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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Nothing to Wear, the podcast that
Speaker 1: solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe. I'm Lee
Speaker 1: Campbell and every week I talk to an expert who
Speaker 1: helps us work out how to get more out of
Speaker 1: the clothes we already own and tells us exactly what
Speaker 1: is and what isn't worth adding to our wardrobe. We
Speaker 1: receive lots of questions from you, and one dressing room
Speaker 1: dilemma stood out as a real challenge. This listener felt
Speaker 1: like their wardrobe is old and tired and wants a refresh,
Speaker 1: but without spending much money. So stylist Amelia Morris and
Speaker 1: I took on the challenge, coming up with some simple
Speaker 1: hacks so easy they just take one minute and they
Speaker 1: will transform your items or your entire wardrobe. From how
Speaker 1: to mix up outfits with your belts, the two by
Speaker 1: two rule for styling tips are matching colors, layering techniques,
Speaker 1: and the versatility of a crossbody bag, and even some
Speaker 1: regular old household items you need to add to your
Speaker 1: fashion toolkits. So Amelia and I could not stop chatting,
Speaker 1: so let's jump into it. Wonderful, helpful, amazingly talented Amelia,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. Now, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: ask you some personal fashion questions because we've got a
Speaker 1: lot to cover and we've got a question from a
Speaker 1: nothing to Wear listener that we're going to help with
Speaker 1: lots of little tips, tricks and hacks. So the question
Speaker 1: is I wanted to refresh my wardrobe because everything is
Speaker 1: feeling old or tired or I'm bored of it, but
Speaker 1: I don't know where to start. What do you suggest? Now, Look,
Speaker 1: we can't really answer that in one fell swoop because
Speaker 1: we don't know what she's got what she doesn't. So
Speaker 1: we've just got a whole bunch of little tips, tricks, styling, hacks, methods, approaches.
Speaker 1: So Amelia, I want your first hack slash tip slash method.
Speaker 2: So I really love this Hacket's all about a sleeve garter.
Speaker 1: Okay, a sleeve garter. I'm getting eighties flashbacks. Remind me
Speaker 1: My mum had like kind of like a tiny slinky
Speaker 1: that you've used. What are they?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you basically use them to gather the sleeves
Speaker 2: of your shirts or your blazers or whatever jacket you
Speaker 2: might have that's really bulky and has a lot of fabric.
Speaker 2: And it's just a really great way to not only
Speaker 2: get rid of all of that bulky fabric, but it
Speaker 2: can also help you elevate your outfits as well give
Speaker 2: you a little bit of definition.
Speaker 1: How do you put it on so you can't see it?
Speaker 1: Do you kind of hide it in the fabric when
Speaker 1: you scrunch it up, or so you just.
Speaker 2: Put it over your sleeves and then you just pull
Speaker 2: up put your sleeve and gather them around your elbow.
Speaker 2: And I wear lots of boxy blazers and it's just
Speaker 2: a lovely way to create a little bit more definition
Speaker 2: and shapes.
Speaker 1: And I think that comes to the difference between wearing
Speaker 1: your clothes and styling your clothes, which is a lot
Speaker 1: of what we're about to talk about, the difference between
Speaker 1: getting dressed and then styling, and it's pretty much the
Speaker 1: same items. It's just those little shushes, right, Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get a pair of those, because at
Speaker 1: the moment, I'm just constantly pushing mine up. My first
Speaker 1: one is to do with panty liners, and I've sort
Speaker 1: of shed this a little bit in the past, but
Speaker 1: panty liners are the unsung hero of your wardrobe. So
Speaker 1: coming into spring, you might be wearing a lightweight trench
Speaker 1: or a blazer, or even a lightweight cardigan or a
Speaker 1: knit or whatever, but then you've got a tank underneath.
Speaker 1: You get a bit shitzy. You're running around and you
Speaker 1: don't want to wash those items all the time. So
Speaker 1: I just get a panty liner, and I use the
Speaker 1: sticky side and I stick it into the armpit of
Speaker 1: whatever that item is, and then it doesn't get shitzy.
Speaker 1: You don't really need to launder it until maybe you
Speaker 1: spill something on it. It's just like a little protection
Speaker 1: for your armpit area of whatever that top is. And
Speaker 1: another panty liner trick that I taught myself last minute.
Speaker 1: The other night, I was wearing some cool sheer stockings.
