The Evergreen Method

A simple way to build a wardrobe that fits your colors, your body, and your life.

The Evergreen Method blends color analysis, body balance, and lifestyle design into one clear process. It helps you understand what works for you — so getting dressed feels natural every day.

Seed

Your foundation. Shape, coloring, face essence. The details that make clothes feel made for you.

Soil

Where your style lives. Your lifestyle, climate, comfort rules. Practical + pretty, day after day.

Sunlight

Your self-expression. Values, personality, style spark. The part that makes outfits feel like you.

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The Seed = Your Natural Beauty

It includes your natural coloring, body shape, and facial lines, the elements that stay constant even as your style or lifestyle changes.

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Coloring = Soft + Cool

My main color palette comes from the natural tones in my skin, eyes, and hair. I extended it with colors in shades that match my color season.

  • Soft, muted tones

  • Cool to neutral

  • Medium contrast

Outline of a dress form or mannequin

Body Shape = Curvy + Balanced

Curvy with a defined waist and balanced proportions. My frame is midsize with petite height and soft curves throughout.

  • Hourglass silhouette

  • Defined waist and balanced shape

  • Midsize and slightly petite

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Face = Ingenue + Classic + Romantic

My facial features are smooth and rounded with natural balance. The lines of my face are youthful and feminine, creating an overall soft visual impression.

  • Rounded face shape

  • Even, balanced proportions

  • Soft, curved facial lines

The Soil = Your Lifestyle

Lifestyle Needs

I map out a typical 28-day period to see how my time is divided. This helps me build my wardrobe in the same proportions as my life.

For me:

  • Work: 35%

  • Rest / Everyday: 35%

  • Athletic / Movement: 15%

  • Elevated / Social: 10%

  • Play / Creative: 5%

These numbers guide how much space each capsule gets in my closet and help me avoid over-buying for things I rarely do.

Care & Fabric Preferences

My wardrobe stays simple and low-maintenance. I choose fabrics that feel soft, breathe well, and can handle frequent washing.

  • No dry cleaning

  • Cotton and soft knits mostly

  • Occasional linen or canvas for texture

  • Dressier fabrics kept minimal

  • Movement-friendly and stain-resistant items

  • Practicality & Style are equally important to me

These preferences keep my wardrobe realistic and easy to maintain.

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The Sunlight = Your Personality

Six rectangular labels with rounded edges, each with handwritten words and simple illustrations: "gurdy" with a flower, "simple" with a leaf, "approachable" with a smiley face, "comfy" with a cloud, "flirty" with a heart.

Style Words

These words describe the overall feel of my wardrobe and keep my choices consistent.

  • Girly

  • Simple

  • Approachable

  • Comfy

  • Flirty

A basket with a green cloth, an open book, a pink ribbon, a pink rose, a small perfume bottle, a heart-shaped necklace, a cup of coffee or tea on a saucer, and ballet slippers on a light-colored surface.
Pink and white spa and beauty items including a headband, lotion, soap, lip balm, a scrunchie, a flower, a rolled towel, and a white cardigan.
A pastel-colored illustration featuring a green spellbook with a ribbon, a butterfly, mushrooms, a teacup with flowers, a small bottle, a key, and various flowers.

Aesthetic Influences

These are the visual worlds that inspire my wardrobe. I use them for color, texture, and mood.

  • Coquette

  • Balletcore

  • Cottagecore

  • Pilates Princess

  • Fairycore

  • Clean Girl

The Shears = Your Non-Negotiables

The Shears represent boundaries.

They define what doesn’t belong in my wardrobe. These are the fabrics, fits, and details that never feel right, no matter the season. Knowing what to skip keeps my wardrobe clear, cohesive, and easy to build on.

My Wardrobe Boundaries

  1. No collars

  2. No blazers

  3. No satin

  4. No pleats

  5. No maxi-length hems

  6. No pure black

  7. No large patterns

  8. No bright colors like yellow or orange

  9. No strapless or fussy bras

A Modular Wardrobe

Each capsule connects back to your Soil, the lifestyle that shapes what you actually wear.

It starts with a Core Capsule

  • Everyday staples that work all year

  • Simple, comfy pieces for errands and casual plans

Then it branches into Lifestyle Capsules

  • Professional for offices and video calls

  • Athletic for movement and activity

  • Rest for lounging and sleep

  • Elevated for evenings and events

  • Play for creative projects or parenting

And it keeps growing through Add-Ons

  • Seasonal color shifts

  • Holiday and event pieces

  • Travel edits that mix and match

Each capsule builds on the last, creating one wardrobe that feels complete without ever feeling crowded.

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How I Build My Wardrobe

The full process I follow to plan, edit, and grow my modular closet.

1. Determine General Coloring

Start with your overall color direction. Look at your natural features in daylight and note whether you lean warm or cool, light or dark, and soft or bright. This gives you a starting point before refining your palette.

2. Determine Specific Colors

Find your ten signature tones based on your natural coloring. Each color connects to a feature on your face or body, like the tones in your skin, lips, eyes, or hair. Together they form your personal palette and create harmony in everything you wear.

3. Determine Body Shape

Observe your proportions and structure. For each body area such as shoulders, waist, hips, and limbs, note whether it is round or straight, short or long, wide or narrow. This helps you recognize shapes that create visual balance.

4. Determine Facial Shape

Your face gives clues about the energy of your style. Look at each feature such as forehead, eyes, cheeks, lips, chin, and jawline, and note whether it is round or sculpted, small or large. These details influence prints, jewelry, necklines, and textures that feel most natural on you.

5. Determine Lifestyle

Build a wardrobe that fits how you actually live. Estimate the percentage of time you spend on work, exercise, rest, errands, creative projects, and other activities in a typical month. Your wardrobe should serve your real rhythm.

6. Determine Care and Fabric Preferences

Notice your comfort and care habits. What fabrics feel best on your skin? How much laundry effort do you enjoy? These small preferences make the difference between clothes you love and clothes you avoid.

7. Determine Style Personality Words

Choose words that describe how you want to feel in your clothes. These are your Evergreen Style Words, your constants across every capsule. They come from your personality, energy, and values, not from trends.

8. Determine Preferred Visual Aesthetics

Collect the visuals that inspire you, such as specific aesthetics, eras, or moods. This is your Sunlight layer, the expressive side of your style that brings your wardrobe to life.

9. Define Ideal Silhouettes & Outfit Formulas

Identify outfit shapes that feel like you. Look for patterns in what you reach for and what you repeat. These become your go-to outfit formulas, the shortcut to feeling put together.

10. Define Core Color Palette

Pull together the shades you wear best all year. Use your ten personal colors to guide neutrals, accents, and contrast. This palette becomes the root system of every capsule you build.

11. Define Core Capsule Items

Create your all-season base wardrobe with timeless pieces that mix easily and match your palette. Think essentials that support multiple parts of your life and layer well with everything else.

12. Define Lifestyle Capsules

Design small add-on capsules for specific activities like work, movement, rest, or creative projects. Each capsule stays true to your colors and shapes but adapts to your routines.

13. Define Seasonal Capsules

Add seasonal layers that shift with weather and mood. Play with texture, fabric weight, and accent colors while staying grounded in your core palette. Each season feels fresh but always cohesive.

See the Method in Action

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