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How To Elevate Your Style If You Have "Nothing To Wear" · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadigal Land Always was, Always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land Paychecks. I'm Al and I'm Zal
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  Speaker 1: and this is two broat chicks to show that she
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  Speaker 1: has life lessons and tips to help make you rich
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  Speaker 1: in life. And today we're chatting how to elevate your
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  Speaker 1: look and your style for when you feel that you
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  Speaker 1: have in quotes, nothing to wear, which been there. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk all the ways that don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: cost you more money that you can kind of have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a rebrand or refresh your look,
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  Speaker 1: your style, and even shop your wardrobe, which I think
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  Speaker 1: we forget. I've been talking to a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: lately that have been going through a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: style evolution, trying to find their look or their uniform
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  Speaker 1: as they say, as it were. That, Yeah, we thought
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  Speaker 1: it was time to do an episode on this because
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  Speaker 1: we definitely get a lot of questions about how to
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  Speaker 1: not only your style, but how to elevate it.
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  Speaker 2: Especially if you feel like you're just wearing the same
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  Speaker 2: things over and over and that's not fulfilling to you exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get into it, sal what is your
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  Speaker 1: obsession of the week.
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  Speaker 2: My obsession of the week is the Lelo and Stitch
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  Speaker 2: live action. So we went to the movies and saw
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  Speaker 2: this together, and I am typically a I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I have feelings about live action remakes of Disney movies.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them I absolutely love. Some of them I
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  Speaker 3: do think have been a bit of a miss.
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  Speaker 2: And I do think that the Lelo and Stitch remake
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  Speaker 2: is a success.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I think because they kept it pretty close to the
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  Speaker 2: original storyline. They didn't diverge too much from that, so
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  Speaker 2: it still had a lot of the same humor and
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  Speaker 2: magic and whimsy that we all know and love from
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  Speaker 2: the original.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously it was shot.
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  Speaker 2: In hall where the movie is based, and it was
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  Speaker 2: so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I definitely think that's an easy watch for your
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  Speaker 2: next date.
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  Speaker 3: Night or like chick flicks with your friends.
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  Speaker 1: Who what would you give it out of ten?
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  Speaker 3: Out of ten? I would give it a solid seven
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  Speaker 3: and a half.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good rating. Wow, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, Okay, my obsession of the week, all right,
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  Speaker 1: My obsession of the week is shopping for fun aka
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  Speaker 1: the shoppies. Oh yeah, yes, so I know we've also
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  Speaker 1: just said this episode is not about going shopping, but
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  Speaker 1: this is my obsession. It's their friend. It's fine, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me have a think. So I came across is
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  Speaker 1: from a TikTok that was referencing a Mary Claire podcast
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  Speaker 1: where the host said the urge to go shopping should
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  Speaker 1: be called the shoppies. I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's cute.
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  Speaker 1: I love this. We need to rebrand that urge to
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  Speaker 1: go shopping as I've got the shoppies. Yeah, it's like
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  Speaker 1: the Zoomies, but for shopping specifically. And then I was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: where do people get the shoppies? What stores give you
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  Speaker 1: the shoppies the most? It's over lists Number one Aldi
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  Speaker 1: specifically the special Buyers. Yeah, that middle section, but also
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  Speaker 1: some of their lollies, like the hot chocolates and the biscuits. Ye,
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  Speaker 1: the shoppies. Another one the Reject Shop. The Reject Shop
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  Speaker 1: has been slaying in their home Whar's department lately, also
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  Speaker 1: in their lollies, and also in their beauty section. They
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  Speaker 1: have like Bondai sands tan for like ten Bucks Chemist Warehouse.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely the shoppy yellow tickets send me into a frenzy.
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  Speaker 1: This one potentially the most detrimental the minis section of
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  Speaker 1: Sephora and Mecca. Yeah, that is peak shoppies. Definitely peak
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  Speaker 1: shoppies and last, but not least, at number one of
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  Speaker 1: shops that give you the shoppies. Do you want to guess?
