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261 | Style Coaching Behind the Scenes: Solving Real Client Challenges with Color, Style, and Accessories
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Ever wish you could be a fly on the wall during a real style coaching session? In today’s episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my group coaching program, HER Style Collective, so you can hear the exact advice I shared with a handful...
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Heather Riggs
Ever wish you could be a fly on the wall during a real style coaching session? In today's episode, I'm taking you behind the scenes of my group coaching program, Her Style Collective. So you can hear the exact advice I shared with a handful of our.
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Coaching Member
Members recently, including how to match your.
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Heather Riggs
Feminine or elegant aesthetic with more casual summer pieces, how to stop overthinking your style mood board, and how to transition a beachy color palette into something you.
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Coaching Member
Can wear year round.
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Heather Riggs
We even took a deep dive into belts and dissected how to find the.
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Coaching Member
Right one to complement your figure, your personal sty, and your features.
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Heather Riggs
If you're curious how personalized style coaching really works, or if you're looking for.
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Coaching Member
Some quick advice to incorporate into your.
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Heather Riggs
Own wardrobe, this episode is for you. Let's take a peek inside Her Style Collective together.
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Coaching Member
And if you want to join us.
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Heather Riggs
For the next live coaching session, which happens each and every Thursday, head to herstylellc.com collective right now to get started.
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Coaching Member
Either way, get ready to take notes and enjoy listening in.
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Heather Riggs
Welcome to Her Style podcast, where we're all about empowering you to show up and get dressed every day with confidence. I'm your host, Heather Riggs, a 15 year and counting certified image consultant and color specialist, ready to build a wardrobe and a personal style you love. Let's get started.
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Member 1
Yeah, I just had a general question because I'm just starting like just with regards to signature style, like I did the quiz, I think I did it a couple times now, but it seems to be landing on sort of feminine, elegant and alluring. But then when I look at my sort of my lifestyle, especially over the summer, it's very casual. So I guess my question is do I sort of lean more into like sort of casual clothes but with a feminine touch or something? Is that kind of how you do it? And then, you know, maybe for work, I guess would be the more elegant and then alluring, maybe more for dressing up dressy occasions. Is that sort of the way to look at it?
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Coaching Member
Yeah, that's such a good question. And I feel like a lot of us can relate to that. Right? There's kind of what's the ideal vision? How would we just dress every day if we were doing kind of our ideal thing or living in our, our fantasy life? And then what do we need, practically speaking, to get through the day to day? So we want to try to meet in the middle somewhere so that even the day to day stuff feels like you, that you feel your best, that you're representing your Style, even if it's in some small way, maybe through accessories or how you style your hair and makeup. So I think exactly what you said would really be a great approach, and maybe it's leaning into the different aspects of your style preferences for different activities that you have. That's a really common thing. If. If you like to dress a little bit more alluring, maybe that's for your date nights or if you're going out with your girlfriends or if you have a function for work that's a little bit more like, you don't have to be buttoned up and super profess that kind of thing if it's maybe just with your co workers. So I think we can find opportunities to really express those different aspects of your style. But my main goal for you is that you feel like you have a cohesive wardrobe. So ideally, we want to be able to find pieces that you can integrate into the different things that you have going on. So it's not like this is for work. This is for dates. This is for this. Right. So we've got to look at some of the similar threads between all of it. If you feel like, for example, a lot of these looks that you've saved here, which are so beautiful, so fun. I love all the color in here, and I know we did your color palette before. Right. So it makes me excited to see a lot of those hues represented in here. And I definitely see a lot of feminine and elegant and alluring touches. So I feel like you captured this really well. Some of these, I think, could be a little bit more natural casual. But what I would recommend at this point is to maybe look through, and if you feel like all of this is for maybe work and that's really what you kind of focused on here, you might want to, like, what's one example of kind of an activity that you would have right now that feels more casual?
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Member 1
Yeah, I mean, I guess.
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Member 2
Yeah.
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Member 1
When I was sort of looking at my summer, it's. It's, you know, I don't have to go into the office quite as much. It's more just kind of doing errands and a little bit of, like, golfing. But I have some golf outfits already, so it's mostly really just kind of.