Speaker 1: You knoww stockings are cool, but then I was wearing
Speaker 1: a pump and the slippery stockings in the pump, I
Speaker 1: couldn't hold the shoes on there were slip sliding all
Speaker 1: over the place. So I stuck a panting liner into
Speaker 1: the inner sole of my shoes and no more slipping.
Speaker 1: And if the shoes are a little bit big, use
Speaker 1: a thicker pad.
Speaker 2: Mind blown pad?
Speaker 1: Two liners? Who line?
Speaker 2: Was that versatile?
Speaker 1: All right? What's your next one?
Speaker 2: So this is more like a styling method to simplify.
Speaker 1: I love a method, Yes, hit me.
Speaker 2: I actually posted one of these formulas on my social
Speaker 2: media other day and it went off. So this one
Speaker 2: is called the two by two outfit formula, pairing two
Speaker 2: casual pieces and two dressier pieces together. So I think
Speaker 2: about your blazer being a dressy piece, some heels they're
Speaker 2: a dressy piece, and then a casual piece would be
Speaker 2: a white tea and then indigo blue denim.
Speaker 1: Jets, yes, or even and this is a bit advance.
Speaker 1: But tracksuit pants, Like I'm loving tracksuit pants with a
Speaker 1: blazer and a sandal or a heel. So it's not
Speaker 1: stuff you'd necessarily think work, but because they're too dressy
Speaker 1: and then too casual kind of just could take you anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yes, And it's really the definition of smart casual as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, now that I host this podcast, I do that
Speaker 1: a lot more. But I used to think fancy top
Speaker 1: must be for fancy occasion, but now I'm like, hang on,
Speaker 1: how can I wear my things more? And it's putting
Speaker 1: a fancy top with super casual whatever or vice versa. Okay,
Speaker 1: my next one is weird, but stick with me. So
Speaker 1: a lot of us have cross body bags but might
Speaker 1: also have the little carry handles. I've got a few
Speaker 1: bags like this. Take your crossbody strap off. It depends
Speaker 1: on how thick your strap is, but I'm talking like
Speaker 1: the general width of a regular belt. Take the strap off,
Speaker 1: and then you use it as a belt in your
Speaker 1: jeans or your pants. And the way you do that
Speaker 1: is you clip it first at the sort of side
Speaker 1: and then around and around until you clip it at
Speaker 1: the other side because it's usually going to be too
Speaker 1: long or you kind of tight, and belt it over
Speaker 1: a trench or a coat and it looks so cool.
Speaker 1: And then you've got a matching accessory, which is your
Speaker 1: bet that automatically matches your bag, whether it's a little
Speaker 1: handlebag or a clutch. So it's a good way to
Speaker 1: turn your crossbody into a more dressy bag and then
Speaker 1: have a matching accessory out of one item.
Speaker 2: I love this. I've never heard of that before, so
Speaker 2: I'm going to try that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to show some of these on Instagram,
Speaker 1: I think, because I've got a few crossbody bags that
Speaker 1: that could work with. So I people are like, what
Speaker 1: does she mean? We'll have to show you. Or just
Speaker 1: if you've got, you know, a great red crossbody and
Speaker 1: you want a red belt, just take the handle off
Speaker 1: and use the belt phenius. I've done that with chain
Speaker 1: ones as well. But you've got a chain strap on
Speaker 1: your bag, whack it around your waist all make an
Speaker 1: accessory out of it, whack it around your neck.
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's yours next?
Speaker 2: So this one's for all of my petit ladies out there.
Speaker 2: And when I say petite, I'm talking about anyone who
Speaker 2: is under say five four or five three, which is me.
Speaker 2: Somebody like me. I'm always looking to elongate my silhouette
Speaker 2: and look a tad taller than I usually end yep.
Speaker 2: So one tip that I have is to create the
Speaker 2: illusion of height by wearing tonal dressing, so wearing something
Speaker 2: head to toe, so it could be beige and beige
Speaker 2: or black and black or whatever your color that you
Speaker 2: like to wear, and you can do monochrome base lanth,
Speaker 2: so you can add something over the top, so laser
Speaker 2: over a top and a pant because you've got the
Speaker 2: inner base. Okay, tonal is still going to give you
Speaker 2: that illusion of length.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I've done that and it works, and then sometimes
Speaker 1: it looks like I'm trying to wear a set, but
Speaker 1: it's not obviously a matching set, Like do you think
Speaker 1: there needs to be I don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: method of like making sure that people don't think, oh,
Speaker 1: she put on the wrong gray top with those gray pants.