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  Speaker 3: Should we do the three two one?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Ready? Three two one kmart?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? You walk into cam up for one thing, you
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  Speaker 1: walk out with ten and you're like, how do we
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  Speaker 1: get here? You blackout? That's not your fault because you
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  Speaker 1: know what you had, the shoppies. Yeah. And on that note,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into how to elevate your wardrobe on a
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  Speaker 1: budge wort whish Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: According to a twenty twenty four report by at home
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  Speaker 1: styling service stitch Fix, over half of their clients said
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  Speaker 1: they felt mentally overwhelmed or stressed by deciding what to wear.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Chiong explores why we feel this way in her
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  Speaker 1: recent book Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear? Which
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  Speaker 1: this is on my TBR Immediately it ultimately traces back
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  Speaker 1: to how we think about shopping. She says, I think
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  Speaker 1: we struggle because we have so many options, but we
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  Speaker 1: didn't really know where to begin, she told Refinery twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine in an interview in the Kind in this a
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  Speaker 1: most respectful way, I don't think most people actually know
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  Speaker 1: how to shop for fashion. We weren't taught how. Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: it was reported that a recent study found that sixty
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  Speaker 1: one percent of Americans admitted to struggling to find something
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  Speaker 1: to wear even with a full closet, and the average
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  Speaker 1: person experiences wardrobe panic thirty six times per year. I
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  Speaker 1: would per week. I would go as fard to say
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  Speaker 1: that I experienced wardrobe panic thirty six times per month,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm aware that there's predominantly thirty to thirty one
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  Speaker 1: days in a month. I say what I say, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the math is mathing. So we're going to break down
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  Speaker 1: our tips on how to get out of the headspace
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  Speaker 1: if I have nothing to wear and elevate your style,
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  Speaker 1: your look, and your wardrobe in a budget friendly way.
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  Speaker 1: Number one document, Document document. If you always feel like
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  Speaker 1: you have nothing to wear, look again. According to Levi's
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  Speaker 1: industry research, thirty percent of Ossie's currently own between fifty
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  Speaker 1: to one hundred and fifty pieces of clothing. Of all
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  Speaker 1: the clothes we own, only fifty five percent are being
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  Speaker 1: worn regularly. That means nearly half of Australian's wardrobes are
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  Speaker 1: going unworn. So it just like makes me think of
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  Speaker 1: all the times you go into your wardrobe and I
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  Speaker 1: think this is probably one of the most relatable things
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  Speaker 1: ever and you find something down behind like your draws
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  Speaker 1: or under your bed and you're like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I even had that. Yeah, he's out of sight, out
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  Speaker 1: of mind, or you know, you put it under your
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  Speaker 1: bed because it's in the winter wardrobe and then you
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  Speaker 1: pull it out and you're.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh, I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And so the key here is simple, and it
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  Speaker 1: is to document your wardrobe. So Andrea Chiong in her
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  Speaker 1: book Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear starts her
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  Speaker 1: book with a wardrobe audit, and this makes complete sense.
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  Speaker 1: It's to help you figure out what clothes you own
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  Speaker 1: and what clothes you actually like to wear, because oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: we hang on to clothes for oh, maybe i'll wear
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  Speaker 1: this to a wedding. There's no wedding. You're not invited
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  Speaker 1: to a wedding.
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  Speaker 3: The wedding doesn't exist, the phantom wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, or I'll wear this where my body changes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and there's the term, you know, skinny clothes that we
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  Speaker 1: hang on or I'll wear these want to lose weight,
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  Speaker 1: and you know they're just a dirty reminder of making
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  Speaker 1: you feel bad about yourself. And more importantly, this wardrobe
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  Speaker 1: audit is about finding the clothes that you don't wear
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  Speaker 1: and then analyzing it and whether they're from rear con
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  Speaker 1: retailers or certain styles or certain colors, and finding the
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  Speaker 1: similarities in the wardrobe udit of what you like and
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  Speaker 1: what you don't like. And she continues to say, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you're leaving the house, to take a photo in the mirror,
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  Speaker 1: save it on your phone, and once you've got about
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  Speaker 1: eight outfits, that's your capsule wardrobe. Count how many times
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  Speaker 1: you can mix a match from what you already have.
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  Speaker 1: I love this idea, but the one thing that I
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  Speaker 1: think is difficult with that is a girl's photo album
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  Speaker 1: is already a crazy place. Yes, you know, literally, whenever
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a photo in my photo album,
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  Speaker 1: I can never find the photo on my photo album.