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Member 2
Yeah.
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Member 1
Just hanging out. And so, yeah, that's. I'm sort of thinking, yeah, I should probably be looking for, like, cute summer dress, casual dresses, maybe some shorts, that kind of things. So would I just put into Pinterest casual summer dresses?
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Coaching Member
Is that. Yes. If you like to wear dresses when you're just kind of running errands. I think that's such an easy thing to wear in the summer. It's light. It's what you don't have to think about it. It's just one piece, and your outfit is done. So I'm a big fan of dresses in the summer, personally. It would also work well with your feminine and alluring style, too. So you could do that. You could do casual summer dresses. You could even type for more outfit ideas and maybe do something like casual feminine outfits for summer or, you know, infuse some of your different style words and just see what you find more for inspiration rather than specific items. Right now, to start, just to kind of get a good sense of what types of whole outfits you like. So I would search for some more specific things for your activities. It could even be, you know, alluring loungewear, or. I mean, be careful. You might get a lot of kind.
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Member 3
Of.
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Coaching Member
Take that with a grain of salt. But you might want to just infuse some of your style words. Maybe it's like, pretty loungewear or that kind of stuff, just so that your mood board is really reflective of all the different aspects of your life. Right. This is beautiful for work and for date night and for those occasions that you want to dress up. I think we also want to make sure we're hitting on the more casual things and finding a way to infuse your style in into that.
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Member 1
Right.
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Coaching Member
I mean, you could wear a golf outfit and still make it look a little bit sexy with the way you style your hair and makeup, or make it look more feminine with your jewelry or the colors that you're choosing. So there's a lot of ways that we can make it work for whatever you need to do. But I think in this phase for step one, it's really important to consider all the different aspects of your life and your style. Right. Okay.
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Member 1
Yeah, that's a good, good suggestion.
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Member 2
Thanks.
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Coaching Member
Okay. Yes, you're welcome. And if you add to it and you want us to review it again, just let us know. Ping us in the group. Or we could take a look again at the call next week if you're able to join us.
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Member 1
Oh, sure.
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Coaching Member
Yeah. Okay. All right. I see a question from the chat as well. And you said you've hit an unexpected snag early in the process. You're struggling to create your new personal style mood board. Any tips? What do you feel like is tripping you up? Can you give me any more detail just so I know how to best coach you on that.
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Member 4
Well, in the past, when. Before I joined the collective, when I would do a mood board, it just seemed fun and easy and light. And now I'm. I don't know, I'm struggling because I.
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Member 2
Think I know more.
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Member 4
And then I've. I've had a lot of trial and error, which is why I landed in the collective.
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Member 2
And I'm so happy to be here.
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Member 4
Because I'm tired of the trial and.
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Member 2
Error process of trying to build a wardrobe. So now I look at things that I like, and I think I just cancel them out because I think, well, I couldn't wear that, or I know that won't look good on me, and I'm not having fun with it, and I don't know how to. And I'm.
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Member 4
I'm a creative person.
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Member 2
I just don't know how now to get excited about it. I just keep looking through Pinterest and seeing things that I like it, but it won't work on me, or I like some parts of it, but not others. And I just think I'm over. I'm overthinking it, maybe.
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Coaching Member
Yeah. I appreciate you sharing that additional insight about what's going on. It sounds like you almost know too much at this point. So I think the best thing for you to do with step one is to forget everything that you know or that you think you know, because step one is all about being playful and creative and exploring and not worrying too much yet about how it's going to translate to you. That's going to come as you continue through the steps. And my philosophy is, if you see an outfit that you really love, we can find ways to make it work better for you. There are always ways to adjust things so we can take that kind of raw inspiration and look at the specifics. Do we need to adjust the silhouette a little bit or the proportions? Do we need to play around with the colors? But we can really capture the essence of an outfit, even if it's not those exact specific pieces, which, especially with Pinterest, sometimes it's older looks that we can't find those exact items anyway. So we just want to get a good initial overview of what things excite you or draw you in, just so we can get some good initial inspiration about the overall style that you would like to have. And then from there, as we go through the other steps, part of your homework is going to be to go back and look at how it does apply to your mood board. So you're kind of work. You're trying to work backwards Knowing things that work for you and don't work for you, but really for the beginning, I just want you to let yourself run wild and save anything. And I've talked about this with some members before. It doesn't even just have to be outfit inspiration. If you want to look around for color schemes that you like, or maybe it's artwork or a scene from nature. Anything that just catches your eye that makes you feel excited, that brings you some joy, and that correlates with how you want to look and feel when you get dressed. That's the most important thing to focus on in this early phase. We'll get into all the logistics and making sure that we put those looks together in ways that bring out your best and really work for you as we move forward. So I know it's hard to forget things that you know, but we can go back and you can pare it down later, too.