Speaker 2: You can add different textures as well, and it doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be satin on satin for example.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree. And then it's more like you've got
Speaker 1: maybe like a little bouclet miniskirt and then a white
Speaker 1: tea and white sneakers or something. I love that and
Speaker 1: it just makes getting dressed so much easier. You're just
Speaker 1: looking for your white stuff or your beige stuff. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: this is another visual one, so stick with me while
Speaker 1: I try and describe it. I'm loving high waisted skirts
Speaker 1: at the moment, I'm loving high waisted jeans, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of tucking in and then sometimes depending on
Speaker 1: the length of your tea or your tank or whatever,
Speaker 1: there can be a lot of fabric. Also, I wee
Speaker 1: a lot, so then I am taking and tucking tuk
Speaker 1: tuk tuck. It's annoying. So I've got some longer T
Speaker 1: shirts that I actually want to wear as a crop
Speaker 1: or when I say crop, the appearance of it tucked
Speaker 1: into a high waisted skirt or jeans or pants. So
Speaker 1: instead of actually tucking, get those little little hair elastics,
Speaker 1: like almost the ones you wore on your braces, or
Speaker 1: just a small thin hair elastic, and each side of
Speaker 1: the tee you tie it around to make a little
Speaker 1: bit of fabric. You then tuck it under and sort
Speaker 1: of flounce it over, and it looks like it's tucked
Speaker 1: into your jeans or your skirt, but it's not, so
Speaker 1: it's not adding bulky fabric underneath your bottoms. And also
Speaker 1: then when you need to WII, you can just take
Speaker 1: your pants down or lift your skirt up and you're
Speaker 1: not trying to tuck everything back in again. And then
Speaker 1: on occasion a girlfriend's like, have you got hair elastic?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I do holding up my top
Speaker 1: at the moment. But it's a great way to tuck
Speaker 1: things in or try a cropped or tucked look without
Speaker 1: having to buy a whole different bunch of tops that
Speaker 1: are different lengths.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1: What else have you got for me? This is fun.
Speaker 2: I like my wardrobe to work hard for me, so
Speaker 2: I like to think how else can I wear something?
Speaker 2: So this little hack is where I take my belts
Speaker 2: that I usually wear on save my pants, for example,
Speaker 2: but I will belt them around my blazer.
Speaker 1: Yes. Else, I love this look. I always forget to
Speaker 1: do it, but it looks so stylish.
Speaker 2: Yes, And it's just a great way to amper your outfit.
Speaker 2: So you could go literally desk in the office with
Speaker 2: a blazer and then unbuton it and and then add
Speaker 2: your belt in the evening over the top of your blazer,
Speaker 2: and then you've got a completely different look.
Speaker 1: I love that. I got a pair. They're on sale
Speaker 1: of Camilla and Mark. Really cool jeans. They're like a
Speaker 1: foresty car key and the genes themselves came with a
Speaker 1: fabric little tie. And then I saw someone much cooler
Speaker 1: than me on Instagram wear the jeans that then put
Speaker 1: on a blazer and then use the tie from the
Speaker 1: jeans around the blazer again same color as the jeans
Speaker 1: I copied. You and I are both not really extremely tall,
Speaker 1: so this is a really clever little trick, particularly for
Speaker 1: Maxi dresses. But also if your dress is just a
Speaker 1: bit of a weird length, check on your Maxi dress.
Speaker 1: It's too long, and what I normally do when I'm
Speaker 1: running around after my son is tucking it into my
Speaker 1: undies so I don't drip over, which is not that stylish.
Speaker 1: So you can use a shoelace, or you can also
Speaker 1: just use a length of elastic, which you can pick
Speaker 1: up from Spotlight for two bucks, tied around your waist.
Speaker 1: It's very subtle, but you very subtly kind of pulled
Speaker 1: the fabric over the elastic and sort of flounce it out.