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  Speaker 1: So this is where we have an app recommendation to
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  Speaker 1: document your wardrobe so that you always have something to
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  Speaker 1: wear and you never have nothing to wear. And it's
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  Speaker 1: called the Wearing app. We were introduced to this about
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  Speaker 1: a year ago when we had Gem Diamond on the show,
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  Speaker 1: and it's spelled wh e RNG And it is like
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  Speaker 1: the Hannah Montana wardrobe, the Clueless Share wardrobe, where you
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  Speaker 1: basically put your wardrobe, scan it, take photos, pull it
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  Speaker 1: from the internet image and put it into the app,
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  Speaker 1: and you basically have a digital wardrobe to choose from. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and what you can do with this is not only
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  Speaker 1: does it save outfits that you like, but it helps
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  Speaker 1: to generate future outfit ideas for you with the randomized
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  Speaker 1: feature that you can put in top bottom shoes. Click
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  Speaker 1: random and it'll scroll through. And if you don't like
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  Speaker 1: the shoes, you can keep changing it. If you want
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  Speaker 1: it to be a dressed instead, you can change it
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  Speaker 1: to one item and scroll through. And this app is
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  Speaker 1: not only great for every day but great for traveling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah amazing. I use this every day in Europe to
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  Speaker 1: be like, what's in my suitcase? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: And it also means that you're only packing things that
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  Speaker 2: will work together and that you will wear.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, You're not going to be like, what's this random too?
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  Speaker 3: Too doing?
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  Speaker 1: In here? I can't go with anything else one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: And you can create looks and so you put certain
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  Speaker 1: items together like those looks on Pinterest, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: love it. And it's also free and it's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's so file like.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's practical, but it's also really fun.
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  Speaker 1: And it all means you're going to outfit repeat more
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  Speaker 1: without feeling like you're outfit repeating.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And there is still a stigma around outfit repeating.
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  Speaker 2: Forty one percent of women aged between eighteen and twenty
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  Speaker 2: five feel pressure to wear a different outfit every time
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  Speaker 2: they go out, so on average, clothes are only worn
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  Speaker 2: seven to ten times before they're discarded. What yeah, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And this mindset is definitely influenced by capitalism, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there is no reason why we shouldn't be rewaring our clothes.
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  Speaker 2: This is a mindset that we have been taught that
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  Speaker 2: if you do rewar the same outfit over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: it's embarrassing. Maybe you don't have enough money to buy
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  Speaker 2: something new, or you're not.
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  Speaker 3: In fashion, you're not on top of the latest trends.
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  Speaker 2: These are all pieces of propaganda to make us buy
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  Speaker 2: more clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Jolly Malcolm, who is just a fashion icon
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  Speaker 1: and icon in general, we had her on the show
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  Speaker 1: at the start of the year, talking about how to
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  Speaker 1: be stylish instead of trendy. She actually uploaded a TikTok
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  Speaker 1: where she was at a work event and someone had
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  Speaker 1: come up to her and was like, Oh, you were
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  Speaker 1: wearing that last time I saw you, And she called
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  Speaker 1: it out and was like, Oh, we're really still in
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  Speaker 1: the age where we're not re wearing our clothes. And
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  Speaker 1: I also think what really changed my perspective on this
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  Speaker 1: growing up because in my early twenties, absolutely I had
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  Speaker 1: the same thing of being like, but I wore this
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  Speaker 1: to Sarah's party, so I can't wear this to Britney's,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And again it is this like insecurity that
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  Speaker 1: gets pushed to women, especially being like they all know
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  Speaker 1: you're a failure and you're ugly if you don't wear
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  Speaker 1: sa there. Yeah. But then I also think, and this
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  Speaker 1: is a great way to kind of restructure it in
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  Speaker 1: your brain if you do feel a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: insecurity or nervousness to re wear certain things, is that
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  Speaker 1: you're not re wearing an outfit it's iconic. Like think
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  Speaker 1: of Penny Lane, Yeah, and how she has a jacket,
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  Speaker 1: Like when you think about like really iconic characters. They
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  Speaker 1: have their uniform, they have their look, and that is
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  Speaker 1: why I love rewaring it because I'm like, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: my blazer that I wear literally every fucking day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's my style uniform.