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Member 4
Okay, that's very helpful. So it doesn't have to necessarily be a whole outfit.
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Member 2
If it is, if it is style oriented, it could be maybe I'm inspired by a particular pair of shoes or something like that. And then maybe it's also sometimes I'm concurrently. Not that I have all this time in the world, but I'm concurrently working on style in my home. And sometimes a room style inspires me in terms of how I want to feel. So maybe I can throw things like that in.
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Coaching Member
Yeah, 100%. Jenna Anderson, who's going to be on the call eventually. She's joining us a little bit late today. She's one of our members. Been in for a few rounds, and we had this exact thing where she was really feeling stuck because she loved the style that she had in her home and she was feeling really stuck in her wardrobe. So I recommended that she do a whole mood board that had nothing to do with outfits. I was like, just pull a bunch of images together that represent how you want to feel in this season. And we kind of reverse engineered some outfit ideas from there. So there's really no set way that you have to do it. I want you to do it in a way that helps you kind of loosen you up a little bit and not overthink it. So if it's maybe starting with some other inspiration things that you're using for your home, like I said, images that you see online that you just really love, feel free to post those. We can always find outfits that kind of integrate some of those details later. And if you do see an outfit that you like. But maybe there's One detail that you don't, you can save it, and you can add a note in there just so you remember what it was that you liked and didn't like. I think it's eventually helpful if we can have some full outfits just to get an overview of how you want to put things together. But every single detail doesn't have to be perfect either. That would take forever. You had to wait until you found all the most perfect outfits and everything was going to work exactly the way you wanted for you. So, yeah, this should really just be a fun phase to get your imagination going.
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Member 4
Okay. I think there has been some perfectionism.
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Member 2
And I've also been thinking of it as I should focus on summer, but I. Is it okay? Just to. Whatever inspires me at this stage, I.
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Coaching Member
Think that that's great, especially if you don't want to be worried about filtering things out just because of the season. I've seen members also create a spring summer mood board and a fall winter mood board, depending on where you live, if your wardrobe changes significantly. For some of us, we have more distinct seasons than others, and we do want to change things up from time to time throughout the year. So it's really up to you. If you just want to do one big board, we can always sort it out. We need to. Or, you know, if you feel like you kind of like to dress the same way all year long, you probably don't need to have separate boards for the seasons.
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Member 4
Okay. May I ask you just a. A technical question on the process? Because I started out thinking about my top three styles from the quiz, and I was trying to search terms related to those styles, and I don't feel like that was getting me where I need to go. Plus, I think I understand.
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Member 2
The purpose.
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Member 4
Of the seven distinct styles, and I.
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Member 2
Understand why we've narrowed it down in the quiz to have top three, but there's a part of me that feels that. Not that I would say my results are wrong, but I think there's more to me than the results, so I'm just not quite sure how to find images.
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Coaching Member
What were your top three results? Can you remind me?
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Member 4
Yes.
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Member 2
Classic 64, natural 18 and elegant 18%.