Speaker 1: You can't see it too much. It kind of just
Speaker 1: gives the illusion of almost a skirt and top set,
Speaker 1: and then you can kind of customize where that dress falls,
Speaker 1: whether it's a Maxi that's touching the floor or a
Speaker 1: Meati that's just an awkward length, or I do have
Speaker 1: a mini dress. I mean I never want my mini
Speaker 1: dresses to be extra short. Anyway, it looks like it
Speaker 1: needs tailoring, but I'm like, eh, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get a tailor. So I just tied a little bit
Speaker 1: of elastick flounced it over, depends on the fabric, but
Speaker 1: that one is actually sequenced and it still worked. And
Speaker 1: then it just kind of shortens it, and then you've
Speaker 1: still got the dress at the original length. Should you
Speaker 1: want to know, add a heel or wear it differently,
Speaker 1: But it's just a way to shorten things without sewing
Speaker 1: or tailoring.
Speaker 2: Love that and being a fellow short person myself.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm constantly googling queer how do I make something
Speaker 1: shorter without cutting it? What else have you got?
Speaker 2: Sticking with the theme of belts, is you know how
Speaker 2: sometimes you have a loose flap of your belt if
Speaker 2: it doesn't go all the way into.
Speaker 1: The next loop. Yes, this drives me mad.
Speaker 2: So I use double sided fashion tape.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that is the smartest thing I've ever
Speaker 1: heard of. I have tried bobby pins, but then they
Speaker 1: go flying off.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I do this all the time.
Speaker 1: I am just thinking of all the sad belts that
Speaker 1: I've cut and ruined that I could have just stuck
Speaker 1: it to itself, because then I've also tried to do
Speaker 1: that cool girl, loopy naughty thing, and then it just
Speaker 1: looks weird and flies out.
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes the leather might be too stiff to do that. Yes,
Speaker 2: is a really good way just to stick it down.
Speaker 1: I love that so much. Oh my god, you're blowing
Speaker 1: my mind. Okay, So layering necklaces is huge, and thankfully
Speaker 1: you can buy some molten layered necklaces. The work is
Speaker 1: done for you. There's just one class. When there's two
Speaker 1: or three or four chains hanging, that looks very cool.
Speaker 1: But a lot of us, me included, have some beautiful
Speaker 1: necklaces I love at home and would love to layer.
Speaker 1: But they're all the same length. Put them both on
Speaker 1: one and then two, and then flip them around so
Speaker 1: both of the class are at the front, just so
Speaker 1: you can work without having to be a flip top head.
Speaker 1: Then undo them both and then relink each class to
Speaker 1: the link of the other necklace. Then if you turn
Speaker 1: them both back around and pull them down, they're going
Speaker 1: to be two different lengths. And also it kind of
Speaker 1: stops them from tangling because they're now joined to the
Speaker 1: other one, so it's not going to not up at
Speaker 1: the back. Does that make sense.
Speaker 2: Mind blown. Yes, I'm going to buy this one too.
Speaker 1: I am going to try and work out how to
Speaker 1: add a third. It's a bit like juggling. Everyone can
Speaker 1: juggle to but when you chuck in a third. But
Speaker 1: it definitely makes two necklaces sit just that beautiful kind
Speaker 1: of distance from each other without having to go buy
Speaker 1: more accessories. What else you got?
Speaker 2: I have got a tip for wearing oversized. So I
Speaker 2: call this a bit of a hat because there's a
Speaker 2: lot of oversized garments going around at the moment. The
Speaker 2: key to wearing oversize is to wear one piece oversized
Speaker 2: and one piece that is more fitted, just as balance
Speaker 2: your silhouette. Because I know have a lot of clients
Speaker 2: that come to me and they say they really want
Speaker 2: to wear a cheap oversized blazer, but it feels like
Speaker 2: there's just so much fabric and it wears.
Speaker 1: Them because it comes down to proportions, doesn't it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've fallen into this trap because I love oversized wide
Speaker 1: leg pants. Wide leg jeans are having a moment, so
Speaker 1: are oversized blazeres and oversized shirts. But sometimes I put
Speaker 1: it all on together and I look like a little
Speaker 1: girl wearing her dad's clothes. She's it best to be
Speaker 1: oversized on the top or the bottom, or it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter as long as you're taking in proportions altogether.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all about taking in proportions. So if you're
Speaker 2: going to wear palazzo wide leg kind of pants, you
Speaker 2: might want to wear something a little bit more fitted
Speaker 2: on the top. And fitted doesn't mean it has to
Speaker 2: be skin tight. It just could be like a tea
Speaker 2: for example, but tucked in.