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  Speaker 1: That's my coat, that's my thing that I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's my character default. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love that because I do think that romanticizing it
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  Speaker 2: and thinking about it in that positive way is how
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  Speaker 2: we can combat this otherwise negative connotation that we have
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  Speaker 2: been taught around rewaring our clothes, because in another study,
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  Speaker 2: also by stitch Fix, they found that forty four percent
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  Speaker 2: of people say they tire of their clothes just after
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  Speaker 2: six wears.
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  Speaker 1: Like this is why people need to buy vintage, because
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  Speaker 1: you you love it so much more if you can't
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  Speaker 1: get it again. Yeah you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so true, Like you you can't, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: that same sense.
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  Speaker 3: Of like that it's replaceable because it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Like you won't be able to find anything more. And
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  Speaker 2: also took a little bit more effort. Yeah, you might
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  Speaker 2: have more of memory and nostalgia associated with it, but
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  Speaker 2: as well, often we're not re wearing clothes in our
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  Speaker 2: wardrobes because we don't identify with them anymore.
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  Speaker 3: According to fashion.
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  Speaker 2: Psychologist Sequela Forbes Bell, we can categorize our clothes into
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  Speaker 2: three main types in our wardrobe. So the first type
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  Speaker 2: continuing identity. These are the clothes that relate to our
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  Speaker 2: current self. The second one transitional identity. These are the
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  Speaker 2: clothes that bridge the gap between who we are and
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  Speaker 2: who we want to be.
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  Speaker 3: And then the third category.
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  Speaker 2: Is discontinued identity, and these are the clothes that no
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  Speaker 2: longer represent who we are, which I also think could
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  Speaker 2: be a helpful way to categorize your clothes when you're
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  Speaker 2: doing the order that you mentioned before, because I think
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  Speaker 2: that the majority of our clothes should represent that first category,
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  Speaker 2: the continuing identity, and that's something that when you do
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  Speaker 2: figure out your personal style won't change too much, and
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  Speaker 2: when you do figure out what your style uniform is
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't change too much. I think it's okay if we
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  Speaker 2: play with trends and get creative and try new things,
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  Speaker 2: but your personal identity and your personal style shouldn't really
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  Speaker 2: be shifting with the seasons. There should be kind of
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  Speaker 2: like a constant through that.
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  Speaker 1: What was the third one called again.
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  Speaker 2: That one is discontinued identity, discontinued identity.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what I think as well, So many
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  Speaker 1: trends would end up in the discontinued identity. And again
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  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily anyone's fault either, because that's what gets
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  Speaker 1: pushed when you look at clean girl, tomato girl, vanilla girl,
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  Speaker 1: espresso hot chocolate sprinkles girl, like, the discontinued identities are
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  Speaker 1: the trend. Yeah, So that's why it's really important to
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  Speaker 1: kind of look at trends and like we said, play
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  Speaker 1: around with them, have fun, but you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: absorb every single new identity that gets pushed.
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  Speaker 2: And I also think it's important to do these audits
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  Speaker 2: because we do change. So even if there was something
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  Speaker 2: that you did relate to genuinely at the time when
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  Speaker 2: you bought it, that's not always going to be the case,
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  Speaker 2: or you might not even need it. Like think about
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  Speaker 2: that pencil skirt you bought for your first corporate job
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  Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen, Like, you can let her go, you
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  Speaker 2: can let her free.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Your twenties is when you're supposed to be playing around
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  Speaker 1: with this, you know, your twenties is when you play
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  Speaker 1: around with fashion and what you like and what you
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  Speaker 1: don't like and the things that I was wearing when
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  Speaker 1: I was twenty is absolutely not the things that I'm
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  Speaker 1: wearing now. Like, my fashion evolution and my style identity
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  Speaker 1: has evolved and grown up with me as I've grown up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that's okay for that to change, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that you know, for you or
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  Speaker 2: for us, and for a lot of people, like your
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  Speaker 2: style personality has been consistent for the last you know,
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  Speaker 2: like five to six years, and so it's once you've
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  Speaker 2: become familiar with who that person is and what you
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  Speaker 2: want to represent with your fashion, then that's when you
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  Speaker 2: have the confidence to rewear your outfits. The truth is,
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  Speaker 2: when you re wear your outfits, no one cares, No
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  Speaker 2: one notices, and if they do, it's a reflection on them,
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  Speaker 2: not on you. And also, re wearing your clothes is fun.