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Coaching Member
Okay, well, so it's possible that the results are wrong. It could be. If your third result was tied with something else, it's going to default to the first one on the list. So it is possible that you could have had alluring, feminine, dramatic, or creative as another element that wasn't reflected in those results. And really, it's just designed to Kind of give you a starting point. And I think the best thing about this process is coming up with your own blend of what those words mean. And you are absolutely welcome to deviate. If those don't feel like they fully align with how you want to show up, you're welcome to come up with your own style words. Or what you could also do is look through the combination boards just for a starting point, see if you like any of sort of the sample images that are in the boards that I've put together and then in the combination boards if you want to kind of deep dive. But you can also, if you have the pin it extension on your browser, you can save images from anywhere. So you don't have to look just on Pinterest. If there are brands that you really love to shop from, you could look at what they have. I especially love when they have inspiration photos and necessarily product images so you can kind of get a sense of like the lifestyle that they're trying to promote. Right. So if they like an online catalog, that can be a great source for photos. If you have celebrities that you really like, how they dress, or maybe if you've been following other influencers, you can find inspiration anywhere. And then like I said, if you're shopping for your home and you see a really great pattern on a pillow or something, you could save that to your mood board too if you have that browser extension set up. So I would start with that, but maybe spend a little bit of time brainstorming what words resonate with you a little bit more. And then I would love for you to share that in the group so we can see what's feeling good for you and how it may or may not align with your quiz results. I can also look into that and see on my end if there was any other option for your third one that maybe was tied and just dismissed by default.
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Member 4
Okay, I appreciate that. I do think that I might not be alone in this, but sometimes I feel that while classic is my foundation, I understood the results. I was not surprised by natural and elegant. There's a part of me that wants a little extra spice of an occasional alluring, an occasional romantic, and an occasional dramatic.
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Coaching Member
You're not alone in that because I think for a lot of us it also depends on the occasion. Sure, right. So if you're going on vacation, you might want to have a little bit more adventure and maybe try some more dramatic colors or some playful jewelry or things that you might not wear in your day to day life, but that you want to Break out when you're going on a trip and somewhere maybe exotic or different, or if you're going on a date night, you might want to look a little bit more alluring. I think those things are very natural. For me, the importance of dialing in an overall style is just so that you feel like your wardrobe is cohesive, and we don't have all of these distinct wardrobes for these different events. We really want to be able to have things that kind of mix and match so that we can maximize what we have. So it's, like, great if there's sort of that recurring theme throughout everything. And maybe your version of an alluring date night look has some classic, elegant elements to it, but feels a little sexier than something you might wear to the office. So we've just got to figure out what those different avenues feel like for you so that you look like yourself, you're in your style. It might feel a little bit different from occasion to occasion, but I would say, like, play around with all of those things. Make sure that your mood board is comprehensive of all the different ways that you need to get dressed as you go. So look for date night outfit inspiration, look for loungewear ideas. The more you can kind of build this out and give us a good starting point, we can start to notice what are the commonalities between all of these things. Got it. I think that will help us dial in some of those keywords that you want to keep in mind. The whole goal here is figuring out what are your most important style values, because we want to be able to support you in making decisions that really align with all of that.
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Member 4
That makes a lot of sense, Heather, because I think I have focused my ideas on the style board, on the clothes, the time I spend most thinking about style, which is work. But I just got back from a vacation in Spain, where it was primarily around being outdoors and hiking. And even though I know I wasn't really supposed to shop yet, I looked at my hiking wardrobe before I left, and I thought, this is not going to cut it. Not for this fun trip with my friends. And I did a little shopping, and.
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Member 2
I tried to up my style for that trip with just a few pieces. But instead of just plain hiking pants, I found some really fun jogger cargo hiking pants in a color that was in my color palette, and I just felt so much better.
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Member 4
So that this is a great tip.
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Member 2
Because I want to add those kinds of things to the style board too.
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Coaching Member
Oh, that's great. Yes. It's looking at how can I Infuse my style into everything that I do so everything feels like me and brings out the best version of me. So I love that you. It's okay that you bought a few things ahead of time, because they were obviously needs that you had. And I'm glad that you were able to feel more like yourself and, you know, dress in your best colors and all of those things for the trip. So that's great. Great.
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Member 2
Well, thank you, Heather. Thanks for all the tips.
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Coaching Member
Oh, absolutely. You're welcome. So let us know if you've come up with some other style words that feel more true for you. And I will check the quiz results after the call today and let you know if I see anything else that might be a stronger contender for you.
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Member 2
Sounds good.
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Coaching Member
Great.
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Member 2
Thank you.