Speaker 1: Okay, my next one is one word, and I want
Speaker 1: to get better at it. Sunglasses. Honestly, if I'm wearing
Speaker 1: my daggiest leggings and sneakers and running around as soon
Speaker 1: as I put Sonny's on, it looks more intentional. It
Speaker 1: looks like I'm trying to be casual cool. I have
Speaker 1: thirty pairs of sunglasses. Really, is there a pair in
Speaker 1: my handbag or in my car? But if you have
Speaker 1: not had time to get ready and you're running out
Speaker 1: of the house, I mean, unless you're go to the movies,
Speaker 1: grab a pair of Sonnies. It immediately just says that
Speaker 1: you put in a bit of effort. Even if from
Speaker 1: the neck down you didn't hide sleepless nights. I know
Speaker 1: you love sonnies and I love sunnies too, but I
Speaker 1: forget to wear them. How do you remember to wear them?
Speaker 1: And how do you incorporate sunglasses into your personal style?
Speaker 2: I have sunglasses for every single kind of outfit.
Speaker 1: But do you pack them? Do you remember to grab them?
Speaker 2: I have a display shelf with all of my sunglasses
Speaker 2: so I can see what I have to work with it.
Speaker 2: Like any of your clothes, if they're packed away and
Speaker 2: you can't see them, they're kind of forgotten about.
Speaker 1: And maybe do you have like a pair or two
Speaker 1: of classics in your everyday handbag or in your car,
Speaker 1: because that's it, Like, what are they doing up in
Speaker 1: my bedroom? If I've got a set that's in my car,
Speaker 1: I'm more likely to wear them that smart. It's such
Speaker 1: a simple one and very good for your eyes. We
Speaker 1: just need to remember to do it. What else have
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 2: So I've got another hack for wearing cross body bags.
Speaker 2: So a lot of the time when you go and
Speaker 2: buy a cross body bag, the strap placement might be really,
Speaker 2: really long, and generally they're not being adjusted. So I
Speaker 2: see a lot of women and it's no fault of
Speaker 2: their own. Is wearing really long cross body bags hanging
Speaker 2: below the hip, and if you're a hippie person like myself,
Speaker 2: what it can do. It can add more volume and
Speaker 2: accentuate that area. Yes, So what you can do is
Speaker 2: slightly adjust the strap above your hip.
Speaker 1: Yes, so it sits kind of in that curve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it really will change up the proportions of
Speaker 2: your whole silhouette.
Speaker 1: The other day, I was wearing one of my crossbodies
Speaker 1: and because I like to like swivel it around almost
Speaker 1: on my bum, because if I'm wearing a crossbody, I
Speaker 1: mean business, I'm walking, I'm using my arms, and it
Speaker 1: was just flap flat, flap flat flat. I spanking my
Speaker 1: balm this bag and I was like, oh, hooked it
Speaker 1: up a bit, and then it just didn't annoy me.
Speaker 1: But so often we forget that often a lot of
Speaker 1: things are adjustable in that way and we just accept it.
Speaker 2: And if you're traveling as well and you want a
Speaker 2: little bit more security with your bag having it.
Speaker 1: Oh big time. Yeah, you don't want it yet, and
Speaker 1: definitely wear it more to the front. Okay, onto the
Speaker 1: too long thing again, because I think you would wire
Speaker 1: in the same boat I have so many beautiful tanks
Speaker 1: or crops some addresses. Some are casual, but they're too long,
Speaker 1: or I don't like how they flow down the bottom,
Speaker 1: or they just don't work with the outfit, because again,
Speaker 1: we're wearing more high waisted things than ever before. So
Speaker 1: you've got a tank that's too long, or a singular
Speaker 1: top that's too long. What I want you to do
Speaker 1: is you put it on and then you fold it
Speaker 1: all the way down so it's kind of inside out,
Speaker 1: and your straps are hanging down near where your pockets
Speaker 1: would be, so you've kind of got it on as
Speaker 1: a boob tube, but it's inside out. Stick with me.
Speaker 1: Then you're getting your strapless brah. You put strapless bra
Speaker 1: on over the fabric right, and then you reach down,
Speaker 1: pick up your straps and put it back on, and
Speaker 1: it's now a cropped tank or a shorter tank. And
Speaker 1: depending on how much fabric you've got to play with,
Speaker 1: if it was way too long or if you're quite short,
Speaker 1: you can still get it to sit sort of at
Speaker 1: your waist or a little bit lower, and then wear
Speaker 1: it with jeans or skirts, and again you can weed
Speaker 1: better and easier, and you're not tucking it in and
Speaker 1: it just kind of turns a really long top that
Speaker 1: you might not have been wearing because of the length
Speaker 1: and what you wanted to style with into a shorter tank.