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  Speaker 1: I was just about to say, I think people are
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  Speaker 1: happier when they re wear their clothes. I've got no
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  Speaker 1: scientific statistic to back it up, but I think if
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  Speaker 1: you can get a dopamine hit from re wearing your
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  Speaker 1: clothes rather than buying a new outfit, you're ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And it challenges you to actually be a bit more
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  Speaker 2: creative and shop within your wardrobe and restyle things. And
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  Speaker 2: there was a quote that I really loved. This is
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  Speaker 2: from Lauren Bravo, and she writes in How to Break
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  Speaker 2: Up with Fast Fashion about outfit repeating and shopping from
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  Speaker 2: within your wardrobe. Think of it like a Ready Steady
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  Speaker 2: Cook bag of clothes. When we're forced to limit ourselves
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  Speaker 2: to the same outfits, we get more imaginative and that
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  Speaker 2: creativity is satisfying, which in turn helps dampen the urge
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  Speaker 2: to keep shopping.
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  Speaker 3: Who didn't love Ready Steady Cook love?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, moving on to number two. The reason
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  Speaker 1: you hate your outfit but don't know why is because
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  Speaker 1: you aren't using the rule of thirds. So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what this was when I found this in our
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  Speaker 1: research for this episode, but realized I have been doing
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  Speaker 1: this and on all the outfits I really like, like that,
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  Speaker 1: I rewear that, I'm like, yep, remember that one pulled
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  Speaker 1: it in the rotation. It follows this rule, And all
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  Speaker 1: the outfits that I've been like, noh, I hate that.
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  Speaker 1: It's because it doesn't. So your outfit isn't styled in halves,
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  Speaker 1: it's styled in thirds, but it's not broken up into
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  Speaker 1: three parts. The outfit becomes more stylish when it's two
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  Speaker 1: thirds verse one third. So your outfit should break either
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  Speaker 1: one third of the way from your head to your
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  Speaker 1: feet or two thirds of the way. So for example,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: if you're wearing a pair of jeans and a top,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: your blazer is going to take up two thirds of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the outfit. And that's why, like an oversized blazer looks
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: so stylish because you've got the two thirds versus the
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  Speaker 1: one third, which is like the bottom of your pants
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  Speaker 1: and your shoes. Or you could use this with colors,
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  Speaker 1: so you would have two thirds of your outfit being
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  Speaker 1: one color and one third of your outfit being another color.
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  Speaker 1: Like this could look like an oversized knit with a
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  Speaker 1: maxi skirt that's a different color, or a mini dress
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  Speaker 1: that's taking up two thirds versus a pair of knee
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  Speaker 1: high boots that's taking up one third. And once I
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  Speaker 1: saw the examples of this, I was like, my mind
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  Speaker 1: is blown, and it makes so much sense because you're
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  Speaker 1: not cutting your body in half.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and it feels more intentional.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but it looks like
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  Speaker 2: you've put more effort and you're not just wearing clothes,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: but you've styled them, yeah, which I think is part
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  Speaker 2: of the equation here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Or even if you're wearing like a high waisted
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  Speaker 1: pair of pants and then you know you've got like
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a little crop tup going on on the top. You've
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  Speaker 1: got the two thirds with the high waisted pants and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the one third with the little top. Yeah. That I'm like, Fuck,
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  Speaker 1: how did no one tell us this needs me a
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  Speaker 1: unit in school?
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  Speaker 3: Place fractions with this?
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  Speaker 1: Put me in. Put me in the Department of education books.
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  Speaker 1: I've got some thoughts. Moving on to tones and colors,
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  Speaker 1: take us aways out.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like color theory and color analysis has really
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  Speaker 2: been a buzz.
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  Speaker 3: Topic over the last and few years.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: While it has been a buzz topics, it is certainly
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  Speaker 2: not new. And colors that look good together is called
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: color harmony, and complementary colors is something that we talk
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  Speaker 2: about a lot in fashion, and this refers to two
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  Speaker 2: colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason that complementary colors look so good together
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  Speaker 2: is because because they.
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  Speaker 3: Are on opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Sides, they provide a high contrast, which makes the colors
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: look more vibrant, but also then make the compliment each other,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is really interesting. Some examples of complementary
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  Speaker 2: colors that you can play with include blue and orange,
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  Speaker 2: red and green.
