective.f
Could we maybe put the disclaimer in a few minutes later? You lost my interest at the beginning
6:55 on the holes you can sew a few buttons and make a bead-like pattern on the sleeves or however you want. be creative. one can look really chic with few ideas and a ton of work.
6:29 on that sweater you can put a belt, i'm sure you can find one second hand. i don't like baggy sweaters and i wear them with belts.
10:32 i like those pants. i wear the same things when i am at home
7:28 that's really nice.
dude, with the price of a meal you can buy a nice new knitted dress. there really is no need to self flagellate when there are really good clothes abandoned in the land fields. there's also jewelry second hand, with which one outfit like that can be significantly improved and get a bohemian hippie vibe.
dude, dye those gloves and then nourish them with hands cream, they will look good and they won't fall apart.
you have a really beautiful body. congrats. anything looks good on you.
i saw you with long hair, you should grow your hair to at least be able to make a bob, you can also thrift more feminine dresses and stuff, it won't hurt. minimalism should have to do with how little we harvest the nature, not with how extremely simple our wardrobe is, i think?
Shut up transphobe
Nbies matter!!