Speaker 2: Love that, Love it.
Speaker 1: It's just about getting more use out of the things
Speaker 1: you've already got right, exactly anything else.
Speaker 2: We're still in sweater weather in Victoria. Yeah, but I've
Speaker 2: got to tip for if you want to wear a
Speaker 2: sweater or a cardigan and add a little bit more
Speaker 2: depth than interest to either of those, is wearing white
Speaker 2: underneath it. By adding like a white tea underneath your sweater,
Speaker 2: you're adding more contrasts.
Speaker 1: Okay, it just looks so much visually, like if it's
Speaker 1: an undone button like a cardigan or a sheer of fabric.
Speaker 2: You can see my cardigan here.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're wearing a beautiful lemon yellow and it does
Speaker 1: look very vibrant.
Speaker 2: Add a crew neck tea underneath. Peep out the top.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that. Yeah, it says I put in
Speaker 1: effort because layerings what all the cool kids do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then also because we are in that transseasonal time,
Speaker 1: if it does get a little bit too warm, you
Speaker 1: can take it off and you're not sitting there in
Speaker 1: your bra Yes. Now before we got a bougie and
Speaker 1: budget one that has changed my life. I went to Bunning's.
Speaker 1: I bought a small clothing rackets timber. It's quite stylish
Speaker 1: and it fits probably about ten things on it. And
Speaker 1: now I put on there the items that are from
Speaker 1: my ten percent that I wear ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: time that I love, that are kind of out of
Speaker 1: the house clothes or new things or things I want
Speaker 1: to wear soon. Because every morning I am dealing with
Speaker 1: a five year old, I'm trying to get out of
Speaker 1: the house. If I look at my whole wardrobe, it's
Speaker 1: too overwhelm and I probably just grabbed the same jeans
Speaker 1: and T shirt, nothing wrong with that. But if I've
Speaker 1: got a little rack of like an edit, I go, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to pick something from here, and then you
Speaker 1: put on a smaller reddit of your favorite things or
Speaker 1: things you want to wear soon. That kind of all
Speaker 1: work together and you're choosing from a much smaller selection.
Speaker 1: It takes away the overwhelm of getting dressed in the morning.
Speaker 1: And then what I do, if I'm well behaved, is
Speaker 1: every Sunday night I sort of rotate that there's jeans
Speaker 1: there's some classics there, but there might be my new
Speaker 1: top I'm looking forward to wearing, whereas if I put
Speaker 1: it in my wardrobe, I forget about it. I like
Speaker 1: that you can have all the clothes in the world,
Speaker 1: but if you don't have time or you're overwhelmed, you're
Speaker 1: not going to wear them.
Speaker 2: No, and you're just overwhelmed when you've got a lot
Speaker 2: of choice in your wardrobe. So this really simplifies it.
Speaker 1: It's very expensive. How wond are these okay bougie and budgets?
Speaker 1: So my friend to merely, are we going to bring
Speaker 1: some items that help sort of hack or elevate so
Speaker 1: they're kind of more functional, I would say, So let's
Speaker 1: start with your bougie, my friend, what do you got?
Speaker 2: So, keeping in theme of what we spoke about, my
Speaker 2: bougie is quite bougie. It's a belt from Selene and
Speaker 2: it's eight hundred and ninety Oh.
Speaker 1: My gosh, but of course it is. But you know what,
Speaker 1: Chuck that on with a paper bag and you look good.
Speaker 2: But the reason why I've put it in here because
Speaker 2: it's a style that has been around for a very
Speaker 2: long time, so it's not going to date. Wear it
Speaker 2: for your trousers. You could wear it over your blazers.
Speaker 2: I feel like it would be an investment piece. I
Speaker 2: buy lots of speakers. I bought five pairs of speakers.
Speaker 2: If I didn't buy those sneakers, I could have bought them.
Speaker 1: The belt, yes, totally. And you can wear the belt
Speaker 1: every day. You can't wear five pairs of sneakers at once.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What color is it?
Speaker 2: Black?
Speaker 1: And the buckle's pretty classic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a gold hardware.
Speaker 1: Oh and you know what even and if people don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, when you put that on, you
Speaker 1: immediately feel elevated.