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Coaching Member
Yes, you're welcome. All right. So, Annette, are you still on the call? We can talk about your question next. I have you in the queue. Hi, there. You need to look at your color palette a little bit and break you out of the thought that it's only going to work for summer because you asked for a lot of beachy colors. But I want to show you how you can use your colors in any time of year. And again, I think this will be helpful for everyone. Sometimes we're going to find more of our colors are prevalent in certain seasons or years than others, depending on what's trending and things like that. But I think there's always ways to make your colors work, no matter the season. So this is a great question to dive into. I feel like a lot of these pieces, some of them are more summery. Yes. But a top like this, this is. This feels very fall. I mean, I. You could do it spring fall for sure. But I think it's kind of looking at your color palette instead of. Yes. From the bird's eye view, it feels very beachy. It feels very fresh and summery and light. But if you look color by color, I think that you'll see that there are a lot of fall tones in here, especially all of these browns. Your formal neutrals feel very autumnal to me because we've got all the deep teals, the dark olives, and then even some of your dramatic colors. If you just sort of isolate swatch by swatch instead of looking at it from the bird's eye view, I think you will be able to find pieces in any of these colors in fall items. You could probably even find satin blouses in some of your pinks and the coral colors, too. That would work for that season, especially even all of these neutrals. So I think we just need to look piece by piece instead of. Yes, the whole thing does look really beachy and fun, but I think it'll transition easily. If you. And maybe you want to just limit to a couple of your favorite colors. It's up to you. I like to really shop from everything and have all of my options, because we know that this all works nicely together. But if you wanted to say, okay, for the fall, I really just want to go with some of these darker notes and maybe some more of the neutrals. You can do that. You don't have to use your whole color palette all year long either.
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Member 5
Well, and most of my bottoms are neutrals, so anything from a top perspective is going to work. I do not own a skirt. I have some dresses now because I bought those for the hot weather and the trips that I've been on. I do not own a skirt.
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Coaching Member
I don't see any skirts on your mood board. I don't know skirts, but if that's something, well, there's a dress here that would be a nice, easy piece that you could wear to work. I love dresses for the ease of. It's one piece. You don't have to think about putting things together. And depending on the shoes and the way you accessorize, you could wear it for work, you could wear it for play, you could wear it dressy, or you could throw on a pair of sandals or sneakers and wear it casually. So you might also want to think about maybe some easy dresses for the fall that you could just add a little cardigan if you got chilly. That might be a good way to go. I don't see any skirts on here, but I don't know if that's because you don't love skirts skirts, or you just weren't looking at them.
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Member 5
Wasn't looking at them. And. And so now I want to go out and find a skirt that works for my body and then a top so can, like, inspire me for what to look for, if you will.
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Coaching Member
Okay. I think a basic, a line skirt is going to be universally flattering, but let's see what appeals to your style preferences, and then we can figure out how to make that work. Work for your proportions and your shape and all of those things. And you have some feminine elements to your style a little bit. Right. So that might make sense.
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Member 5
I do, and I'm finding I'm leaning into it like that. You know, you inspired me. After the swimsuit edition, I'm looking for scarves now, and that one that you're looking at I just ordered to wear in my hair for my, my upcoming trip next week.
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Coaching Member
Oh, very fun. Yeah. So it might even just be little accessories, which, again, you could wear. This would look so chic to the office. Also, you could put it in your hair for, you know, more casual, fun weekend look. But you're talking like, winery and going out with your husband and stuff. So I'm like, you might need a few feminine, maybe some skirts or dresses that will just be really easy and again, work nicely with all the tops that you have. Yeah. So the more you can stay in the realm of your color palette, the easier it'll be for everything to mix and match. So I would definitely keep this in mind, but you're welcome to expand or just say, I really want to pick a couple of colors from here to focus in on for the fall. Whatever feels good for you.
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Member 5
Okay, good. Thank you.
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Coaching Member
Yeah, you're welcome. I'm excited to see what you come up with. And feel free to share your shopping list and we can look at if there may be or any is anything else missing. And if that feels like it's going to be complete.
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Member 5
Okay. Awesome. Thank you.
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Coaching Member
Oh, yeah. You're welcome. Okay, Carrie, I've got your question next on the list. Hi. Hey. How are you?
