Upgrade Your Style (and get a peek into the process I use with style clients)

Is your closet like a hotel? Then you’ll never have cohesive style

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Is your closet like a hotel? Then you'll never have cohesive style

Cohesive style. Closets. Hotels. It comes together in the end. I’m currently reading an Agatha Christie novel and one of the characters was said to have “a heart like a hotel” – a revolving cast of love interests, none of whom stay long. I find this an amazing phrase, and reminded me immediately of one […]

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The siren’s song of the “fall wardrobe refresh”

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Are you hearing the calls for a fall wardrobe refresh?

We’re still in the beautiful final days of summer around here, but fall is beginning to whisper. Are you hearing the calls for a “fall wardrobe refresh?” Does that phrase immediately spark thoughts of donation dropoffs and shopping trips? (Or perhaps more cynically “what’s that going to cost?”) I responded to this note the other […]

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My ultimate denim pre-purchase test

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After much trial and error, I’ve developed my ultimate denim pre-purchase test. I don’t know about you but I used to routinely buy jeans that looked great in the store but never quite worked for my real life. Over time I developed a very elaborate dressing room test sequence to try and avoid this situation. […]

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How to find your body shape without body shaming

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How to find your body shape without body shaming – it sounds impossible but doesn’t have to be.  Body shapes give us generalized language for speaking about the silhouette and lines of your body and your outfit. We can use these basic shapes to understand more about how our clothes work and don’t work for […]

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On starting small and building your personal style

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Where I am, today’s temperature has a low almost at 0ºF (-17°C), and a high well below freezing, so I am delighting in having access to a wood stove (in addition to the centralized heating). Between snowy woods out the window, a red fox hanging around, and sipping tea by a warm fire it’s all […]

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