Speaker 2: It's very minimalistic, but it's elevated at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yes, and sometimes jeans and a tea you chuck on
Speaker 1: a belt and it just changes the game.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Okay, my Bougie is very functional and has changed my life.
Speaker 1: It's not that expensive, but it's sixty five dollars. It's
Speaker 1: a handheld or a travel steamer. I'm not an ironer.
Speaker 1: There is an iron in my home. Can't confirm I'm
Speaker 1: a steamer. So this steam is fantastic if you're traveling
Speaker 1: or you just want your clothes to look a bit
Speaker 1: less disheveled. Back to my Sunday session. If there's a
Speaker 1: few things on that rack that I want to wear
Speaker 1: that week that I can't get away with the wrinkles in,
Speaker 1: and trust me, I'll try I steam them because Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, I'm in a frenzy. If it's wrinkled, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna use it. And this is very little. You
Speaker 1: fill it up with water, you plug it in, and
Speaker 1: off you go. So it's great for travel. Fits in
Speaker 1: your suitcase. And I just have it basically sitting under
Speaker 1: that little rack that I have and I do a
Speaker 1: quick steam and then my linen pants or my satin
Speaker 1: or silk shirt or whatever I can't wear, I just
Speaker 1: give it once over. It's very very quick, and if
Speaker 1: you just kind of do those little things like that,
Speaker 1: you look more elevated. You're just wearing the basics or
Speaker 1: a simple slipskirt, but if you've taken the creases out,
Speaker 1: it just looks a bit more pulled together. What is
Speaker 1: your budget?
Speaker 2: This is very budget friendly. So back to the double
Speaker 2: sided fashion tape. So I usually use one it's called
Speaker 2: the Hollywood Fashion tape, about twenty dollars and not only
Speaker 2: can you use it for your loose belt flaps. You
Speaker 2: can also use it to hide your brass straps as well.
Speaker 1: I've used it before. If I've got like a gaping
Speaker 1: button hole across the chest, it fits right, but it
Speaker 1: kind of looks a bit too what's going on there.
Speaker 1: You just put a little bit of tape between the
Speaker 1: two buttons and it's so good. And also I've done
Speaker 1: it to him lightweight skirts and pants they wouldn't hold
Speaker 1: a jeene. But if you've got a really kind of
Speaker 1: lightweight cheese cloth or a limp and they're too long,
Speaker 1: the tapeholes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely does. It's so versatile. Every stylis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's when you first think of it. For me,
Speaker 1: I think of it of like wearing a really low
Speaker 1: plunging top to lock your boobies in, but it's way
Speaker 1: more than that. Yeah, it's a sticky safety pin essentially.
Speaker 2: Pretty much.
Speaker 1: Okay, my budget is super budget and I cannot live
Speaker 1: without them. They're from Amazon. They're called the Mini Clothes Hangar,
Speaker 1: connector Hook, and they're this little sort of figure of
Speaker 1: eight black or you can get white. So say you've
Speaker 1: got a set also you're traveling, or you just want
Speaker 1: to pair an outfit together, you get the one hanger,
Speaker 1: then you loop this little thing over the hang bit
Speaker 1: and then it kind of creates a second layer where
Speaker 1: you can then hang the second item and then they
Speaker 1: move together. So sit in your wardrobe together or on
Speaker 1: your little rack, or I take about twenty of these
Speaker 1: when I'm traveling, because you know, if you're unpacking at
Speaker 1: a hotel and you've got four hangers and your husband's
Speaker 1: like that name that Matt Blazer, and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to hang my things. You can kind of
Speaker 1: double triple them and get sort of a row of
Speaker 1: clothes off the one hanger. They are game changer and
Speaker 1: they're fourteen ninety five and I think you get twenty
Speaker 1: for that. And I've bought several several packs.
Speaker 2: Oh I need to get that.
Speaker 1: Or if I used to hang sort of a suit
Speaker 1: separately and then I'd put the blazer in the blazer
Speaker 1: section of the pants in the pants section, I could
Speaker 1: never find them. But now if there's something that's a set,
Speaker 1: I use these little guys to hang them as a set. Amelia,
Speaker 1: you are fabulous. I feel like we need to get
Speaker 1: together and have a play and try out all those
Speaker 1: little tips and tricks and hacks. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining me, Thanks for having me, thank you for
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