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Member 4
Good.
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Coaching Member
Sorry.
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Member 3
Hiding in a different location today.
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Coaching Member
Oh, no worries. Yeah.
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Member 3
So anyways, here I am.
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Coaching Member
Okay. Hi. So you have a question about belts? Yeah. Also a pair of linen pants that are in your collection. So we can start and look at the belt first. You said you only have one. You sent me some pictures of it, so I can have.
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Member 3
Yeah, I just wear belts. And I, I, I feel like I don't have, like, a very defined waist, and so I don't need them functionally. They're not a thing I need because my pants don't tend to fall down. But I think as an accessory, it would be a nice thing for building outfits. And so I, you know, the one I have is not, I mean, like I said, I have never, ever worn it. I just bought it one day being like, I should have a belt. So, yeah, so many thoughts on that. And I thought maybe that goes hand in hand with the pant, like where the pant is hitting me on in the waist. And anyways, that's how it all came together.
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Coaching Member
Yes. This is a great question. And I, I think it's always nice to have some good staple pieces, like a belt or two, just when you want make your look feel a little bit more finished or like you said, if you want to change the read of it a little bit. Because I think part of what you can do with belts is using color to change the proportions and where the eye goes. So let me just share the photos that you sent really quick. And I also have your color palette pulled up, and I think it'll be helpful to look at all of this together. And so with the belt that you have, and I'm curious why you don't normally find yourself reaching for it. Is it just you don't really think to accessorize with it, or is it not your favorite for some reason?
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Member 3
Yeah, I think I just don't know what to do with them. And like I said, I like my. I don't need them. I have like a. No, not a defined waist. And so that's kind of an area where, if anything, my pants are tighter in that area, so I can kind of get away with not needing it. And so I just don't know what to do with them. This. And this was not an intentional outfit. I just tossed it on so you could see what it looked like.
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Coaching Member
Yes. It's judgment free. And also, I think you inspired me with the ivory top today. I just realized that you had posted all of those white tees that you have in the group, but I just noticed we are matching. I know.
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Member 3
I was actually loving you.
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Coaching Member
I got to add that to the collection. Yes. So the first thing I'll say is I. This is a good neutral. Right. So it's going to work with a lot of things in your wardrobe. That said, is it your best neutral? I don't know. It has a lot of warmth to it. And I feel like, especially with the outfit that you just tried it on with, the eye goes right to the middle because it's such a stark difference between all the other colors that you're wearing. So I might like to see you personally carry in something that's maybe a little bit softer, maybe more closely related to your hair color almost in one of your casual neutrals, one of these kind of beige or even taupey colors, I think could be really nice. Or if you wanted to do like more of a chocolate brown that's a little bit cooler versus the warm, that could be a better choice in terms of color. Now, what I will say, too, is like, the thing I was going to say about belts with color is if the belt is. Is matching the bottom that you have, it's not going to interrupt the proportions or if it matches more of the top that you have, it can elongate through your waist a little bit. So that's just something to keep in mind that if you're matching it to your top or your bottom, that's really where you're going to get to play around with the proportions in the belts that you choose a little bit. Or again, if you had kind of a softer color, it's just going to create some nice repetition between your hair color and. And just kind of keep the eye moving up and down a. So if you wanted to try other colors, I'd probably recommend something in this family for you. Or you could do, you know, maybe one of your other dark neutrals. Like a black belt, I think is really classic, especially if you had. If it had, like, some silver gold detailing in the buckle, I think that could be really elegant for you. The other nice thing with a belt is it can create the illusion of a waist, especially if you're wearing it with pieces that are a little bit more oversized. So if you had kind of a loose, flowy dress dress, and then you belt it at the waist, it's going to create the look of some nice definition for you there. If the fabric is kind of more flowy above and below the belt, it's like, I see what you're saying here about, like, your waist is a little bit more straight on the side, so it doesn't really necessarily enhance that here. But again, this was kind of just an outfit you were trying on for funsies. But I do like the width of the belt for you. I think you could do this or something narrower. I probably wouldn't go too oversized. That's going to be a really bold look for you, and I don't know if that's going to be as fitting for your personal style. So I would say this or maybe even three quarters of that width would be really nice. And again, like, just because it's such a dark color, it really just draws the eye right there to the middle.