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  Speaker 3: And also yellow and purple.
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  Speaker 2: Another popular color combination formula is the color triad, and
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: this involves styling three colors that are evenly spaced on
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  Speaker 2: the color wheel, which can also create a vibrant and
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: balanced color palette. Maxine Wild is a content creator who
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  Speaker 2: does this really well. She shares a lot of content
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  Speaker 2: and tutorials on how to use the color wheel to
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  Speaker 2: experiment with different color combinations together. And again, like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty sure I've seen her do like a yellow and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: purple and did it incredibly shit.
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  Speaker 1: She did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like a green and a red, which
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: typically I would have been like, it's giving chrismas.
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  Speaker 3: But definitely check out her content.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: But I do think that color theory and having a
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: bit of a knowledge of that can help you pull
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  Speaker 2: together pieces in your wardrobe that you may not have
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: thought went together.
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  Speaker 1: What I really loved about colors when we were doing
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the research for this episode was the fact that while
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  Speaker 1: you can combine different colors, you can't combine different tones.
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  Speaker 1: So the number one mistake people are making when they're
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: experimenting with color and fashion and new styles and they're
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: trying to elevate their wardrobe is they're mixing the wrong tones.
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  Speaker 1: So while you can mix blue and brown, if they're
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: not the matching tone, that's why it looks bad. So
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: let's say, for example, you're wearing an all white outfit,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: it needs to be all white warm tones. If you
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: have warm tones and cool tones, that's where you're getting
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a disconnection. And it's the same with even prints. You
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: can get warm tone leopard print and cool tone leopard print.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And if you're wearing a warm tone leopard print dress
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: with a cool toned jacket, that's where you're getting a disconnection. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And that blew my mind. And when I looked at
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: my wardrobe, I realized how most of it is warm tone.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And that's in an accident, But it's because I've matched
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it all together that I've.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Been like, yeah, you can see the through line.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And whenever they haven't, Like whenever I've maybe styled
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a red top with a red skirt and I've looked
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: at it and I've been like, why does this look bad?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And I can't understand why, and you think, oh, they've
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: got to be the same shade. They don't have to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: be the same shade, they have to be the same tone.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's like one of the red pieces could
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: be throwing a little bit more purply yep blue, and
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: then the other one is throwing a little bit more
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of an orange orange red.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Mind blown, mind blown, mind blown, because so often
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I was like, you can't even wear the same colors
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: with the same colors, yeah, because they don't they don't match. Yeah,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: but they do match. They just have to be the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: same tone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So if you're a cool tone in your skin girl,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you want to be trying to get colors that are
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: cool toned so that you can mix and match them
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: in your wardrobe. If you're a neutral girlie, you can
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: wear both, but I would highly recommend choosing one because
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that means that your wardrobe is going to be more cohesive.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And if you're a warm term girlly, get warm term clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Let's move on to the devil is in the details. Accessorize, bitch.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: We're talking.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: We're talking belts, jewelry. We're talking belts and jewelry. Your
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: outfit isn't boring, You're just not accessorizing. Literally, we have
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: heard this time and time again. I feel like, especially recently,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: like this is a mantra. Twenty twenty five is the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: year of accessories. Yeah, and it should have always been
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: that way, because I do think that it is one
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: of the easiest ways to elevate an outfit when you
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: feel like you have nothing to wear or you feel
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: tired of the outfits that you have been re wearing.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: So we both love accessories. We've always been a huge
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: fan of accessories. We're going to share our cool girl
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  Speaker 2: accessories brands.
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  Speaker 1: So for bags and belts, The Lair They're a small brand,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: their belts are honestly some of the best quality belts
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: We've had to ask for years and literally the go
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to to just add a little bit of gst, a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: bit of a garnish onto an outfit. Another brand who
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: does have great belts but also great bags is Naked Vice.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: They always have good stuff. Whenever I'm on their website,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, love ten out of ten and obviously
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Poppy Listman. She's an iconic Australian brand and absolutely just
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: has so much personality in her pieces and in her bag.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: She had a massive flare a couple of years ago,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: but I like highly urge people to check out her
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: latest stuff really good and also really good for sunglasses.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And then last but not least, is really on. You've
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: very likely seen the Croissant bag that went viral, but
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: again check out her other pieces. Still really amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obsessed.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: And then for bling, we've got Mountain and Moon. They're
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: very romantic, beautiful pieces.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Statement piece das meant pieces. If you want people to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: stop you on the street and say where are your
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: earrings from? Go get them from Mountain Moon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so true.
