Wear the Clothes You Love
With the new year cultural “body stuff” kicks into high gear. That can be hard. Here’s a transcript of one of the daily meditations in 5 Days of Style, intended to help you stop body shaming yourself. Body shaming can come from all sorts of places, I said in this post about buffer phrases “a […]
Buying clothes that fit is just one of those things. It’s one of the most common problems people come to me with. And that’s no surprise. Collectively, we hold a lot of shame around clothing sizes and body measurements. And the first step to buying clothes that fit is knowing your measurements. So in this […]
I got a brilliant question that I wanted to take the time to answer in detail because “OMG yes!” The question was: how many bras is reasonable? How many bras should I own? The exact text was actually “…just heroically ordered 4 bras because I am so tired of hand washing the ONE bra I […]
Taking body measurements without body shaming can seem impossible. But it’s not. In this post, I’m going to share one of my favorite techniques for finding someone’s body measurements – especially when sizing, measurements and numbers are a sensitive topic. Please enter this post with caution as we will talk about and around numbers and measurements. […]
There’s a story I heard once, (it may be a complete fabrication, so grains of salt) that the costume designer of Mad Men apparently tells from when they began filming. The takeaway basically boils down to: give yourself time to get accustomed to a new style of clothing. If you don’t know Mad Men is […]