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Member 3
Yeah, I would never wear this.
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Coaching Member
I heard you when you said you were just trying it on with stuff for the purposes of the pictures. But again, like, if it was. Was a lighter color, I think that would just work really nicely with. For you with this. So if you're. If you're looking to expand your collection, I'm convincing myself more and more that something in one of these colors would probably be a really nice choice. Okay. And then I would love to see you try this with some dresses too, because I know you have some great dresses in your closet, and I think that would just kind of help Give you a little bit more style to those looks too. And you could play around with that a little bit. And see, even this time of year.
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Member 3
It'S okay to have it land a little high because, I mean, I think that's where like it like the. If my pants are more comfortable in that, like higher waisted. I don't know if it's higher waisted, loaded, but my waist being a little closer to my boobs. I don't know what else to say. It's okay to put it the belt in your natural waist if it's. I don't know.
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Coaching Member
Yeah, I. I think this is probably like a sweet spot for you. I wouldn't go too high because you don't want it to make like a shelf under your breast. So I think this is probably the perfect spot on your waist. And I think proportionally this is working really nicely for you. I think this is a great outfit. Other than just that the color is so different. It just my eyes kind of getting stuck there. So that's. That's the only thing. And then I know that you wanted to look at these pants too, and I think this is almost like you said, getting a little bit high and it's kind of creating that shelf effect that you don't want. So I don't know if you have some room to like pull them down maybe an inch or a half inch. Even my creeping up there, I get.
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Member 3
Them to like throw on over a swimsuit at the pool or something. Like they're not really. But then they're so comfortable that I'm like, maybe I could just throw them on today. So it's one of those danger zones where I'm like, oh, well, you can.
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Coaching Member
And you also don't have to tuck in a top with them too, because then, right. Like if you had a top that just kind of came right to here, it would help bring the proportions back down where you want them to be. So. Yeah. Yeah. If they're not staying put for you, I think I would try the different tops that you're wearing them with. And also like you said with a bathing suit, I think this would be cuter too. This is such a stark color contrast for you too, the white and black. Again, it's hard to say because I don't know that you would actually style it with this exact top. Maybe you would. I would encourage you to try something a little bit darker. But yeah, I think they're a great pant. And if they're comfortable, maybe it's just adjusting how you you're styling them what you're putting it with.
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Member 3
Okay.
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Coaching Member
Yeah.
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Member 3
They're sort of meant to be an alternative to shorts because I don't love wearing shorts, so I thought a little easier.
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Coaching Member
And remember to like. Color is so important because if you had these pants on with any of your formal neutral, like your dark neutrals, you're not going to get that harsh line right there. Like you're not your eyes not immediately going to go to that spot.
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Member 3
Yep.
- [32:49]
Coaching Member
It's just going to blend a lot more seamlessly. So I think it's going to be sorry. Important to do maybe more of a monochromatic with these pants in general. Even just.
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Member 3
I actually did wear them one day to the children's museum with like a darker. Had a navy denim type tank top and it definitely looked better.
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Coaching Member
Yeah.
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Member 3
Felt a little like hiked up.
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Coaching Member
So you might want to try things that are not tucked into them them. I think that would also really help too.
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Member 3
That's a great idea. Okay, thanks.
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Coaching Member
Okay. Yeah, you're welcome. And you can always throw a jacket on over it too, once the weather gets cooler and that'll help also. So lots of things you can do with those. But. Awesome. All right, let me know if you end up adding to your belt collection. Okay, I will.
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Member 2
Thank you.
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Coaching Member
Come across. Yes, you're welcome. Even this time of year, if you wanted lighter colors, you could do like a raffia kind of. If you wanted something a little bit more summery, beachy even then you could kind of find like that lighter beige option.
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Member 3
Yeah, very fun. Okay, thanks.
- [33:48]
Coaching Member
Okay, you're welcome. All right, well, I think we got to everybody. There was a lot happening in the comments, so I'm gonna look forward to checking that out later and we'll connect in the group in the meantime. All right, have a good weekend. We'll talk soon.
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Heather Riggs
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