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  Speaker 2: Also, Cammi Citran another really cool brand if you're a
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: silver girlie. They have a lot of gold and silver,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: but again very unique pieces that you won't be able
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: to find elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: And then Endless and Co.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're a small brand that reached out to us
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and we absolutely loved so much. They're also waterproof and yeah,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a great spot to start if you're also wanting to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: kind of experiment with statement jewelry a little bit more.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: That's probably like the gateway gateway cool girl jewelry brand.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I would say that's your butter knife, that's your butter
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: knife of cool girl jewelry. No, I love that. Yeah, Okay,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And last, but not least, we're gonna quick fire our
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: way through this because I think it can be a
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: bit luxury and a bit boring, and we know this, yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: but it's a good reminder that if you want to
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  Speaker 1: elevate your look and you want to elevate your wardrobe,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: then take care of your clothes. And I'm so fucking
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: guilty of this. So often we just don't take we
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  Speaker 1: don't read the label. We don't read the damn label
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that's telling us how to take care of our clothes.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: And then we're like, oh shit, quality, they shrunk in
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the wash, and.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: It's like killing all this and that it's like, well,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: maybe read.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: The label exactly. I ruined like my favorite blazer by
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: putting it in the wash, which like, yeah, I fucking
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: know how obvious that sounds, but it was in amount
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of other clothes that I didn't know.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Was he That's the worst thing I've had that happen
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: with a silk skirt.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know I was in there.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I didn't know.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I didn't know, and the wash and it came out
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and I was like no, but we digress.
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  Speaker 2: This is our cheat sheet on how to take care
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  Speaker 2: of your clothes. Number one washing cold water. Hot water
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: can break down the fibers and fade the colors of
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: your clothes most of the time. When you read the label,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: it will encourage you to wash with cold water because
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: it's gentler on most fabrics and just as effective for
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: cleaning your clothes. Two Air dry whenever possible. Heat from
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: dryers can shrink and fade your clothes and also weaken
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the fabrics. Certain fabrics need to be dried in particular
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: ways as well, which I didn't realize for a long time.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: So for example, cotton and wool items are best dried
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: laid down flat because that can help them keep their
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: shape as opposed to them being hung up, whereas denim
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: is best dried hung up to avoid shrinkage.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Number three use the correct clothes hangers. Wire hangers are
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: more likely to stretch your clothes, whereas like a padded
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: fabric or a wooden clothes hanger can help keep the
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: structure of your garment without stretching it out. And number
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: four storage, don't overpack your closet when you do.
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  Speaker 3: I guilty of this too.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: But don't overpack your closet because it can cause damage
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: to your clothes and wrinkle them, or they can get
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: moldy because they don't have.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Enough room to breathe. If you are storing.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Your clothes, which is what I have been doing with
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: my winter jackets, make sure that you store them in
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: breathable garment bags and also wash them before and get
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: them cleaned before you store them, because if you don't,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: any oils that are in the clothes or dirt or
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: anything can attract mold or.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Pests like moths and things like that. So there's your
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: cheat shape.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I love that and you know it as well. So
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: many items that we have that are supposed to be stylish.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: The silhouette of them is what we love. And so
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: when we don't wash them properly or take care of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: them properly and they lose that silhouette, that's when we
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: kind of lose the thing that we love about them
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the most, or the color. So maybe use that as
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: your motivation, Alex, because I'm so guilty of so many
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of these things because how you doing my washing. But again,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: if you want to keep your items for long, we
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: have to hang them out and we can't just put
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: them in a gorgeous washer dry That does it for us,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: No wash it dryer. I love my washer dry good Bundy's. Well.
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  Speaker 1: That is a wrap for today's episode. Also, feel free
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  Speaker 1: to leave a comment on Spotify for your favorite ways
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to elevate your wardrobe. Because we always love a little
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: bit of community interaction.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Vio, you're a smart bunch of chicks, I know, so
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening chicks and having us
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: in your ear holes.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: We love to be here. Thank you to m ik
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  Speaker 1: Made for making this episode of two broad Cheeks happen,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see you next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Bye bye bye